Free Naked by Viola Grace

love from me?”
    Cierra smiled. “I will accept friendship. I make no pressure for folk to love me. I love and that is enough.”
    Ahket got the baby away from Sebach, and he was now dancing with her in the square.
    “What will you do next?”
    “Well, once we have a decent feed crop generated, I will make a list of animals that can survive on Sebach, with her help. In another year, there will be wildlife on the surface, though it may take some getting used to. Gaining an entire predator-prey population will be hard to manage.”
    “Somehow, I think you will manage just fine, daughter.” She squeezed Cierra’s hand, and they watched Sapya step in to grab the baby for his turn around the dance floor.
    “I suppose I will have to rescue her soon.”
    Ninya began to scream in endless wails.
    Laughing, Cierra went to retrieve the infant that quieted the moment she touched it. “Or she can save herself. Well done, Ninya.”
    The baby gurgled and raised her hands. The lights in the square went off and then came back on again.
    In baby talk, near Ninya’s ear, she whispered, “And we will deal with that, too.”
    Ahket came over and took his daughter again now that she was soothed, and the music continued long into the small hours.
    It was a great way to get a welcome into a community. Cierra just wished that control over electricity hadn’t been part of it. It was a bit of a buzz kill, but having a daughter with power was better than having her be worried about the larger, stronger N’ga-Sebach all her life.
    Cierra would call it a draw.
     

 
     
     
Author’s Note
     
     
    Book went weird. No excuses. Sorry.
    Next time… Neutral .
     
    Thanks for reading,
     
    Viola Grace
     

 
     
About the Author
     
     
    Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.
    An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.
    Listening to readers has gotten her this far, and with her 300th short story looming before the end of 2014, she will continue to listen in the future.