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GEORGIE

I wake up to find Vektal watching ain

I yawn, rubbinghave you been awake?”

The big alien shrugs, his face inches froled under the furs in the cave that’s now , I wake up with Vektal beside, blunt fingers throughit forward overhis hand down my arm “I have been awake for some time It is my custom to wake up before dawn”

“Oh” I gri you fro?”

“No” He touches ain

“Then why are you staring?” I ask hi , maybe I can steal a few more minutes of shut-eye

“Because I like to watch you sleep,” he says in that delicious, deep voice of his “It is bad to watch you?”

“Not bad, no I’m just not used to it” I sain, I’ with someone Or this planet Or any of this, really”

Vektal wraps big arainst hi my hair “Does this make you unhappy?”

I open e thing to ask “Unhappy?”

“You do not sht I want to hear you laughhis best to pronounce the hard G sounds “Is so you?”