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Pronunciations:



Veriea: Verr-ree-a(i)



Forenien: For-en-ee-en



Vocabulary:



Kainde Amedha: hard meat/ xenomorph



Gaun-Thwei: night blood



Chiva: trial/ test



Setg’in kwei: tricky/ quick



Pyode Amedha: soft meat/ human (ooman)



Yeyinde: brave one



Pauk: fuck



Ell-osde c’jit: damn you



C’jit: damn



pauk’de: fucking/ fucker



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= Chapter 2- A Close Shave =







“What about this device on her wrist? It seems to be undamaged.”



“Take it off. It can be returned later; healing her is more important and it’ll only get in the way.”



“Yes, Elder.”



“She needs blood.”



“But Elder, all we have is…..if we even try, it could kill her…the chances of her surviving…”



“If we don’t, she will die anyway.”



“As you wish, Elder.”



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Like a living entity, it sought a place to shelter, a place to grow. It drifted in the warm red channels, repelling the weak attacks by the inhabitants and in return leaving them slightly changed. A green began to blend the channels and more attacks came, stronger, more aggressive, yet they too fell but just as it left them changed, they left it changed as well.



Then it found the well spring.



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Anxiousness. Concern. Confusion. Like colours they played across the mind. Pain, so much pain, like a burning river, lighting up the darkness. Calling her to wake.



Slowly, she opened her eyes.



It was dark. Her body ached. Something moved nearby. She tried to rise but a large hand gently pushed her back down.



“Sleep.” It rumbled. “Must sleep.”



“It hurts.” She groaned, her eyes unfocused.



“Not for long, yeyinde, not for long. Must sleep.”



She drifted back into the darkness…..



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“She’s healing well but these blood tests….”



“There’s bound to be a few irregularities; it’s a miracle she didn’t reject the blood we gave her in the first place.”



“You’re right. I just hope she wakes up soon. The Elder is becoming very, well, edgy.”



“Yes, and so are the other three. You know, I hear she fought the kainde amedha unarmed and with her hands bound.”



“Don’t listen to rumors. If she had no weapon, how did she remove its head?”



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Strange clicks, growls and chirps drifted around in the darkness. She felt warm but not unpleasantly so. Sudden out of the darkness came the black beast, hissing and screeching as it slashed open her belly.



Her eyes flew open and she sat bolt upright, uttering a soft cry. She saw something move towards her out of the corner of her eye and instinctively rolled away in the opposite direction, ending up sprawled on the floor and in much pain, something pulling at the skin of her arms. She felt large, rough hands grab hold of her and she struggled, ignoring the burning sensation as something tore, pain shooting through her and growled threateningly. The hands released her and she backed away quickly, turning to face whatever creature was there, continuing to growl.



Her eyes were blurry and wouldn’t focus but she could still see that there were two figures in the room with her, both larger than her and wearing white. She didn’t like white coats; white coats poked and prodded and did nasty things. She growled louder.



One of the figures barked something to the other and the second one left quickly. She kept growling, though the remaining figure did not approach her or do anything but watch her. She didn’t know how long they stayed like that, warily eyeing each other but eventually her growl had dropped off and they stared at each other in silence and she started to calm down, her vision starting to clear a little. The door opened and several caped forms entered, including the other white coat and she stared growling again when she realized, even with her fuzzy vision, that the ones wearing gold coloured capes were holding weapons. The largest figure, wearing a scarlet cape, stepped forward, clicking something to the others and she backed away.



“Easy, yeyinde, clam down.” It said in Universal standard, shocking her. Seeing it had her attention, it continued. “Must calm down or will hurt self.”



“You-you speak my language?” She asked timidly.



“Fairly well, yes.” It replied. “Please let Healers help you.” It indicated to the white coats.



“Healers?”



“Yes.”



“Not scientists?”



“No, not scientists.” It reassured her, its tone indicating that it was confused as to why she should be afraid of scientists.



Her fear ebbed away and with it her strength, causing her to shudder and finally collapse. The two Healers came forward and helped her back to the bed, laying her down.



“Why can’t I see properly? Everything’s all blurry.” She asked as the two Healers fussed and fiddled, checking vital signs. After a few clicks she had her answer.



“You were badly injured, sleep many days. Body is worn out from the healing but will get better quickly now you awake.”



Satisfied with that answer, she asked the more pressing question.



“Where am I? And please forgive the rudeness but who are you?” Wouldn’t kill her to try to be polite about it and by the way the others were acting, it was someone important so she figured she shouldn’t get them angry.



“You are on board a Yautja vessel. I am Ka’e’aka, an Elder of the Guan-Thwei Clan. It was my son who you save.”



“Oh, he’s ok then? That’s good.” She thought for a moment. “This is probably a stupid question and please don’t be offended, but you are a male aren’t you?” He chuckled.



“Yes, I am. In fact, you are the only female aboard right now.”



“Well, that makes it easier for me I guess. Not to sound ungrateful, I am very grateful but why am I still alive? That black beast tore me wide open and by my reckonings, I should have been dead from blood loss alone.”



“Our Healers are very good and you were brought aboard in time.” He answered.



She sat up slowly, despite the protests of the healer and looked at the Elder.



