So I reach out and grab at his wildly thrashing tail, sliding my hand over it in a caress. Tarekh stops. His big frame openly shudders and he drops the alien. Kivian immediately grabs the stranger by his collar, hauling him away from us while Tarekh turns to me with an incredulous look on his face that’s half outrage, half heat. I just lick my lips and give him a look of longing. “Take me back to the ship?”
