The Maxis sovereign

Chapter 8

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Jess

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Zed

It's been a whole week since landing day and things are starting to get normal. Construction of roadways between towns is underway, most of Kieas people are working on it with little help from me and Hendrix. Kieas people seem to be a very unified group. They work ten times harder than most and never seem to tire. It's strange, but then again, they are aliens. Who knows what else we will learn about them.

Meanwhile Malaki is overseeing the drone activity all day and Hendrix is usually helping the engineering team with heavy lifting. On occasion I do help, but I still can't face either of the guys right now for longer than a few moments.

So I've been helping Kiea with office work. Shes very organized, that's noticeable. But in a way she needed a secretary who knew how the UN worked and more about cultures and current states of the world. When she asked me to help her, I was shocked. Why me? Im a nobody. But I said yes anyway

This is something I saw coming from a million miles away. I knew at some point they would end up together. The two of them fit nicely, but I thought they'd be more obvious about it. The secretiveness of their relationship is what hurts.

That was what I was not ready for.

"Hey zed?" Kiea calls me from her office, pulling me out of my head, I turn around and smile.

Shes honestly the one thing that helps me not think about their secrets. She is so thoughtful, and shes already becoming more and more like a friend than a business partnet as the days go by.

"Yeah kiki?" I tested the new nick name I came up with last night, and she looks at me funny, like the words that left my mouth were a language she didn't know.

"Is that a nickname?" She asks, her eyes squinting in observation. It's become very obvious that she has no real concept of what is normal in any social situation.

"Well, I mean, Ive always had one for Malaki, and Hendrix.So, I uh-, I figured since were friends I'd give you one too." I smile at her while I walk over to my workstation, she made me. I mean, I still have work to do even though I love here. I lean my back against it facing her.

"Hmm, I guess we are friends aren't we.". Her eyes were cast down like she was more telling herself that than me. I saw her mouth curve upwards.

"Come look at this." She continues with a smile.

Her engineers have given her a three-dimensional layout of the town and she was devising ways to reuse resources here for homes for the people here as wll as future plans to scout locations for future towns. It was taking up all her time.

"I was wondering if there was anything that people of earth would like different. I just want to make sure that what my people are building here is something that the people of earth are accommodated for."

"Like here-" She points to the central ring of buildings between the larger housing complex. I look to her confused.

"This is out plan for the public housing facilities. On my ship this is what lower class cicvilians used. It made it so everyone had a local marketplace to clean clothes, use facilities, even wash up. Of course, every house will have some sort of shower, but here there are baths, soaking tubs, and skincare

"Skincare facilities for commoners? My god Kiea what kind of bathroom do you have?" My eyes widen, does she have some sort of laser cleaner with eucalyptus steam and robots for face mask.