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    Sorry about the confusion with Rue and Runen’s families – the names are too simr. Rue and his Brothers were fake masters, kept our heroine in the wall, and wanted to know about Earth. Runen lived in the mountains with the women and tried to rape her to “teach Damien to share”. Should have used more different names.


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    Dinner with Arik and his Brothers was strange. The men were farmers at heart. All they enjoyed talking about was nts, soil, and weather. It wasn’t a wasted evening and they did educate Rose and me about what we were eating. It gave the men great pleasure to tell us about the different items we’d picked off the food tables.


    Rose and I both made a real effort to behave the way everyone thought we should. We talked to the men and looked at them. Every time Rose looked down I’d pinch her thigh or arm to make her look up. For our first real try, I thought it went very well.


    After dinner they insisted wee see the Earth nt they were growing. The women had brought them cuttings and told them it was a nt that originated on Earth. It had been found near a naturally urring portal before the women shut the thing down.


    Rose and I followed the men out the dining hall and into the main thoroughfare. They walked briskly and we had to run to keep up. Finally, I said something.


    “Arik, humans walk slower than this! Could you slow down, please?”


    The men found our pace slightly annoying, but they understood humans were different. They walked us out to the garage or transport storage space and climbed aboard one.


    “I don’t know if we’re allowed,” I said looking out at the dark night sky.


    Arikughed hard at that. The noise got the attention of the many other men out here, most appeared to be guards. Since this was their main entrance, that made sense.


    “Allowed by who? There is no one to ask permission. You are free toe and go as you wish. Come with us, please. We want to know if it looks as it should. Hannah and Kennedy are too busy to go out and look with us.”


    It felt like getting into the back of a van with strangers offering you candy, but I climbed on. Rose followed, but the look she gave me was priceless.


    “Use the stored sr energy and don’t stay out too long,” one of the guards called out in warning. “Don’t make use out to find you. There is no field work that can’t wait until the sun rises, Arik!”


    Before I could really feel good about this Arik’s Brother raised the craft and we were outside. The men didn’t turn on any lights and sped down the mountain slope. Luckily there seemed to be a path they were traveling, because otherwise it would have seemed like we were just wildly careening in the forest.


    The moons spread some light and I was amazed at the scenery. Through the trees the mountains in the distance glittered in certain ces. Closer to us I noted that several nts also reflected the light and some of the leaves almost glowed. This must have been what Hannah and Kennedy saw when they flew away from me. It was unbelievable.


    The transport came to an abrupt stop and lowered to the ground. The men leapt off and moved into a patch of moonlight.


    “What about creatures?” I asked hesitantly. “Are there racks or scars out there? We could not defend ourselves!”


    Arik snorted and motioned us out. “The Administrators put up a shield several moons ago, men from this camp developed it. It keeps most things like that away from the entrance to our home. We have been much safer since then. There is nothing to be afraid of here. The boundary to the protection is farther down.”


    Rose and I followed as the men stood waiting for our reaction. The ground under our feet was quite damp as we moved through it. I touched the tight grouping of long, tall stalks in front of us and almostughed.


    “On Earth,” I told the men, “this is called bamboo. We did not eat it. It was used for building, instruments, and could be cut and tied together to make a barrier. Some types of it can grow very quickly.”


    The men were enamored and stepped closer to me. I backed up.


    “You know nts,” they said sounding excited.


    My hands went up and I backed toward the transport. “I know some things about nts. My female breeder tried to grow this as natural barrier between us and another human family. It didn’t work and grew in a big clump.”


    The men were not deterred. “The women here are not interested in nts. They do not eat them and do not use them to build with. Would you like to spend more time with us? We could mate for fun,” Arik offered.


    I heard Rose’s sharp intake of breath and I took one myself. My body shook with fear as the five of them eyed me lustily.


    “I do not wish to mate,” I said very quietly, but felt certain the men would take whatever they wanted. They could and I knew that.


