Spirited Away: an Alien Erotic Romance

Marauders: Chapter Four -Guarded

GUARDED

It was the worst roller coaster ride Shanti had ever been on in her life. The ship bumped up and down, went faster, rose higher, dipped lower. Shanti gripped her stomach certain she was about to lose the lentils she’d eaten for dinner at the ashram.

Then she felt a hand on her shoulder. She looked up in to the large eyes of Niao.

“Do not be afraid.” The little boy entwined his long fingers with Shanti’s. “All will be well.”

Calmness washed over Shanti. Like literally washed over her. She felt it creep through her fingers and up her arms.

Shanti yanked her fingers free. “What are you doing to me?”

The child looked guileless. “Giving you zen.”

“Zen?”

“Peace.”

Another bump sent Shanti’s stomach lurching. She reached out for the boy’s hand. Upon contact, her stomach relaxed, her nerves calmed. She looked again into this child’s eyes. Eyes so much like Chen’s. The same wide-eyed wonder. The same welcoming smile.

A movement to the side caught her attention. The other one, the darker one braced himself in the middle of the floor, his hand on a staff, a scowl on his face.

Silence reigned for long moments until Shanti could take no more.

“So you guys are aliens?”

“We are Eloheem,” Niao answered. The fingers of his free hand reached out to pet Shanti’s wrists as though she were a frightened child and he was the adult to soothe her fears.

“And you’re twins?”

“We are brothers. Eloh are born in pairs.”

Shanti watched the boy’s mouth, noticing that it did move as he communicated with her. But it moved as though she were watching a poorly dubbed Saturday Morning Kung Fu movie. “You’re not speaking English, are you?”

“No, I am speaking Eloh.”

“Am I speaking Eloh?”

“No, you are speaking your Earth language.”

“How am I understanding you?”

“You have entwined with Chen-Na.”

Shanti assumed entwined was their idea of had toe-curling sex. She was not going to ask for clarification from two children.

“The exchange of essence allowed him to connect with your mind, including your language. Chen-Na showed us your speech pattern. We can communicate telepathically now. Language is easy for younglings. Our minds are still forming. The adults’ brain patterns are largely set in their waves and new patterns are hard to form.”

“So I don’t have to speak to talk with you?”

“You are too weak,” this came from the darker twin standing guard. “You don’t know how to block all of your thoughts.” He glared at Shanti. “Unfortunately.”

Shanti was not about to let a child talk that way to her. She jumped to her feet. “Now listen here, you need to check that attitude.”

In response, the boy puffed up his chest. “Hsing-I put me in charge-“

“What’s your name?”

He frowned at her interrution, but answered. “My name is Nse.”

Nse bristled as Shanti advanced. “Nse, where I come from, little boys get spanked if they dare to raise their voices to adults.”