Page 18 of Catching the Kot'oll Driver

No!

Why am I even thinking about that? That may be even dumber than withholding his spaceship for examination. Not to mention...

The big beings I’ve met have always...

I shake my head as if that’ll help with clearing my thoughts. “So, if I take the bed, where’ll you be?”

“Just here, sleep at the dashboard.”

I stare at the driving seat. It is padded with more soft material than the usual spaceship or my own spaceship, but that can’t be comfortable enough. At least, I bet the bed will be better. “But... it’s not good to sleep here.”

He shrugs. “The seat can be adjusted. I sleep at the dashboard a lot.”

Maybe that’s when he is driving from planet to planet. Sleeping at the dashboard will make sure he can react as quickly as possible if something happens.

But... he has landed and maybe he would enjoy the bed for a bit until it is time to fly home.

Yet, he is offering that to me.

I clear my throat. “Seeing we can’t go anywhere, if you aren’t worried that I’d steal your spaceship, I should be the one sleeping at the dashboard.”

“No.”

I stare at him, but that seems to be the end of his sentence, and he isn’t going to say something more. “I mean it. You already let me stay here, I can’t also take the bed from you.”

“No.”

I scowl at him. “What do you mean by no?”

“No means no.”

“Can you even talk like a normal being?”

“What’s wrong with no? Are you an idiot?”

I suck in a breath, reminding myself that I should have some self-control and stop shouting at beings even though they annoy me. “I’m asking, why?”

“I’m a male, that’s the right thing to do.”

Oh... “I thought you think that I’d break things or something.”

He smirks, which stirs a fire in my stomach. He isn’t handsome with that smirk even though he may think that way, he is definitely not good-looking, not at all. “That too.”

“I won’t do everything. You deserve to enjoy your own bed. I— hey!”

I yell at him, but he picks me up with two arms and holds down my wrists and ankles with the other two. “What are you doing? let go of me?” I kick and squirm, but he has large hands and I’m not making progress.

He starts walking, probably heading to the bedroom. “Apparently, you can’t listen to a thing.”

“I mean what I said. You should take the bed.”

“I told you no.”

This is why I hate big beings, they think that they can do whatever they want and make me do things as they want. I hate them and they keep inviting themselves around me. It doesn’t help when most beings are bigger than me. At least most of them don’t have a bigger brain than me. Jokes on them.

But that doesn’t change that Grihul is moving me to the room without asking whether I want to or not. Well, I suppose he did, and I told him no, and he didn’t care.

He puts me on the bed. “Here, stay on the bed and sleep.”

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