The Worlds of S.E. Smith, Vol. 1 by S.E. Smith EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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“Hey, Skeeter, Gracie, wait up!” Hopps called out.
Skeeter stopped and turned when she heard their names being
called above the buzz of the market. A dark green and yellow head briefly
popped into sight above the crowd of pedestrians. Seconds later, the head
reappeared.
She laughed and waved as the amphibious alien creature jumped again. The
frog-like creature bounced from one unwary shoulder or head to another
until he landed in front of Skeeter and Gracie with a flourish of long arms
and a deep bow.
“Good afternoon, Ladies.”
“Hey, Hopps,” Skeeter greeted with a laugh and a huge hug.
“Hi, Hopps,” Gracie said.
“I wasn’t sure I was going to catch up with you two. You’re moving pretty
fast. Where are you going?” Hopps asked in a slightly breathless tone.
“We are on a mission. We… Ugh, sorry,” Skeeter muttered when she
accidentally stepped into the path of a large, scaly Bulltian. She jumped to
the side to keep from being run over.
“Get out the way,” the man growled.
“What a jerk,” Gracie muttered.
Skeeter snorted and clutched her satchel close to her body to keep from
knocking into anyone else.
“Bulltian miners are always rude. I think it is because they are always
hungry. I probably would be the same way if I had to work shoveling ore all
day,” Skeeter said.
“Tabby’s like that. If you don’t feed her, she gets meaner than a
Wuzzletooth horn toad,” Hopps joked, falling into step with them when
they turned.
“Speaking of Tabby—” Skeeter began.
“Hey, Gracie. Hi, Skeeter.”
Skeeter shook her head. Where there was one tadpole, there would be
others. The Horntip siblings never went anywhere without each other. Guilt
and remorse swept through Skeeter. Hopps, Puddles, Tabby, and Sticks
were her former First Mate’s kids. Froget had died attempting to protect her
when a group of ruthless mercenaries boarded her freighter. The men were
searching for Gracie’s daughter, Violet. Skeeter had unwittingly rescued the
little girl from her mercenary kidnappers and had come close to dying
during the attack. She would have if not for Krac and the crew of a Zion
warship.
Skeeter pushed the depressing thoughts away. She and Krac had not only
adopted Froget’s four tadpoles, but Violet and Adam as well… unofficially.
Who cared that Froget’s kids were grown and that Violet and Adam had
parents? Skeeter liked to think that she and Krac were part-time famparents. They were more than friends. They were family. Violet and Adam
loved Skeeter’s dad as well.
“Did Skeeter say where they were going?” Puddles asked.
“Not yet,” Hopps replied.
Skeeter rolled her eyes. “We’re on a mission… a secret mission,” she
responded.
Gracie laughed and nodded. “A super-secret mission.”
“Oh… I adore super-secret missions,” Tabby responded, popping up beside
the two women.
Gracie laughed again. “It looks like the guys called the cavalry on us,” she
teased.
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