I didn’t intend to scare her, but…

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I didn’t intend to scare her, but that’s exactly what I did when I mind-melded with her. Or whatever that was.

But why can she hear my thoughts, when I can’t hear hers?

I don’t get it. I start wracking my brain for a memory that could explain what is happening between me and Naomi.

An image floods my brain. My Father, lying on his bed, sulking. I

remember hearing him crying about his ‘lost connection’ to my Mother, after all the females passed.

I never knew what he had meant.

Was it a Narulian thing? I hadn’t heard any of the V’aalarans

mention it.

Weird.

Maybe I could use some forgetting juice. Instead, I sit in silence in

the dining area, eating my first meal as a Mate all by myself, while my female sits alone, scared, and possibly furious with me, in a large bath.

I chuckle. I’d never even thought of filling that tub with water.

“What’s so funny?”

I look up and see Naomi standing in front of me. Her hair is wet and hanging around her shoulders. She’s carrying her plate of half-eaten food. She put the robe back on, but it’s loose on her much smaller frame.

“I was just thinking about how ironic it is that I was all alone here, on our first full day together. But now you’re with me.”

She makes a clacking sound with her teeth but sits down across from me anyway.

“What is this green stuff?” she asks, pointing with a fork.

“That’s a Narulian see veggie. Kilpo.”

“You have a sea?”

I smile. She is curious about my planet. Our planet.

“We have many seas. We are mostly an aqueous planet, like Earth. Except we keep a good balance with nature.”

“Yeah, humans are kinda destructive,” she muses, taking another bite of kilpo and mashed baday. “I do like this. It tastes... different.”

“I can’t wait to show you everything.”

“Do you have pictures?”

She looks hopeful. Eager.

I smile. “If you can hear my words, maybe you can feel my thoughts in other ways.”

“How would that work?”

“Well, we can sit together after you finish eating.”

She nods, then quickly finishes her meal.

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