Page 95 of Night's Fall
And it was everything.
“One more question,” he said gently. “Howold were you?”
“Please, later?”Ipushed out, coming to terms with so many things (so many!),Icouldn’t take more. “Whenyou learn about all of it,Ineed time to see to you.”
“How old,bissi tressa?”
Oh heck.
Bissiwas bad enough.
Bissi tressameant my beloved little treasured one.
In other words, he’d pulled out the big guns.
“Maybe six, my wrist.Ithink nine, my ribs.”
His chest expanded with the huge breath he took.
He took his time letting it out.
“Okay,” he whispered, nabbed my hand and guided us out of the room.
We were halfway down the stairs when two matte-steel bots of the same model as the shiny black one that manned the tech check at thePinkandBlackClubentered at the bottom, wrangling before them my three-piece set of hover luggage, and five other piecesI’dnever seen.
“The female closet is empty, unpack her there,”Alekseiordered as we passed them.
“As you wish, your highness,” both bots mechanical voices answered in unison.
“Erm…how much of my stuff are they bringing over?”Iasked.
Aleksei didn’t look down at me, which was a strategically brilliant moveIshould have read to its fullest (but alas,Ididn’t), when he said, “Enoughto suffice.”
Eight suitcases surely had to be more than enough to suffice.
We made the foot of the stairs, and there stoodAllainwith a lovely, curvy blonde human female who had decided middle age with mild enhancements worked great for her, and she was right.
The kitty hover-carriers floated off to their side.
Comet got one look at me and howled.
“For fuck’s sake, let them out,”Alekseicommanded.
The woman clicked a control in her hand, the cages drifted to the ground, and then she clicked the control again, and the doors opened.
All of this in the timeIsaid, “No…wait.”
Jupiter darted out like a shot and disappeared.
As expected.
I wouldn’t see him untilIput wet food out in the morning.
Comet came out, sat on his fat, furry behind and howled again.
Nova trotted our way, bypassed me entirely and meowed up atAleksei.
He bent instantly and lifted her to cradle her in his arms.
