The Tenth Year
Eddy woke up feeling a bit better than she had been although a little sore from last night's lovefest. Kalashi was happily curled up on top of her, still asleep. Kinta was awake, probably cooking breakfast. Edwina was glad Kinta could cook. The last time the young Gria had tried to cook for herself she blew up the inn she and Kinta were staying at, and all she was cooking were some Spaghetti-Os. The kind with the little hot dogs mixed in.
The heat the Gria was feeling was still intense. She was sure it was heat she was experiencing now. All she could think about was Fluorgis, and how the hell she was going to get there… wait a moment!
FLUORGIS?!
That was the last place Edwina wanted to be! If she went there, she didn't know if she'd be able to control herself, and would end up betraying poor Kinta. Not to mention the fact that she was not interested in having children at her age. Some Gria bred for the first time when they were fifty, but Eddy felt that if she did, it would be a major mistake. Even if she just got artificially inseminated like Kinta wanted in a few years. Kinta had told her about how Viera would die in childbirth occasionally. Eddy had never heard of that happening to a Gria, but she was worried it could.
And she didn't know how to take care of children! Gria laid eggs, and they had to keep the eggs warm. Eddy and Kinta would probably do something wrong, and even if the egg did hatch… would either girl be able to take care of a Gria child? Eddy's mother would never help them. She did not like her daughter being with a Viera. She could care less that Eddy was lesbian. It was the fact that her lover was a Viera that bothered her. For some reason, nobody in Eddy's family liked the rabbit-eared creatures at all. One of her older sisters had actually killed one once, supposedly for threatening her eggs, but Edwina wasn't so sure that was the truth.
"Kinta? Are you out here?" Eddy asked after she had gotten up and dressed. Kalashi didn't seem too upset about being roused from her sleep. The small mammal had perched herself on Edwina's shoulder like usual. The Viera was indeed in the kitchen of their small house. She seemed deeply upset.
"Eddy, I think we're gonna have to go to Fluorgis." Kinta said.
Edwina bared her teeth. "Where is my Kinta?!" She yelled.
Kinta looked her lover straight in the eyes. "It's not like that. Your sister wants an escort. There's this male who has been bothering her, and she wants to get to Fluorgis and find her own mate. She asked for you personally, even though she told me she'd be happy if you went alone and I went and got turned into a statuary by something and was placed in someone's garden for the rest of forever. What exactly does your family loathe so much about Viera?" She wondered.
"Tell Rinalda she can get to Fluorgis on her own. I'm not going there while I'm vulnerable, and especially not with someone who cannot accept you!"
"Eddy, nothing will happen unless you mate."
"Who's to say I won't? You've nearly lost control of yourself around men in the fall a few times. Remember when we were doing that stupid mission with all those Nu Mou and you started telling the lead dog—in explicit detail— all kinds of things you wanted to do with him and I had to knock you out?"
Kinta shuddered at the memory. "You're right. Let's just get this Sangria Clan situation under control. You are feeling up to it, aren't you?" She asked.
"Let's do it."
"Later, after the clan is taken care of." Kinta said, even though she understood exactly what Edwina meant. They used this joke a lot.