Rexx: Alien Adoption Agency #6 by Tasha Black

Author:Tasha Black [Black, Tasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 13th Story Press
Published: 2021-06-16T18:30:00+00:00

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Abigail

Abigail took a deep breath and desperately tried to convince herself not to scream.

Her own scream was totally unnecessary, everyone else was definitely making plenty of noise.

The animal that hit the floor was quickly followed by two more.

They were small and furry, and actually quite cute once she caught her breath and got a good look at them. If they hadn’t arrived so unexpectedly, she might have been glad to see them.

They looked almost like bunnies, but with webbed skin around their legs that allowed them to glide as they launched themselves from the floor to the tables, to the chairs.

As she tried to figure out what they were, dozens more were pouring out of the ceiling and ductwork. One dropped directly into the bowl in front of Earl King, splashing soup all over his shirt and eliciting a loud guffaw from his brother.

Harla stood and tried to run out of the car, but her way was blocked by other passengers and falling flying rabbits.

Near the back, Tilden had one cornered on a dining chair and was trying to reasonably convince it to hop into her purse.

The creature looked like it was giving it serious thought, but not ready to commit.

It wasn’t a half-bad idea, gathering them up. Abigail was certain they could do no good scampering and gliding around the train like this.

“Take him,” Rexx cried out of nowhere.

She turned and grabbed for Rio, who grabbed her back, chuckling.

Rexx launched himself immediately at Earl King, who had decided to make the creature in his soup pay for its insult by pulling a blaster on it.

“Whoa,” Earl yelped as he hit the ground under three hundred pounds of muscular alien.

“Give me that thing,” Rexx growled.

“My blaster,” Earl said sadly, as Rexx took it away.

“You really think it’s a good idea to blast a hole in the side of an underwater train?” Rexx asked him.

Earl at least had the good grace to look embarrassed.

Another little rabbit thing landed on his head, and he got a horrified look on his face and scrabbled to get it off. Beside him, Duke only laughed harder.

But the bunny only blithely leapt onto one of the nearby tables, where he sniffed listlessly at the crackers and then scooped a hunk of chicken out of the soup, licking its chops.

“Everyone, listen,” Abigail shouted in her most bell-clear teacher voice.

Heads snapped up as if they were on strings.

“We all had a bit of a scare,” she announced. “But these little critters are obviously not a danger to anyone. So, we’re going to gather these animals up, gently, and Lanny is going to find a space on this train where we can take them. Use your bags, your pockets, a tablecloth, whatever you have, and start scooping them up.”

Everyone began looking around for ways to transport the bunny-things.

“Nice,” Rexx told her, his smile admiring.

As the little animals were rounded up from the dining car, Abigail moved into the next car toward the engine room.

There were no creatures.

She went back through the dining car chaos to the next car closer to the back.

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