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Chapter Thirty-Nine

The music of the party changed from instrumental to song. I heard a wow in the audience. The song was "Completemente Enamorados" which translates in English "Completely in love," performed by Chayanne. The song was a slow ballad, an oldie, but I totally loved it. Queen Kristta approached me with other Sha people.

"What an amazing melody!"

"Blah! I prefer the high notes of the Tumpla any day of the week. This music is ridiculous," another Sha member said.

"Anabella, come here, quick. I would like you to meet some more Senate members," the queen said waving at me. I walked towards her as she continued to speak to the other three Sha people she was accompanied with.

"Isn't she lovely?"

"For a human I suppose," the other one said. I swallowed hard. I hoped that this conversation wouldn't be too uncomfortable. I approached the group and greeted them as kindly as I could, bowing to each member.

"This is Shuttu, Brutt and Luckutus," The queen said. Hard names for me, I thought. It would take me a while to remember them all. Shuttu and Brutt had long orange hair and golden eyes, Luckutus was dark haired, but he had purple eyes. Luckutus was the shortest of the three, in fact I think he was the shortest of all of the Sha people I had seen. Shuttu on the hand was chubby looking and Brutt wore glasses. Then another Sha came towards us.

"Oh, this is Tamil," The queen said. Tamil had long, blond hair and blue eyes. He smiled and grabbed my hand to kiss it.

"Nice to meet you Anabella. The prince has told me nothing but wonders," Tamil said. I smiled back.

"I'm sure he has..." Luckutus sneered back.

"Luckutus we are not all species supremacists," Tamil said.

"Sure, even though the evidence of mixing with this species suggests that it is overwhelmingly dangerous to our kind," Luckutus said.

"Evidence?" I asked, but I seemed to be ignored in the conversation. My throat went dry.

"Luckutus, not evidence, but theory," Shuttu said.

"Oh, that's right, nowadays nothing that we see is evidence, but mere theories. My dear you look very lovely and I don't mean you to particularly be a threat to us, but certainly your kind is not as charming as the prince describes," Luckutus said.

"Luckutus, that is enough. Be polite," the queen said.

"Of course, queen Kristta. My apologies to you Miss Anabella," he said bowing towards me. Frankly, I could care less of his hypocrite politeness. I wanted to know what was going on in my home planet.

"Luckutus, may I ask how do you know about my species?"

"Anabella, this conversation is political. This is a party. We should be here relaxing, not talking about politics," the queen said. Rox had a tray filled with glasses of wine and as he walked past by us, the queen grabbed two glasses of them and she passed one of them to me. I grabbed it, but didn't drink from it. The queen however was sipping it with joy.

"Queen, it's not my wish to be disruptive in any way, but I haven't seen my planet for... years."

"You haven't missed out on much honey, I can promise you that," Luckutus said.

"Luckutus, that's enough!" Shuttu said.

"How dare you speak of these matters with Anabella! The prince himself ordered that this should not be discussed outside of the political realm," Tamil said with a loud voice. Some of the party members now looked over at our way and Luckutus cleared his throat.