She nodded."Good.That brings me comfort."
"Why?"
"Because if you are watching over me, then the others all have their own Rhimodian guard.I feel that they all are safe, wherever they are."
"We vowed to keep them safe.They will not be harmed on our watch."
"You're too kind."
"I am not."
"You're not?"
"I am not too kind.How does one be too kind?It makes no sense in language."
"It means that someone has done more than you expected them to do or has been nicer to you than you expected."
"Why do you not expect me to be nice?"
She chuckled."For speaking standard, you certainly do not know a lot of Terran slang terms."
"You have far too many slang terms."
"We likely do," she said.
"So this is the safe house,"Caoimhe said as her escape pod door opened.It was no kind of house she'd ever seen.Maybe she was just overwhelmed by the smell of the soot and sulfur in the air.The scent was absolutely pungent, but what could she do?It was the place.
And where they stood was nothing more than a flat piece of rock, next to a mountainous wall.There were no discernible fences or anything to protect the area.Just the rock face on the far side and the landing field.She started to cross to the nearest edge of the flat space to see exactly where they were.
It only took a few steps toward it for her to see that they were high up a mountain.Surrounded by more rock and jagged fields of stone.Everything was hard, and even the rocks themselves looked harsh and angry.Not the kind of rocks one could walk on without shoes.
No.This was a shoe place.Lots of shoes.Maybe even armor to get through those rocks if she were so inclined.
She saw no trees, just warm red glows in the sky in a few areas and the ever-present ash in the air.She saw no sky traffic, and as she looked up more, she could not see any signs of ships in the space overhead, either.While odd and unexpectedly warm, the location required someone to fly over the top and see the fighter.Her escape pod had been sheltered by his fighter's wings, rendering it invisible from most angles.
In fact, she was probably the most noticeable thing on the landing in her white overdress.
"Princess, are you well?"Bahran asked as he came around the side of his ship and carrying the survival bag she'd pulled out of her escape pod.
She turned to look at him.Maybe it was the low lighting that made his flight suit look so intensely defined, but she could see every single bulge on his body.
Like every big one on him.
And she couldn't help her gaze landing on his most private parts.He didn't look like that when she'd met him on Disguised Serenity, did he?She couldn't remember.It was almost intoxicating how much she could see of him.He might as well be naked.
She brushed off the thought.She certainly did not need her companion to be naked.And he was not the first male she'd ever seen, either.So she needed to get over herself.
Caoimhe had experienced physical intimacy before.There was that one prince she had been engaged to briefly.It ended rather amicably--he did not care for girls as much as boys--and she was happy to see him find someone he did love.But she was pretty sure he didn't have a member as prominent as the one that Bahran sported.
And she hoped that it was full size because she was almost terrified of what it would look like, fully erect.
Not that she would get to see it…
Why would she?
Only in her dreams, maybe.
"Princess?Did you hit your head?Do you see something in the distance?"
