Chapter 11
“It’s cool, isn’t it?”
I spin away from the brownish-green blob of my home, to see a deep blue form in front of me. “What?” I freeze, mouth agape.
Standing in front of me is a beautiful blue Fem. Her skin is sapphire blue like the gemstones I’ve seen in pictures, cut through with thin white stripes, rippling up her arms. Instead of hair, she has a clump of tentacles that lay slicked back like hair but squirm at the tips. “Seeing your planet for the first time is so cool. Don’t you think?”
“Yeah, yeah, it is,” I’m not sure if I am talking about her or the planet. I occasionally saw people on Earth that weren’t human, but outside of Tortie and a few other vendors in The Market, I never had the chance to interact with any of them.
Her cheerful voice has a clipped, short way o
