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Authors: Michelle M. Pillow
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I am not technically an alien,” Drake stated. “My people are dragon-shifters. It is said we lived here on Earth long ago and left through the portals to escape human persecution. Cat-shifters came with us. I have simply returned to the home of my ancestors”
“That is what you took away from what I said? You’re worried about being mistaken for a lizard alien? Come on, we need to go inside. You can’t go home.” Lori made a small noise of exasperation and urged him to go inside the cabin. She shut the door. “Do you have a…” Lori’s voice gave out as she looked around. Inside of Ursa’s home wasn’t some dirty backwater shack. Light came from a lamp on a highly polished table. The antique wood furniture complemented the pristine rugs and surrounded a giant flat screen television mounted on the wall over a fireplace. Shelves lined the side of the mantel, filled with DVDs.
“Don’t get ideas,” Ursa warned as if Lori was about to steal something.
“Drake needs medical attention,” Lori said, not bothering to argue with the woman. “Why am I the only one who seems to get the urgency of this situation?”
“Why?” Ursa frowned. “He’ll be fine. Always is.” She jerked her thumb over her shoulder. “You know where to go, chere .”
Drake nodded and moved to follow her direction to the dining room table. Ursa produced a sewing box from a cabinet and followed him. She opened the lid and took out a crude metal instrument and a bottle of whiskey. Handing him the drink, she then waited until he took several gulps before beginning to probe at his shoulder.
Drake turned his attention to Lori. It was hard to see if he was in pain by the hardness of his shifted face. Lori approached him slowly.
“Why were you searching for me?” Drake asked. His eyes narrowed as Ursa poked around his wound.
“I…” Lori gave a small, helpless gesture. “You never came for dinner. I wanted to see you, to thank you, to, um, see you. How are you?”
Drake looked at his injured arm and back at her. “I am well.”
Lori winced as Ursa shoved her instrument deeper into Drake’s oozing shoulder. She remained quiet, watching the procedure with a feeling of horror.
Chapter 14
W hat new test was this ?
Sheriff Jackson had warned him away from Lori. Ursa wanted to shoot Lori. Both were people whose opinions he trusted. Drake wanted to keep Lori with him in the swamps as his mate, have babies with her and—if the gods ever blessed him with a way to make it happen—take her back to his home world to show her where he was born.
Drake stared at Lori, thinking of her to avoid feeling the pain in his arm. Ursa filled the silence, demanding the story of how Drake came to be on her lawn. He told her everything. There was no reason not to.
When Ursa finally dug the bullet from his arm, he was assaulted with an almost instant numbness as his body began to heal. The sound of metal clanked against porcelain when Ursa dropped the bullet into a container. She then dabbed at his arm.
“You don’t look like a dragon,” Lori said. “At least none that I’ve seen in mythology books.”
“You are thinking of female dragon-shifters,” he answered.
“I thought you said you came back to Earth because your people didn’t have female dragons.” Lori moved closer to him. He watched her expression for fear but didn’t find any. Instead, she looked curious.
“Very few in our older generations,” he answered. “But they are dying out. We have not had a female shifter birth on Qurilixen for a long time. When the problem first began, couples were encouraged to have more babies in hopes that it would result in some women. It did not work. All it did was make a large generation of men with little prospect of having a family.”
“So you all decided to move back to Earth?” Lori asked.
“Our old documents say that humans are reproductively compatible. So the portal that was used to escape persecution on Earth was unburied.
“That is what you took away from what I said? You’re worried about being mistaken for a lizard alien? Come on, we need to go inside. You can’t go home.” Lori made a small noise of exasperation and urged him to go inside the cabin. She shut the door. “Do you have a…” Lori’s voice gave out as she looked around. Inside of Ursa’s home wasn’t some dirty backwater shack. Light came from a lamp on a highly polished table. The antique wood furniture complemented the pristine rugs and surrounded a giant flat screen television mounted on the wall over a fireplace. Shelves lined the side of the mantel, filled with DVDs.
“Don’t get ideas,” Ursa warned as if Lori was about to steal something.
“Drake needs medical attention,” Lori said, not bothering to argue with the woman. “Why am I the only one who seems to get the urgency of this situation?”
“Why?” Ursa frowned. “He’ll be fine. Always is.” She jerked her thumb over her shoulder. “You know where to go, chere .”
Drake nodded and moved to follow her direction to the dining room table. Ursa produced a sewing box from a cabinet and followed him. She opened the lid and took out a crude metal instrument and a bottle of whiskey. Handing him the drink, she then waited until he took several gulps before beginning to probe at his shoulder.
Drake turned his attention to Lori. It was hard to see if he was in pain by the hardness of his shifted face. Lori approached him slowly.
“Why were you searching for me?” Drake asked. His eyes narrowed as Ursa poked around his wound.
“I…” Lori gave a small, helpless gesture. “You never came for dinner. I wanted to see you, to thank you, to, um, see you. How are you?”
Drake looked at his injured arm and back at her. “I am well.”
Lori winced as Ursa shoved her instrument deeper into Drake’s oozing shoulder. She remained quiet, watching the procedure with a feeling of horror.
Chapter 14
W hat new test was this ?
Sheriff Jackson had warned him away from Lori. Ursa wanted to shoot Lori. Both were people whose opinions he trusted. Drake wanted to keep Lori with him in the swamps as his mate, have babies with her and—if the gods ever blessed him with a way to make it happen—take her back to his home world to show her where he was born.
Drake stared at Lori, thinking of her to avoid feeling the pain in his arm. Ursa filled the silence, demanding the story of how Drake came to be on her lawn. He told her everything. There was no reason not to.
When Ursa finally dug the bullet from his arm, he was assaulted with an almost instant numbness as his body began to heal. The sound of metal clanked against porcelain when Ursa dropped the bullet into a container. She then dabbed at his arm.
“You don’t look like a dragon,” Lori said. “At least none that I’ve seen in mythology books.”
“You are thinking of female dragon-shifters,” he answered.
“I thought you said you came back to Earth because your people didn’t have female dragons.” Lori moved closer to him. He watched her expression for fear but didn’t find any. Instead, she looked curious.
“Very few in our older generations,” he answered. “But they are dying out. We have not had a female shifter birth on Qurilixen for a long time. When the problem first began, couples were encouraged to have more babies in hopes that it would result in some women. It did not work. All it did was make a large generation of men with little prospect of having a family.”
“So you all decided to move back to Earth?” Lori asked.
“Our old documents say that humans are reproductively compatible. So the portal that was used to escape persecution on Earth was unburied.
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