Ruby Lionsdrake Is Back On My Blog! #PetsInSpace @goblinwriter

Ruby Lionsdrake is back on my blog again today, giving us another great snippet of her Pets In Space 3 story, Quashi. I still want one of these great pets, LOL!

On to the post!




Chanda, concentrating on not tripping or dropping the box as they navigated through the tube and into a noisy cargo hold, did not respond. She accidentally jostled the box as she bumped her foot on the raised airlock hatch frame, and a concerned trill came from inside. 

 

If she’d had a hand free, she would have scratched her head. Lab rats didn’t trill, did they?

That is the end of the first scene in my novella, Quashi, a story of romance, adventure, and a quirky new alien animal species.

Quashi is a stand-alone adventure in my Mandrake Company science fiction romance series. It features a new hero, a new heroine, and a new creature that they’ll all meet together on the mercenary ship that sails about their vast star system. My beta readers have jokingly called the ship the Love Boat, since there’s a hookup in every story. Regular fans of the series will be pleased to get updates on some old friends, and new readers can easily jump in without prior experience with the existing adventures. 

Here’s another snippet to whet your appetite:

“Captain,” Ankari said—even if they slept together, she was always careful to be professional with him around others, “we need to go back to the station.”

“We can’t,” Mandrake said. “We’ve got a new job waiting for us. They need us there yesterday.”

“This is important,” Keys said, stepping forward and snapping her fingers at the younger woman. “Chanda.”

The woman—Chanda—looked to be in her mid-twenties. She quirked an eyebrow—a sarcastic eyebrow?—at the finger snapping but didn’t object vocally. She stepped forward and lifted her arms to show off something she’d been holding against her chest. Something bluish-green, oval-shaped, and furry with a pair of antennae sticking out of the top of its body. It didn’t have a head that Kor could see, nor even eyes. If it had legs, they were underneath its fluffy form.

“What is it?” Mandrake asked.

“I have no idea,” Keys said, “but there are dozens of them in the box I received from Dokler’s Animals and Specimens. I was supposed to receive lab rats. I paid for lab rats. Captain, this—” Keys flung her arm toward Chanda and her fluffy burden, “—is not a lab rat.”

An uncertain trilling came from the furry creature.

“Unfortunate that you received the wrong order,” Mandrake said, “but we can’t go back.”

You can find out what happens next in Quashi in Embrace the Passion: Pets in Space 3.

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