WIP Wednesday: Clans of Kalquor 12: Alien Outcast

Weapons Subcommander Terig of a raider gone rogue has boarded a Bi'isil shuttle in Empire territory. He and his boarding party are confronted by someone who is definitely not from Bi'is.

Terig fought off a grin, not because the knife she held. It was an impressive blade, nearly as long as her forearm, stained with a greenish-black substance he assumed to be her former master’s blood. Its triangular point was meant for business. Serious killing business.

              What made him smile was her pluck. Squaring off with four trained warriors, armed with percussion blasters, she didn’t give an inch. Damn if he wasn’t getting hard again, and he blessed the armored crotch of his formsuit for hiding that…though the scent coming off him was a dead giveaway, should she get close enough to smell.

              She wasn’t, and it calmed Terig to discover that all she noted was a threat. “Don’t come any closer. He’s with me.”

              “Who’s with you, girl?” Sesin had finally decided to take up his leadership duties.

              “Ob. A fellow slave.”

              Terig knew a smattering of Tragoom, especially the more descriptive terms. He wondered if ob, the word for shit, was really the creature’s name, or a cruel—if apt—moniker forced on it by its master.

          “We have no use for Tragooms. Stand aside so we can finish it.” Sesin waved his blaster negligently.

              “Fuck you.” She went into a slight crouch, knife at the ready.

              A surge of delight powered through Terig at her defiant words. No matter how outrageous it was that she would defend a revolting Tragoom, the most worthless species in the universe and not deserving to breathe a single inch of Kalquorian air, he couldn’t help but admire her for standing her ground.

              Gorgeous woman. Likes knives. Possesses terrible taste in companions. Threatens men twice her size, so she’s apparently unbalanced. Maybe I’d have a chance with her after all.

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