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“I fail to distinguish a date from a date date, however the intercultural guide to human and Voraxian interactions produced by Svera and her team of experts detail the act of this date in great depth. It is an act of courtship, usually initiated by the male. I am here to initiate such a courtship and ask you to
Something about the act touches me on a deep, fundamental level as I watch her green features scrunch up in concentration. She’s giving me her clothes so that I’ll be warm. I look away just as she finishes and step up to the door, pulling a pair of thin, untanned leather gloves onto my hands.
“Enough,” he says and there is so much in that one word that it hollows out my insides. I close my eyes. I follow his deep, even breath with my breath. “He cannot harm you. Nothing can.” I nod, unable to speak. The rumbling gets louder, forming a shield around me. “You do not fight for survival, not anymore. You are a warrior now and you fight for the tribe, for the hunt.”