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Humans are Weird – Cranky

Humans are Weird – Cranky


Twistsfirmly closed the final file on his display and gave his body a vigorous shake. He had spent the day researching the fascinating array of medical issues that humans faced when involved in long periods of intellectual work as opposed to physical work. He had gained a fair working knowledge of the subject at university but he always found it good to refresh his mental threads and resound the waters as the seasons changed. Now he scrambled over the side of his work tank and let himself tumble down into the main channel of his office. From there he swam to the portal and through it out into the corridor.
In the main current the eerie singing of the crystal forests hummed as an undertone and Twistfirmly felt more than a current of discomfort. The wind played over the upthrusting branches making each organism in the forest vibrate with resonance from tip to deepest root. The waters that flowed through the ground caught that resonance and reminded all but those in the most insulated pools that outside the world was not currently friendly to sapient life.
“Time to cuddle a human!” Twistsfirmly announced to no one in particular as the thought of that massive reef of mammalian bio heat lured him to the common area.
Yes his own quarters were very comfortably insulated but let the water moan as it liked if you had your appendages on a friend.
He was delighted and surprise to find Human Friend Freddy sprawled out on a couch with a mug of hot drink in one hand and the fluffiest of the blankets around her. It looked like she was seeking companionship and warmth too. He popped out of the water, made sure he was acceptably dry, and scrambled over to her.
“Human Friend Freddy!” He called out.
“Neck,” she interrupted curtly. “Back.”
Twistsfirmly waved in understanding and felt a rippled of concern. Now that he was actually sounding her and not just her lovely aura of warmth, he noted that Human Friend Freddy was flushed with the colors of exhaustion and irritation. He climbed the couch and slid with delight into the pouch afforded by the hood of her personal insulation layer while wrapping himself around her shoulders and neck.
Here was not just a chance for warmth and socialization, here was a chance to extend an appendage to a distressed friend.
The powerful muscle fibers under Human Friend Freddy’s outer membrane were far tenser than her duties could explain. The stripes on her skin pulsed with what he had come to understand as self directed anger. Her bifocal eyes were glaring out the window, watching the electrical discharges dance through the crystal forest.
“What has you so tense Human Friend Freddy?” Twistsfirmly finally asked.
The human grunted and brought her drink up to her mouth for a sip of the hot liquid. She waited so long to respond that he was going to ask again when she heaved a sigh.
“I have a massive report to get done,” she said. “It’s taking way longer than I expected and I want to have it done by the time the Shatar trader ship comes through.”
Twistsfirmly gave an encouraging hum as he started pressing her tight shoulders.
“I thought I’d put in a few extra hours a day,” she went on, “get it done with time to spare.”
“There are still many days until its expected arrival,” Twistsfirmly observed.
“Yeah,” Human Friend Freddy agreed, but her tone was far from happy as she took another sip. “it’ll be done, but I’m still ticked off. I had to quit earlier than I wanted to today. My brain just couldn’t take it any more.”
“Why does this make you angry?” Twistsfirmly asked.
“I’ve never gotten too tired to work from doing brain work before,” she growled out. “It makes sense when I’m out with the work crews. Your body just goes too hard and let’s you know and that’s it, but I was just sitting there, entering data and thinking, and then I was too tired to do it anymore!”
Twistsfirmly went on massaging her shoulders, wondering when she was going to explain why the new experience of responding appropriately to mental exhaustion had made her angry at herself, but Human Friend Freddy only grunted and changed the subject as if she had fully explained the matter.  

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A Cry Under the Stars - Excerpt 21 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – Sleepless

A Cry Under the Stars - Excerpt 21 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – Sleepless


Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.


Excerpt 21




Ama flexed her hands furiously and glared at the Pleiades. If that woman thought for a moment this would make her reconsider she could take her conceited, overbearing, ignorant attitude and shove it out one of the tiny little windows on the utterly useless hybrid she drove. Ama caught that vindictive train of thought and sent up a quick prayer for forgiveness.
“Not my place to judge,” she muttered flipping her pillow over to get at the cool side.
Hoping the fresh air would clear her mind and allow her to settle the woman slipped into a handy set of moccasins and stepped out of her room. The door was the one improvement she had asked the landlord to make. Sometimes a girl just needed to escape she had explained. Many the moonlit night she had wandered the garden or the forest around their unconventional house. Now she simply leaned back against the old wooden sides of the barn and stared up at the night sky.
“Oh Mother,” she groaned into the night. “How did I ever think I could handle this, handle them alone?”








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Sounds in the Night - Excerpt 20 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – A Confrontation

Sounds in the Night - Excerpt 20 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – A Confrontation


Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.


