Kniam: A Terraneu Novel (4 page)

"I will kill it right away.”
 
Knollig vowed.

He grabbed her by the arm and jerked her to standing. Kniam took offense
for some reason and violently knocked Knollig aside, since he was still holding
her arm took her with him. In the shuffle between the two men, she stumbled and
Kniam gently steadied her against his side. Everyone was yelling, Amber
included. "I'll have you know I am free of any diseases! If anything is
making you sick it didn’t come from me!"

Ailech spoke up, “The dirty creature must not be allowed to contaminate
everyone, who knows what vile disease it is carrying. We need to run a
diagnostic on the medical unit in case it missed something…”

Amber turned to glare at Ailech, the big jerk. “Now just a damn
minute…vile is…”

"Everyone stop!" Kneus commanded, and they all paused mid yell,
"Knollig, stand guard in technology. Ailech guard from caging.” At his
command the two men bowed low to Kniam and moved to opposite doors. “I am
putting the Square on lockdown, nobody will be allowed in, and nobody out.” He
did some button pushing, and then turned back, “Kniam, please calm down and
describe your symptoms so we can get to the bottom of this."

Kniam spoke softly, "Something is happening in my pants.” He
gestured to his groin area. “There is a painful swelling in this area. The only
conclusion is that I am having a reaction to the creature. It got more severe
the longer I studied it."

This was beyond bizarre, "First off I am not a
"creature"...I am a
female
. A female from Earth that happened
to fall into this crazy rabbit hole, from which it seems there is no escaping!
I do not have a disease, I am not an "it", or a "pet" or a
“specimen”...I am just a person!” She paused in her rant to take ragged breath,
“I have a name, and it’s Amber. Ammm-brrrrr?"

She was gesturing and moving around the room, talking with her hands as
was her habit. “Secondly, Mr. Hunky there has an
erection
,” She paused
in her pacing to glance at the person with the affliction, “I’m flattered,
believe me I am, but what is the big deal?" She looked up into purple eyes
and lost her train of thought. She jerked her eyes back to his face to get her
wayward thoughts under control.
"
What was I saying? Oh yes...you
getting turned on by me doesn't mean I've given you a disease!"

Kneus stared at me, then at Kniam, then back to me, "For clarification
what is this...’erection’ you talk of?"

Amber’s mouth dropped open. Really? They wanted her to explain an
erection? "You guys are kidding me right?” When all she got was glares,
she started with, “Uh...let’s see. When a man is
aroused
by something,
blood flows to his...I don't know what you call your man parts... but blood
flows there, to that organ. On Earth where I am from they have a lot of names
for it. Beaver Basher? Chubby? Donger? Johnson? Manhood? One-eyes-trouser
snake? The Little Kniam? Twig and berries… it’s a penis." She gestured at
the region on Kniam, her face flaming red, "When it is "erect"
then he is ready to have sex." That whole explanation sounded kind of lame
to her, but it beat standing there saying nothing.

Kneus just gaped at her with his mouth open, and Kniam looked at her like
she had told him he had leprosy.

"I am not ugly, fat or disgusting you know. Is it so far fetched
that he would find me sexually desirable? I mean I am a woman, he is a
man...and this body is pretty smoking hot if I do say so myself!" She
gestured from her head, over her breasts and down her legs.

“What is “sex”? You have said it multiple times, and explain “desire” as
well.” Kneus demanded.

She was in a room with two grown men giving what was turning out to be a
sexual education class, and the funny thing was, this wasn’t the craziest thing
that had happened to her today!

 
“When a males sex organ is erect
he is ready for intercourse, I already said that part. Either you insert that
part into a female in what is called “sexual intercourse” or you take matters
into your own hands...” She gestured at the front of Kniams pants. She had
never in her life had a discussion like this one, and she didn’t want to have
to ever do it again! “Sexual desire is what makes a person ready for sexual
intercourse if both parties are willing to participate, or as I said, you go it
alone. That is as much of an explanation as you are getting!”

