"You can have the jar now." My voice is rough with lust.
She blinks as if waking up from her own daydream. "Of course, yes."
She stands and puts the tablet on the stool. Then she walks over the way I wanted her to before, but instead of grabbing my meq she holds out a hand for the jar. "That's quite a lot."
"Another difference between Honey and human for your notes." I place the jar in her hand. Then lick the spilled cum off my skin. She watches, and I'm almost tempted to offer it to her instead. But she doesn't need a drop to taste. She has an entire jar to do whatever she wants with. "What will you learn from that sample?"
"I can see if your semen has the same composition as a human man's. I can do a sperm count. I can see if your sperm is the same as a human's." Her words rapidly tumble out.
I pull up my pants and re-lace them, then I grab my shirt off the bed and pull that on too. She has all her samples now. There is no need for me to tempt her. No, I need to wait for her to return with more questions.
And then what?
I'm not sure. I don't know what I'm trying to achieve.
If it's not escape, is it finding a mate?
Is it finding out about humans? Though to what end, I'm not sure, as there is no one for me to tell.
Is it to gain their trust and help them with their colony?
"When I come back, I will bring photos of the things I see when using the microscope. That is the tool I use for looking at very tiny things."
I can always tell when the whisperer doesn't know what to tell me. Because it uses her words and her words make no sense. It seems as though the microscope is something they use. It's a technology I'm not familiar with. "I would like that…will you be able to show me the human equivalent?"
"I will definitely have some photos that I can show you of what is standard for humans." She puts the lid on the jar and adds it to the small collection of my body parts.
While I don't care about spilled blood and cum, I do care that she has them. I'm worried about what she'll find. Are we too different? Are Sabine and Edilk doomed before they have begun?
There is one important thing I haven't told Chloe. I don’t know how it's possible, but human women can trigger the rut and mating bond.
11
CHLOE
There's no conversation between me and the guards as we walk back to the colony. They seem to have spent the day beneath the tree playing cards as if they have no fear of the wildlife, despite the attack by what Tiril calls a screamer only a few days ago.
As we reach the gates, one of them turns to me. "0900 tomorrow?"
I don't know how to answer. I don't need to go back there tomorrow. I need to analyze what I have. Yet at the same time, I do want to see him. I want to make sure he's okay. No one is guarding him and he's locked in a cell overnight. Maybe they have cameras set up watching the demountable. What I should do is take some more equipment to the lab so I can work up there, and I can share more of what I find with him. But if I spend too much time there, will that make people suspicious?
"Actually, tomorrow I need to work on these samples. And I also need to gather what I need for my next lot of tests."
One soldier considers me for several seconds. "How did you take a blood sample?"
I smile at him. "I asked nicely. It's amazing what manners will get you."
The other man laughs. "You asked that big alien for some blood, and he said yeah?"
"It was a little more complicated than that, as I had to explain what a needle was, but he figured out how to use the toilet. He's not stupid." Which makes him more dangerous to the colony.
To me.
The first thing I do is go to the lab. I store some samples for future work. Then I begin running tests on his blood. As promised, I do look at it with the microscope and take some images. At first glance, it doesn't seem that much different to human blood. When I look at his skin cells, I don't find that much difference. The sample with the tattoo is different. Very different. As though the ink somehow changed his cells. That's going to require further study. I remember him saying it helped conduct the charge and I want to see how that works. I take a little of his cum and look at that through the microscope. There is nothing weird there either.
I don't know what I was hoping for when every animal I have looked at so far has on the surface been different, but under the microscope been very similar as though nature only has so many ways to put together blood and skin. He is also not the only native being to have the orange teeth. I remember seeing it on something else. I rake my teeth over my lip as I try to recall which specimen it was. At the time, no one cared, and the tests were to find out if it was an edible creature—it was—though we aren't sure about how to farm it.
I set up some tests that will need to run overnight. Then I pack up everything else and spend a little time searching for the orange teeth. I eventually find them. The creature's skeleton is also orange. Instead of calcium in their bones, it's something else. Maybe there isn't much calcium on this world. That couldbe a problem for humans. And if that's the case, we need to solve it soon, or will our bodies adapt so we too have orange teeth and orange bones?
