Contagion (Gennekt, #2)

by Amanda Milo

I didn’t get to ask the ruffians if they knew Skynan.

I sniff and notch back my antennae. “I’ve never been so female-handled in all my life,” I inform her primly.

“Are you always this funny?” she asks. I nearly trip over my own feet. “Funny? No one has ever accused me of being humorous.” Aurora smiles wider at me. “You’re funny.” “I am not,” I say with gravity.

Most unexpectedly, she coughs all this lung-clogging water she’s holding… right into my mouth. That’s not all that happens. She vomits. In. My. Mouth. “GALGGGAAH!” I shout, lunging back from her, jaws agape, her vomit-water and my saliva trailing down my chin as I reject the option for it to enter my throat. DISGUSTING!

“If we’re lost out here for much longer, and our situation becomes the direst of circumstances, you have my permission to eat me after I perish.” “Shut up, Simmi,” Aurora says on a laugh. “But only after I perish,” I stress.