    “Will you please take us back?” Rose begged quietly. “Please, don’t leave us out here. We will do whatever you want. Ciara, we cannot stay out here alone,” she finished gripping my arm.


    The men didn’t seem to understand and motioned us back on the transport.


    “Of course, we will take you back,” Arik said, as his Brother started the transport. “Why would we not take you back?”


    The looks of lust and want were gone and I felt very stupid. I tried to y down what we’d said, but Arik’s family was persistent. Eventually, Rose was forced to exin how human men sometimes took a girl ces only to demand sex as payment for a ride back.


    Arik and his family were horrified. The very idea that Rose had thought them capable of that offended them greatly. When his Brother noted Rose must have been offering them sex as payment the men were almost speechless. They demanded to know why we thought they were like that. They wanted to know what they’d done to earn such a vile reputation.


    “We didn’t mean to offend,” I pleaded as the transport lowered in the storage area. “Things are different on Earth and they are different on thepounds. We have nothing topare this ce to.”


    Arik didn’t really ept that, but he tried to understand. The men had been told that ex-ves would be strange and easily confused. The Administrators had asked them to wee us but be cautious around us. The warning made more sense to them now. Still, the men seemed happy to leave us and moved quickly back into the camp.


    Rose and I let them rush ahead and walked slowly back toward our dwelling. We both had to use the facilities, so we found thecquered pots on the second floor. The men using the room were heedless of our presence and one simply pointed out the private area set aside for us.


    Behind a drape were two pots separated by wood hanging from the ceiling. It was like our own private dies room”. I was actually very d for it.


    As I washed my hands Roseughed out loud. Whatever was funny amused her greatly and she couldn’t stop giggling.


    “What is so funny?” I demanded as we skirted quickly past the men using theirtrine.


    “Can you imagine,” she asked, “what Gunth would have saidst night if Basin was still putting the plug in my bottom? Can you imagine having to take it out in front of all those menst night? How strange would free men find something like that.”


    She was right and I had tough, too. It would have just solidified what the men already thought of vers. They would have been totally offended.


    “Thank God for small miracles,” I said to her and we bothughed.


    Rose and I determined quite quickly we could not sleep alone. After removing our ornamentation from our pockets and hiding it behind the bed, both of us folded our outfits and put them on the shelf under Jonathan’s picture. We ended up huddled in my bed, together. The very idea of going into a room and sleeping alone made us both cringe.


    Wey silently next to one another listening to the muted sounds in our little cave.


    I’d left the fire burning in the main room and the leather drape to my room was open. That allowed warmth and light to still move into our sleeping room. The dancing lighting through the opening flickered and made shapes on the wall. I watched the patterns and allowed them to calm me. How many times had I sat and stared at the fire with Damien and his Brothers?


    It took a long time, but I finally drifted to sleep with Rose curled up beside me.


    “Psst, Ciara,” a familiar voice whispered in my ear, “wake up.”


    I was warm andfortable, but that wasn’t Evan’s voice. My eyes shot open and I was staring at Tyle’s young face. He was leaning over me and grinned broadly. Rose roused beside me and stiffened as she realized we weren’t alone. The men didn’t even notice our initial reaction and continued to smile at us.N?velDrama.Org holds this content.


    “Hello,” Aryn said jovially from behind his Brother, “my male breeder, Bane, sent you a message.”


    I sat up quickly and the nkets fell to my waist. The young men didn’t even notice as they all crowded into our bedroom. After having been truly dressed the entire day prior, I felt my nudity and pulled the covers over my breasts.


    Aryn knelt in front of me and I saw arge purple bruise on his chin. His brothers were all simrly marked with several bruises and small cuts. He looked so much like his father. I automatically reached out to touch his bruise and only remembered myself as my hand slid across his face.


    The boys looked shocked, but they didn’t move as I pulled my hand back.


    “I’m sorry,” I stammered, “you look so much like your father, your male breeder. I just wondered how you got that mark on your face.”