Excerpt 20


“Bard, beloved,” the light flickered through him tainted with amusement. “Just what do you think you are going to do?”
“The general only said that I was not to interact with the ember any more in the memorial garden. He said nothing about watching over him at his own pool!”
With a flickering pink wave of annoyance the smaller assassin slid down the tree he had been clinging to and assumed a rough bipedal form.
“Bard I know that you are not that foolish. You know well what the General meant.”
“The ember is still injured! I need to-“
“You need to what? Stalk him? Kidnap him? Break the vow you gave to the one human who has always treated us fairly from the time we landed on this planet?”
“I am not stalking him!” Bole flashed back in fiery red anger. “I wouldn’t have contacted him. I know our place here.”










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Through the Woods - Excerpt 19- Flying Sparks - A Novel – A Night Time Journey

Through the Woods - Excerpt 19- Flying Sparks - A Novel – A Night Time Journey


Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.


Excerpt 19


For some time Bard stood there hoping to calm his core with the warm memory replays. However far too soon the need to see the fragile little ember filled him again and he slid off into the night. The general had grown far too adapt at reading their colors and the bard did not want to have to explain the sudden rushes of bright orange guilt that were telling across his membrane.
The base fence posed little trouble to him. Shifting into a quadruped mode he had observed in some of the local omnivores Bard gained enough speed to easily vault the chain-link and razor wire that covered it. Once he reached the proper position he forced his mass up and into a thin stream. For a brief moment he hung in the air over the barrier with the moonlight shining through his membrane and his own core gleaming aquamarine. Then his mass flowed over to the Park side of the fence and he took the shape of the bear again. This time he made the effort to darken his membrane and roll around in the bark and pine needles in the forest floor. When he was done the surface area of his hide had absorbed the fibers and sorted them into a passable fur coat. He concentrated his higher thought functions in the specially formed cavity at the cranial end and let struts harden within in the shape of a skeleton. Shaking his head and snorting in satisfaction Bard lumbered off at a strictly regulation twenty-five miles an hour. He had never personally observed a bear traveling at that speed but that was what the books noted.



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Lava Pool - Excerpt 18 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – Where a Family Shares

Lava Pool - Excerpt 18 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – Where a Family Shares


Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.


Excerpt 18


Bard very rarely found himself angry at their hosts. For the short time they had been on this world the humans had shown them nothing but kindness and curiosity. They had even been allowed a large amount of freedom. Granted the air of this world was miserably still and dead and the cold seeped deep into his form, but the caverns had been provided for them and occasionally the thin atmosphere would come alive with music and he could dance to the alien throbbing.
That thought made him shift in the cleansing pool and flicker pale yellow with distress. Miner felt his stress and extended a massive pseudo pod to gently rub up and over Bard’s smaller form. Bard deliberately lit up brightly in bold green and the scattered light reflected off the natural cavern roof. One of the larger stalactites caught the light and began to flow down from the ceiling. It formed into a massive drop and fell into the rolling sulfurous pool. Once in the orange fluid it changed from the tone of the surrounding rock to a dull mustard yellow.
Bard trilled out several inquiring notes and swam over to where Bludgeon floated. The mass of the older warrior easily dwarfed the younger but the half-caste showed no fear. Keeping his colors a cheerful pink he began to rub against his colony mate. Gentle notes of music began to radiate from the dilithium sulfide around them. The pure warrior class began to relax and ever so slowly his colors turned to a murky green. He pulled away from his smaller companion who trilled in annoyance.
“Easy there little brother,” Bludgeon laughed. “You are done now. I am done now.”










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Family Contention - Excerpt 17 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – The Consequences

Family Contention - Excerpt 17 - Flying Sparks - A Novel – The Consequences


Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.


Excerpt 17


“You had baked camembert without me!” the shriek echoed through the large room, bouncing off the barn rafters and circling around the mighty trunk column.
Ama stared down at Em in bemusement and Drake groaned and leaned back in his chair.
“That is so unfair! I have been living here in this back water sinkhole for ages and ages without even one decent sushi joint for a hundred miles in any direction and this idiot wanders off into the forest and has us all worried sick for days on end and ends up getting a first class meal off of some hospital in the middle of nowhere! You could have at least saved some for me you selfish-“
“It was hospital food! I was not like I had any choice in the matter,” Drake cut in furious. “Here! You can have this if you want my food so bad!” He shoved the wooden bowl at Em who snorted and rolled his eyes.
“Yeah! Like the sauerkraut that I made last year is going to make up for the single most delicious cheese dish to ever come out of France- “
“Emerald Waters Undersun,” the voice cut through the cluttered center area in the large barn and immediately stilled the two boys.
Both knew better than to question that tone of voice. In it they both heard all the long hours Ama had been up worrying and the fire she had put into the search.










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An Observed Reunion - Excerpt 16- Flying Sparks - A Novel – Family Found

An Observed Reunion - Excerpt 16- Flying Sparks - A Novel – Family Found

Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.


