Page 71 of Infala: The Alien's Bond
The question of the morning was what, if anything new, had been uncovered of the Dohrag plans.
As for Darla, she took her time rousing from bed, savoring the delightful feeling of being properly fucked had left her. The runes had erased any actual pain, and no damage had been done. But the sheer strength of her orgasms had left her needing every minute of that rest. And now she needed food. Lots of it.
She took a quick shower in the general’s private facilities, then stepped out into the morning air. She had a spring in her step as she made her way to the communal breakfast area, and for the moment at least all was good in the world.
“Hey, Darla! Over here!” Shalia called out, waving for her to join her.
Darla piled up her plate high and made her way over to the table, tucking into her food with gusto.
“Hey, Shalia. You sleep well?”
“I did. At least, Iwassleeping well,” she added with a chuckle.
“Wait, what happened?”
Shalia could barely contain her mirth, the cheer in her eyes clear as a grin crept onto her face. “So. Wow. You and the alien guy.”
Darla’s cheeks abruptly burned, her gaze darting to the other diners. “Shit. You heard that?” she asked in a hushed voice.
“Weallheard that.”
“Oh, damn.”
“Uh-huh. All I know is it must’ve been damn good.”
Darla’s blush was replaced with a starry-eyed grin as she replayed the night’s festivities. “You have no idea.”
Shalia looked at the other aliens currently dining in the group. She’d been unsure about the males, given what the Raxxians and now the Dohrags had put her through, but Darla’s rather vocal experience had made her look at them in a new light. A curious one. If an alien could rock her world like that, maybe she could find one of her own.
“I’m so glad you decided to come back to the Oraku village with us. It may be low tech, but they’re good people.”
“After the Dohrags, I could really go for good right about now. But what about eventually getting home? I mean, yeah, we’ve got to worry about the here and now, but I’d still like to get back to Earth, you know?”
“Yeah, I know what you’re saying and I’m going to ask Heydar about that. I was thinking, once we return the others home, maybe we could use the captured ship to get to Earth. But I have a bad feeling it’s not up for the flight.”
“You think it’ll break down?”
Darla shook her head. “No, I just don’t think it’s an interstellar kind of spaceship.”
“You were only abducted a couple of weeks ago, and you’re an expert in spaceships now?”
“No, nothing like that. But I’ve seen enough sci-fi in my day, and, I mean, just look at the thing. It’s not all that robust. And it’s small, too. Not conducive for a long flight. And given its size, even though I don’t know fuck all about alien engines, I don’t think it has faster-than-light capabilities. Hell, I seriously doubt it has enough power to even travel all the way to Earth. At least, not in our lifetimes, anyway.”
“I could not help but overhear your conversation,” a voice that made Darla’s knees weak said. Heydar stepped into view and walked over to join them, Kuxx following close behind. “The shuttle is indeed lacking the equipment required to reach your home world.”
“You heard that?” Shalia asked. “You weren’t anywhere near us.”
Heydar tapped the tattoo behind his ear. “I have a particularly good set of runes,” he replied with a friendly grin, leaning down and giving Darla a tender kiss.
Wow, and he’s not afraid of PDA,she marveled.This just gets better and better.
“In any case, there are no interstellar drive systems on the vessel. It is merely a transport shuttle, designed to make short hops from an orbiting craft to the surface. The Dohrags use it to build up the frozen storage aboard their orbiting platform.”
“You’re sure of that?”
“Believe me, we extracted all of the relevant information possible from our prisoners,” Kuxx stated matter-of-factly. “They did not hold any information back.”
Shalia didn’t want to ask what methods had been employed to achieve such certainty.
