Drabble Cascade #121 - 'Wrest'
FB3X Drabble cascades
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Title: The Cost of Peace (G, SciFi, m/f-m)
Author: charisstoma
Word count: 100
‘He’s not a child anymore,’ was patiently thought.
‘I know that. Let him make his own choices,’ was thought back.
“Okay, I can hear you both. You’d think being joined you could think a bit more quietly.” Aldus looked at his parental unit, his mother and his much smaller absorbed parasitic father; his forced adoption had been a peace exchange of children between his adoptive people and his, the encroaching aliens.
Aldus considered the large female who wanted him. He’d touched minds with her and her male previously and liked them. Nodding finally, he approached her pouch, his new home.