Excerpt 16


“His colony called for him,” the assassin offered. “Secrecy is paramount. They cannot know.”
Bard flared green in agitation.
“He will have to hide this from his forebud.”
“Yes.” Sever agreed.
“That is not good,” Bard felt the flatness of the words even as he said them.
“Perhaps it would have been easier to leave him to extinguish in the bitter flood,” Sever offered.
The larger bard class turned his attention fully on the assassin class in shock even as he pulled away from his touch.
“Leave an ember to die?” he sent on a tight aimed pulse. “You make a poor joke Sever.”
There was silent darkness for a moment from where the other sat and then soft flickering.
“Still you think I jest,” Sever said in musing lights. “No matter. Just be certain to clean this taint before the sun sets.”
Bard’s attention was drawn away from his companion by the waves carrying the joyous reunion of the two buds and as always he pushed the disturbing thoughts inward to his core. Here was something good and bright. They carried the music of three cores between them but they harmonized delightfully.


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Anxious Waiting - Excerpt - Flying Sparks - A Novel – An Alien Perspective

Anxious Waiting - Excerpt - Flying Sparks - A Novel – An Alien Perspective

Drake McCarty’s leg was shattered deep in the wilderness, and as the flash flood closed over him, he looked death in the face.
When he wakes up in a hospital bed, in a military base that shouldn’t exist, he has a whole leg and a furious sister to deal with.
Drake is sworn to keep a secret he doesn’t understand, but whatever pulled him out of the flood, isn’t quite done with him yet, because even if you leave nothing but footprints, the things that walk the forest can still follow you home.


Excerpt 15


Bard shifted uneasily in the dim hanger they always waited in when there were visitors while they were above ground. The rest of his colony stood around him glowing with sympathy, their radiation tuned to hide them from any prying eyes or sensors. If they did not understand his unease they did share it willingly, letting brief flickers light their rounded forms from within. The ember he had rescued from the fierce song had been taken from him too soon. He could feel it down to his most insulated shard. He should have kept him many hours longer and sang him fully well but the human healer had insisted on seeing and treating the ember and Bard could not refuse.
It was not that Bard questioned the knowledge that the healer held, but there was little music either martial or medicinal in O’Beirne. Both must have been there once, their mark still showed in his every light, but something had recently drained the young human and left him ill suited for the treatment of such a sensitive young ember. Bard shifted again and let out a worried trill. Miller came up beside him and pressed soothingly into his shoulder. Bard hummed gratefully but kept his attention on the humming of the primitive and discordant song rider.




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Humans are Weird – Indulgence

