Blazing Serious by Viola Grace Read Free Book Online

looked at his chubby feet. “Do you think you can hang on?”
    He chirped defensively.
    She sighed and got to her feet, putting his slight weight on her shoulder. “If you fall off, don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
    He dug his claws into her shoulder, and he was surprisingly stable. They left her quarters and headed down to the dining hall.
    “How did they get you here? They are really protective of their environment.”
    An imaged of Huros lying pale with large holes in his body and scalp hit her. The healing was performed and the marks disappeared. Huros jolted awake, and there was terror in his eyes as he took in the world around him. The view that Tremor was showing her was from the medical recorder.
    Jimra staggered to the wall and braced herself on it as she was run through his physical recovery and mental deterioration. The recorder showed Yoris making a case for Huros getting a Yaluthu and a woman with a serious face and a raptor on her shoulder taking on the Ypra government. When that didn’t work, a woman with glowing eyes and a strange voice did it.
    Tremor was a volunteer. He wanted to be with the people who needed him and that meant Jimra as well as Huros. He was an equal opportunity fluff ball.
    Jimra went to the dining hall and fielded questions about her new companion and Tremor.
    She had tea and ate her breakfast, giving Tremor the pieces of fruit that he asked for in her thoughts.
    Just four months earlier, she wouldn’t have imagined sharing her mind with anyone, let alone a fluffy ball of good-natured help. Sharing her thoughts with two beings was a little surreal, and it made keeping her mind on her reality a little difficult.
    When she was done, she got back to her feet and followed her impulses to the administration offices. Huros was standing and speaking with one of the other analysts. He paused in midsentence and came over to her, kissing her softly. Tremor chirped in approval.
    “You look better, Jimra.”
    She looked at him, and the fear and hesitation that she had first seen in him, and first felt, were gone. “I am better. Tremor and I just had breakfast, and I ended up following you here.”
    He smiled. “Yoris wants to see us. I am done here if you want to go.”
    “I am up for it.”
    He put his arm around her back, and she relaxed at the contact. Whatever had happened between them, contact was important to her feeling normal. She just wished she had known about it before she had touched him. It would have made her feel less like an idiot.
     

Chapter Seven
     
     
    Yoris looked at their close seating in his office, and he gave a resigned nod. “You both look better.”
    Jimra made a face. “I wouldn’t have gone off world if I had any idea what would happen.”
    Yoris nodded. “I know. I forgot to tell the dispatchers that you were off the roster until further notice.”
    She blinked. “Hey, that is my income stream.”
    He chuckled. “You will be fine. When you and Huros are officially bonded, we can send you three on missions together.”
    Jimra was still unsure of how to react to the fact that her blood had made the decision for her. Huros took her hand, and Tremor rubbed against her. She blushed when she realised they could both feel what she was feeling.
    “My family is available the moment that you give the word, Master Yoris.” Huros nodded.
    “Three days from now. There is a meeting set for the Uramiss family seat. It will be dinner and Jimra will need a gown. The fabricators are standing by.”
    Huros inclined his head. “I will notify my people.”
    “How many people are going to be there? It sounds like quite a few.”
    Yoris shrugged, “We have thirty-two folk in our family. Huros’s family is slightly smaller but still will bring about twenty-three people to the event.”
    She scrambled around in her mind for the names and finally found it. “Prime families?”
    “Of course. Only the prime families carry the genes for talents.” Yoris smiled.
    “And I