Betty Adams Tall Tales
  • Home
    • Book 1 "Humans are Weird: I Have the Data"
    • Book 2 "Humans are Weird: We Took a Vote"
    • Book 3 "Humans are Weird: Let's Work It Out"
    • "Dying Embers"
    • Testimonials
  • The Aliens
    • Dying Embers
    • Humans Are Weird
    • Miscellaneous
    • Fan Art
  • Betty's Blog
    • Humans Are Weird
  • Store: Betty's Booty
  • About & Contact
    • Bibliography
    • Links

Humans are Weird - Illicit Smuggling Operation

12/23/2019

Comments

 
Picture
Humans are Weird – Illicit Smuggling Operation

“I apologize for interrupting you,” First Mother said, uncurling one antenna to get the attention of the Trisk on the other side of the holo-link, “but could you repeat the accusation?”
“You subordinate has been running an illicit smuggling operation,” Tisk’krt repeated slowly and carefully.
“Second Brother!” First Mother said, her frill limp with shock.
“It is hard to believe,” Tisk’krt said with sympathy in the set of his eight legs. “Especially of such an experience ecologist.”
“He is always so careful about contamination,” First Mother said, oscillating her head in confusion. “And he knows the regulations so well! Has he given any defense for his actions?”
“Eyes.” Tisk’krt stated.
First Mother tilted her head to the side as she waited for the rest of the sentence.  None came.
“Eyes?” She asked, parting her antenna in curiosity.
The Trisk commander slumped.
“Perhaps you should view the recording for yourself,” he said.
First Mother flicked her antenna in agreement and the holo-link dissolved and resolved into an image of Survey Core Ranger, Ecologist Stephen Bryce, Second Brother to his friends. He was standing in a posture of forced openness humans displayed when trying to convince another of the lack of danger in a situation that was clearly dangerous. In his hands he held a creature of slightly larger mass than a Winged.
“And why?” demanded the recorded voice of Tisk’krt, “did you risk contamination, subvert protocol, and endanger your position on this world in order to smuggle these creatures out to other humans?”
“They’re harmless-“ Second Brother interjected.
To First Mother’s shock the Trisk actually interrupted the human.
“We have established that you do not have enough data to confirm that claim!” Trsk’krt nearly snapped. “Why did you do it?”
The human seemed to struggle with the answer, and then finally lifted the creature so the camera focused on its face.
“The eyes!” Second Brother said in a deeply earnest tone. “Look at those giant, deep eyes!”
“Oh,” First Mother drooped as the beginning of understanding caused her frill to flutter in a mix of sympathy and irritation.
“Do you have an explanation?” Trsk’krt asked eagerly as the holo-link switched back to him.
“I suspect I do,” she admitted carefully. “You see when I was stationed with Second Brother I was still only First Sister.”
The Trisk commander waved a gripping leg for her to continue.
“My homing instinct hit me at full strength cycles sooner than I expected,” she went on. “So Second Brother and I had many conversations about mating age and sexual development while I was waiting for transport to the garden my sisters had prepared for me and he who would be the First Father.  Second Brother told me many things about the similar human instinct codes. I hesitate to make an absolute statement.”
She paused to gather her thoughts.
“But that creature,” she said, “displays significant neonatal signals by human standards, and I suspect Second Brother might have been made susceptible to that by his – I believe they call it a biological clock.”


Thank you all so much for your updoots and feedback. It gives me the will to go on. Want to see more? Think about becoming a Patreon. Tea refuses to buy itself and the more time one has to spend on a day job the less time there is for befuddled aliens. 


Comments
comments powered by Disqus
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Audible
    AMAZON
    BARNES & NOBLE
    Powell's Books
    GOOGLE BOOKS
    KOBO Books
    YouTube 
    BitChute 
    Odysee

    Rumble
    Veoh
    PictureTeespring Store Buy COOL Merch

    SubscribeSTAR
    Picture

    Author

    Betty Adams is an up and coming author with a bent for science and Sci-fi.

    Archives

    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014

    RSS Feed

    blogrollcenter.com
    Picture
    Blog Directory & Business Pages - OnToplist.com
Copyright © 2015
  • Home
    • Book 1 "Humans are Weird: I Have the Data"
    • Book 2 "Humans are Weird: We Took a Vote"
    • Book 3 "Humans are Weird: Let's Work It Out"
    • "Dying Embers"
    • Testimonials
  • The Aliens
    • Dying Embers
    • Humans Are Weird
    • Miscellaneous
    • Fan Art
  • Betty's Blog
    • Humans Are Weird
  • Store: Betty's Booty
  • About & Contact
    • Bibliography
    • Links