 Humans are Weird – Indulgence


Tumblesenthuiastically swam down towards the garden with quick eager strokes of his appandages. If the rich taste the waves were carrying up to him were to be believed, the first of the giant volvan globes was finally ripe. By far the most productive of the cultivated colonials he had brought with him from the homeworld the volvans absolutely thrived in the new environment of this world despite, or perhaps because of the colder temperatures. Just like the bloom patterns on the home world the distal most node had bloomed, fruited, and ripened weeks ahead of the rest.
The sandy substrate brushed his appendages lightly as Tumblesenthuiastically touched bottom and then angled his body up to come at the amber globe from below. It was catching the noon sun and refracting the colors through the water so that every caress of the water tasted of the sunlight. Tumblesenthusiastically built speed and caught the base of the globe with several appendages. He felt the near imperceptible jolt of separation with sanctification. Only the ripest of globes detached that easily. The outer membrane of the globe was full of air pockets at this stage and it easily floated just below the surface of the water. Tumblesenthusiastically followed it up and tasted the water carefully, until he was able to clearly make out the flavor of the stream that ran past the human encampment. He struck swimming at a stead pace, nudging the floating volvan globe ahead of him.
Despite floating well the globe awkwardly caught every current and wasn’t particularly easy to push direct up the stream that led out of the open bay and up to the human encampment. The second sun was near setting by the time Tumblesenthuiastically rolled the globe up the handy access ramp the humans had built to launch their watercraft.
“What in the world is that?” demanded the voice of a human.
“It is the Matriarch’s globe!” Tumblesenthuiastically declared as he pushed it towards the cloth structures the humans had set up for sleeping quarters. “Oh! I am so happy you are here in time for the fruiting! We haven’t had a matriarch to gift the first globe to since this was just a research base at first and it only got cleared for colonization last year. I know you can eat it. The human rangers who were here last season loved them, but there were no matriarchs in that batch.”
Tumblesenthuiastically paused and waited eagerly for her response.
“I see,” Human Friend Ellen Anderson said in the slow tone that Tumblesenthuiastically had come to learn meant the human was processing new information.
So he decided to let her process as he wrestled the globe towards the human’s cool food storage device. She was reclining on one of the raised platforms humans used for resting when they didn’t want to sleep and was staring at him from under the wide floppy solar radiation shield she preferred. Her four primary appendages were covered in loose plant fiber cloth of a highly reflective color and here ten adorably stubby secondary appendages were shown to fine advantage in abrasion protection that only shielded the base of her appendages from the friction of the ground.
“So that melon looking thing is for me is what you’re saying?” she finally asked.
“Yes!” Tumblesenthuiastically said. “It is an old, old tradition on my homeworld. Well, at least in the pools around me. I think the other pools as well. The first volvan globe is marked for the oldest mother in the area. It was quite the competition. If your volvan fruited later you would have to go further to find a matriarch who hadn’t received one yet. My grandfather once raced a cousin over five hundred unds to get his vovlan globe to great-great grandmother first! And we haven’t had any grandmothers at all on this planet yet!”
“I’ve only been a grandmother for a few months,” Human Friend Ellen Anderson said with a laugh in her voice. “I don’t know if I count as a matriarch.”
“Oh you are more than old enough to count!” Tumblesenthuiastically said, with a dismissive wave of his appendages. “Surrounding that, you just seem old and matriarch like.”
Human Friend Ellen Anderson pursed her lips at that and stared at him quietly with an oddly stressed pheromone scent before she laughed and reached down for the globe. He wondered if she didn’t like receiving personal compliments. The globe, easily an und long, filled both her hands and she grunted as she lifted it onto a handy work table instead of carrying it towards the food cooler.
“How do I eat this?” she asked.
“The humans preferred it chilled and raw,” Tumblesenthuiastically said. “They said it was very much like the melons of Earth as to preparation and serving size. Though the membrane is quite edible for humans, the all preferred the inner flesh.”
“And how big is an Undulate serving?” She asked as she produced a large knife from the table top and started carving the fragrant flesh of the globe.
“Oh no!” Tumblesenthuiastically said. “It is your melon. If you don’t mind the tradition demands you eat the whole thing.”
“That might take awhile,” Human Friend Ellen Anderson said, running her binocular vision over the large globe.
“They would last for weeks on the homeworld,” Tumblesenthuiastically agreed, “but you will no doubt know what rate of eating is best for you.”
The human nodded as her teeth bit into the amber flesh of the globe. Her face relaxed and the pheromones that flushed the air around them suggested delight.
“This is amazing!” She declared once she was done chewing. “There’s plenty of sugars but it’s almost savory! Thank you Tumbles!”
“You are more than welcome,” Tumblesenthuiastically replied, and was embarrassed to note that his voice wobbled with fatigue.
The human switched her attention from the globe to him and her voice dropped to a croon.
“Oh, you swam this here didn’t you?” she asked. “I didn’t here the hover craft. You must be exhausted. Why don’t you to have a rest in the still water pond before we talk any more.”
Tumblesenthuiastically waved an agreement to her and shuffled off to the small patch of still water the humans maintained for visiting Undulates as all the water around their base was flowing a bit too much for a truly comfortable rest. Human Friend Ellen Anderson followed him and retrieved a nice relaxing algae scent ball from one of the high storage shelves humans favored. He accepted it and drifted holding it for several hours until his appendages felt firm again. Flexing lightly he scrambled out of the pond and out to where Human Friend Ellen Anderson was to ask her what to do with the algae scent ball.
To his shock he found her sprawled out in her chair giving off an odd mix of satisfaction and distress signal.
“Human Friend Ellen Anderson?” he asked uneasily. “Are you well?”
She emitted a low groan and lifted the brim of her radiation shield revealing an expression he had come to learn meant mild embarrassment.
“That was a good melon, globe thing,” she said.
Something about the sentence seemed off to him and he paused to mull over it.
“Pardon me Human Friend Ellen Anderson,” he said slowly, “but don’t you mean it is a good globe?”
She shook her head in negation and pointed to the work table. Very curious now Tumblesenthuiasticlly climbed the table legs and to his astonishment found only the stripped membrane fragments remaining.
“You ate the whole thing in a few hours?” he demanded.
She peeled back her lips showing her teeth, thoroughly stained with the amber juice.
“Was all mine,” she said, “hot day and it was real good.”
She dropped back into her chair with a groan and Tumblesenthuically prodded the algae scent ball in absent thought. He had seen many humans enjoy themselves to the extent of his own detriment, but it had been his understanding that that behavior was the province of the young and foolish. He was more than pleased that Human Friend Ellen Anderson found so much pleasure in his gift, but it raised some interesting thought currents. He wondered if this susceptibility to over indulge in fruit on a hot day was particular to matriarchs, a privilege of their status, or if it was simply another human quirk he would have to report home to the central University.

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