Kniam got a concentrated look on his face, then “I have notified the
council. Knaleg wanted to come into quarantine with us, but I advised him to be
patient and wait. We can hold the meeting when this issue is resolved."

"What? Wait a minute...you didn't talk to anyone..." Kniam
interrupted me before I could continue with my rant.

"I talked with them here..." he tapped his temple. “We need to
understand a lot more about you little…fee-ma-le before this situation gets out
of control." Done talking to me for the moment, he walked to the wall by
the box and did a bit more button pushing. Turning around, moving to a table
and patting its surface he said, “Sit here.”

I had seen enough movies to know I wasn’t getting on that exam table!
"Ok. I have had it, I'm ready to wake up now. I don't know what you want
to "understand" about me, but you can know this for a certainty:
 
I am not going to let you dissect me and do
experiments on me!"

Kneus looked at Kniam and they were quiet for a moment, Kniam shrugged...

Kniam put both palms up in a conciliatory gesture, "I have no
interest in "dissecting" you little female. Please sit here on this
table so that we can talk, and you can be more comfortable." He turned and
grabbed something out of drawer that she couldn't even tell was in the wall,
swung around and held out a medical gown.

“At least it’s something to cover up with.” She snatched the gown from
Kniam, and struggled to get the arms in the right holes, the sides tucked
around and tied. The nice thing about being around these giant men, is that the
cover was long enough to go to her knees. The bad thing is that medical robes
must have a universal rule that your ass has to be hanging out. So she wrapped
it around a couple of times, and held it closed with one hand, viola! Her butt
was covered.

She looked up expectantly and Kniam patted the medical table again.
Glaring Amber gingerly tried to climb up on the table, but it was too high. She
had to let go of the back of the robe to use both hands, and still couldn’t get
up. She gave a running jump a try and didn't make it. She swung a leg over and
hopped on one leg for leverage and still didn't make it. There was an agonized
groan from the direction of Kniam, so she looked over her shoulder and saw him
standing there with glazed eyes locked on her bouncing ass globes.

"Serves you right for staring! You could lend me a hand and help me
up!" Who said chivalry wasn't dead? Kniam stalked over and she was afraid
for a second he was just going to throw her onto the table. She held her breath
as he gently reached his hands around her waist. Hot damn…they almost met on either
side! She really loved this new body! He held her gently, his fingers
this
close
to the underside of her breasts and tugged her into his chest.
Without missing a beat, or groaning over her weighing too much he dragged her
higher until…he abruptly set her on the table, damn!

 
Frustration of the sexual kind
was humming in the air between them. Then she turned lobster red when she
realized that they weren’t alone in the room! She was such an intergalactic
slut that she was drooling over a stranger, which wasn’t her thing to begin
with, and she was doing it with an audience. So what if he was a smoldering,
melt your underwear hottie. Her logical side was screaming,
Hello she wasn’t
wearing any underwear for him to melt, and to wake up…she was in very real danger
!
Not to be denied, her effervescent side kicked in telling her,
Hey she
needed to set an example here. She didn’t want them to think Earth girls
weren’t easy
! This thought set off another round of uncontrolled laughter.
Damn that nervous habit!

“Are you well little female?” The concern on Kniam’s face brought her to
her senses.

"Thank you...uhhhh….Kniam?"

"Yes, I am Kniam." His eyes locked on hers.

“I am Amber.” She held out my hand. He stared at her, then his gaze
dropped to her hand, then back to her face. He glanced around at where Kneus
was standing, and they did that silent talk, then they both shrugged.

She was taken by surprise when he reached over and
grabbed her forearm. “Is that how you greet each other?” she was hoping that it
wasn’t some high insult to hold out your hand. Maybe his taking her forearm was
an agreement to fight to the death! “We shake hands, like this.” She pulled her
hand slowly down his forearm, her fingers didn’t even make it halfway around
his arm. Even when she got to his wrist she couldn’t make her fingers meet.
Once she got their hands palm-to-palm she did the up/down motion of shaking
hands.

