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Vic looked into his daughter’s eyes, searching for any sign of abnormality. She looked exactly the same as any other time he had looked at her. Nothing had changed. “What do you do?” Chel’s question sent shockwaves through Vic. “I’m not telling you anything else until you tell me. I don’t want my friends in [...]
“They are not scientific experiments.” Chel added. Their silence was sending a myriad of fantastical ideas through her head. Her parents. She never asked. She had been content to do her own thing. Once they were home, they never spoke about work. It was like an unspoken rule. Don’t ask. “Chel,” Mel stepped forward. Vic [...]
The stitches. She didn’t want to verify what she remembered, but quickly pulled her nightgown down over her left shoulder. There wasn’t any pain. Her fingers didn’t brush across the bandage she expected to be there. She hadn’t even thought about it. Had she been that distracted by everything going on that she forgot about [...]
“And the vet called me, concerned about the mountain lion you brought in … and a talking squirrel?” Mel continued, very slowly. She really couldn’t believe what she was saying. The vet had stressed that the creatures didn’t seem that dangerous, but were definitely not normal. That had been one of the reasons for the [...]
“Go on.” Mel kept her voice calm and even. She had managed to do what so many mothers are good at. Completely change the subject directed at her, while pulling Chel back around to what she wanted to talk about. “Three weeks ago -” Chel sighed. Kip whispered something, interrupting Chel’s train of thought as [...]
“If they aren’t going to tell me, I’m not telling them.” Half an hour later, Chel threw herself onto her bed and took a big breath. The discussion had gone nowhere. “That doesn’t get you anywhere, Chel.” Kip hovered over her. Chel stared at him, somewhat surprised that his parents hadn’t tried to grill him [...]
“Oh .. no, he didn’t.” Chel’s eyes widened at the thought. “I don’t … I-” “They only last six hours, Chel.” Kip smiled. “Then they deactivate and are expelled from your body.” “What is with you aliens and all your meddling when I don’t ask for it!” Chel quickly slid under her blanket and pulled [...]
Meanwhile, Stealth was out once again, this time with Dash in the middle of another dice battle. They had been at it for awhile now and it looked like they would be at it for awhile longer. This particular dice was a headache. Literally. It couldn’t fly, but it could bounce off a body’s energy [...]
It was late morning on Chel’s side of the world, and early evening where Lexx, Zeta and Stealth were. They had been walking for awhile, which was just about all this capture was going to be. Lexx was certain the next dice would come along without a fight. She was a pacifist by nature and [...]
Serenity, as she was commonly referred to by Lexx allowed the mob of puppies to roughhouse all over her. She was larger than the African Wild dog she had bonded with and taken on almost all of her attributes. She was even larger than either of the alpha pair and if she had wanted to, [...]
