Becoming Alien (2012)
““Red Clay (testosterone-fumed),” she said, sprawled across the bow of a rental hydrofoil, “come ride to Gwyng-owned islands, archipelago most like Gwyng Home.”
The hydrofoil skimmed across ocean that had barely gotten salty since aliens cooked the water out of gas-giants. At the island, the dock had no groove-way ratchets for the boat, so we tied up with real ropes. The Gwyng island looked tropical, with artificial cliffs crumbling behind the houses and strips of pasture.
More relaxed t...han I’d ever seen her, Amber hummed and swayed in the driver’s seat as I put our bags on the roof of our borrowed car. She called me Mica, oo’ed and corrected herself, but my skull computer still caught glitter on my Academy name.
Black Amber, still swaying, drove the car slowly up a coral-graveled road, until a Holstein-colored pouch beast, bigger than a rhino, lumbered into the road, followed by two more pouch hosts and a smaller black and brown blood beast with ropy veins dangling from its neck like dewlaps.MoreLess
The hydrofoil skimmed across ocean that had barely gotten salty since aliens cooked the water out of gas-giants. At the island, the dock had no groove-way ratchets for the boat, so we tied up with real ropes. The Gwyng island looked tropical, with artificial cliffs crumbling behind the houses and strips of pasture.
More relaxed t...han I’d ever seen her, Amber hummed and swayed in the driver’s seat as I put our bags on the roof of our borrowed car. She called me Mica, oo’ed and corrected herself, but my skull computer still caught glitter on my Academy name.
Black Amber, still swaying, drove the car slowly up a coral-graveled road, until a Holstein-colored pouch beast, bigger than a rhino, lumbered into the road, followed by two more pouch hosts and a smaller black and brown blood beast with ropy veins dangling from its neck like dewlaps.MoreLess
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