His brow furrowed and he stepped closer to her until he was directly in
front of her. If he got any nearer she would have to open her legs to avoid
kneeing him. He flipped their hands so that he could get a better look at her
fingers. With an obvious curiosity, he slowly brought them level with his eyes.
Her hand was pale, compared to his darker tan but she wasn’t sure what the fascination
was. He examined each finger and fingernail then he brought her hand up to his
nose. He inhaled deeply as he ran his nose along her palm and across her
fingers. It was as his tongue swiped out and tickled her fingers that she
snapped out of it.

She quickly jerked her hand back. Now hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Maybe initiating physical contact wasn’t the smartest idea, how was she to know
what he would do. Well, since he no longer had her hand to examine, he moved to
her head. Or more precisely what was on her head. He ran his fingers through
her hair, starting at her scalp, and working to the ends. He twined it through
his fingers, and used them like a comb. Fisting a handful, he brought it to his
nose and inhaled. His smoldering purple eyes locked onto her.

Suddenly breaking his gaze from hers Kniam’s eyes flew to Kneus, and they
seemed to be having a discussion. Kniam's face was getting redder and redder,
seems the discussion was turning into an argument. His fists clenched at his
sides. "FINE...I will comply!" With one last frustrated glance at
her, he stormed over to the drawer and grabbed a second medical gown out!

Kniam was getting undressed! Amber almost started clapping, then she did
start drooling! All that tan skin, all those muscles. She hadn’t been big on
going to the gym back on Earth, but if this is what she was missing out on all
that time...! His boots were gone, his pants were next...he unfastened them and
pushed them down past sleek hips...hold on she was getting a picture perfect
view of his bare ass! Kniam was commando, and when he bent his knees to work
his boots off, her teeth snapped together. She caught a glimpse of what Kniam
had in his pants and she wanted to sing the hallelujah chorus! Let’s just say
that all his appendages were “proportional”.

Before she could mourn that Kniam had covered his wicked hot body he was
settled on his table. Then Kneus finally spoke up, "Kniam, It would seem
that our genetic manipulation over the thousands of years has had some…side
effects."

"What do you mean your genetic manipulation? Thousands of
years?" She turned her attention between Kniam and Kneus.

Kneus gave me a small smile, “We have been reproducing using genetic,
that is to say scientific, means for thousands of years, and have not had
"sexual contact" in all that time." He paused to do a reading on
Kniam, then continued, "Our history is written as this: The original
fathers were sent to scout for planets to colonize. Our home world was dying,
and we were trying to find a planet that would sustain life. The original
fathers ship sustained damage, and were far off course but managed to find this
planet and land here. They were able to engineer the things needed to survive
and we have been living as they started for thousands of years."

Amber sat in stunned silence for a minute before something nagged at
her..."You said the original "fathers" not members and you
didn't know what I was when I came out of that medical box. You talk about
erections like a body function, not sexual...are there no females...that is
women
on this planet?" She was afraid she knew the answer but she wanted him to
verify it.

"The scout ship was filled with males only, they didn't know what
they would find, or how long they would be gone. It was written that they had
projected to be able to communicate with the home world, and possibly send for
females when a planet was found." Kneus looked uncomfortable..."You
are the first humanoid female we have been exposed to, that is even remotely
like we are. The Antilles are the only species we trade or barter with. There
have been no others like you."

He did that thing where he looked at Kniam, then they talked for a few
minutes which was fine with her. She had a lot to try to take in. The entire
population of this planet was male! They didn't know what an erection caused by
desire was because they had never been face to face with a female! Kniam
thought he had caught a disease she had brought with her through that vortex.

"How is it that we can understand each other now? You speak
English?” Amber was curious.

“I think the medical unit changed your brain waves. We are not speaking
this, “English”, you are speaking our language. Your brain is doing the
translation fast enough that it seems like English to you.”

“Ok. So my brain has been changed along with my body? Is there anything
else I should know?” She asked.