In the silence that followed she read their feelings of apprehension and concern and in doing so realized that the C.A.J.E. had been removed. She sent a tendril of consciousness into her own body and what she discovered there surprised and reassured her-they had gone to quite some lengths to heal her. She rubbed her eyes and forced them to focus, determined to at least see the faces of these ‘Yautja’. As her vision slowly cleared and focused, she could see that their faces were far from anything she had yet seen on a humanoid but that only made her more curious about them.



They were certainly more frightening in appearance without their masks but she already knew she had nothing to fear from them, they had gone through the trouble of healing her after all, and observed their features closely. Wide foreheads, defined sweeping brows ending in crests, hooded eyes in shades of yellow and green from what she could see, four tusked mandibles surrounding and partially hiding a small lipless mouth with sharp teeth and above that, two flat slitted nostrils. They were all muticoloured, some dark, some light, some speckled, some striped and some even both.



Interesting.



Scary as hell but interesting.



“There you are.” She murmured, more to herself than anyone. “It’s good to be able to see who I’m talking to.”



“Indeed.” He answered though he seemed slightly confused.



“Your Healers preformed a blood transfusion with what I assume was blood from one of your kind.” She paused a moment, grinning as they were obviously surprised that she knew what had happened. “A very tricky and dangerous procedure considering you don’t seem to have ever encountered my race before but I am thankful it was attempted as it saved my life. I would like to thank them and whoever donated the blood but I can’t speak your language.”



“Wait a moment.” The Elder said and then spoke in his own tongue to one of the armed males behind him who then produced a small box from somewhere and moved to hand it to her. She accepted it and opened it to find a tiny device, about half the width of her pinky finger. “Translator,” The Elder told her. “Place behind upper canine tooth and press with lower canine to turn on and off.”



She positioned the device in the correct place and yelped as it clamped its tiny claws into her tooth with a little electric jolt. She clenched her teeth against the pain automatically.



“Pauk, that hurt!” She cursed without thinking.



Several of the Yautja started at her words and she felt their surprise. She realized she had just turned the translator on and looked around sheepishly. “Ah, sorry. I guess it’s working.” Great. Real smooth. Her first words in an alien language and it’s a swear word.



“That’s alright,” The Elder growled in amusement, now perfectly understandable in his own tongue. “I should have warned you about that. Now, what is your name?”



“Veriea Faux,” She hesitated a moment and then decided she should give some kind of rank. “Of the Forrnan red fox tribe.”



The Elder approached and laid a hand on her shoulder. Something inside her responded to the touch.



“Welcome, Veriea Faux.”



“Thank you, Elder Ka’e’aka.” She answered, returning the gesture as best she could considering his height. Her blood san in her veins and she could feel…something. She tilted her head to the side, observing the Elder. Her blood? “It was you who donated the blood?”



“Yes. Though you were unarmed, without amour and bound, you killed the kainde amedha. We have hunted the kainde amedha for thousands of years and very few of our warriors have achieved such a feat as yours. And at the same time you saved the life of my son. Such acts are greatly honored among our kind.”



“I was repaying a favor; some of your warriors rescued me from the hands of some rather nasty individuals and it was my fault that your son was unprepared for the attack.” The Elder raised an eyebrow. “I er-pounced on him while he was still cloaked, I distracted him.”



“From what my warriors tell me there was ample time for him to recover, in which you tried to warn him of the danger behind him, another honorable act.”



Veriea bowed her head, accepting the Elder’s words and that she wasn’t going to get out of this by being modest. Then she caught a glimpse of her belly and yelped, jumping up, ignoring the fact that several of the males had reached for their weapons as she did.



“What’s wrong?” One of the healers asked, confused as she grabbed at her stomach,



“M-my fur! You shaved my fur!” She yelled, somewhere between a snarl and a whimper as she tried to cover the offending area with her hands. She snatched a sheet off of the bed and dragged it up to cover her middle. “Ell-osde c’jit! A forenien’s fur is like its clothes! How would you like being half naked in a roomful of strangers!”



The healer’s cheeks flushed a deep green, his right lower mandible clicking.



“We had to in order to heal you. It’s not as if you have anything there to hide.” He said in his defense.



“Shows how much you know.” She growled. Stupid healer. Her nipples were all exposed without her belly fur. She peeked under the sheet. “Pauk, this is going to take weeks to grow back to being decent and then it’s going to be uneven for ages. C’jit! I’m going to have a pauk’de square on my stomach!”



“She certainly seems to have the hang of our swear words already.” One of the males chuckled. She couldn’t help but grin at that and ran her hand through the locks of fur on her forehead but the froze. She ran her hand though again and then rounded on the healer.



“Pauk! You took a section off of my forehead as well!”



“Wait, wait! That wasn’t us!” The healer said, backing away with his hands in front of him as if he expected her to attack. “That was the kainde amedha blood and you’re lucky it didn’t burn right into your brain!”



She paused, frowned and then plunked herself back down onto the bed, grumbling.



“Pauk’de kainde amedha…I’d like to kill it all over again.” She muttered angrily. She ran her hand through her locks again and grimaced. “Well this is just embarrassing. I’m not staying like this when I don’t have to.” She said, hauling the sheet up further and wrapping it around her so that it covered her whole body from the neck down.



Then she shocked every one by changing into a human.



End-Ch2



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