Star Kitten (59 page)

“
God… please
give me back my husband. Please let… um… please let him see his
daughter again.” Amazingly, with all her talents and skills at
sensing and feeling and communicating with other intelligent
creatures, this was basically all she could think of to say. But it
was plenty. Star Baby came running up to her and embraced her legs,
saying “Da-da find?” Da-da find?” Before Felina could answer, the
little girl looked over to see her nearly unrecognizable
dust-covered father lying on the tunnel floor being administered
oxygen from a spare breather. A cloth soaked with water was being
applied to his dried out and cracked lips. Her father’s beautiful
brown body was now grayish white from tunneling through the
repeated cave-ins they’d had to crash through; and from all the
tremors which tumbled dirt and debris all over his tunnel vehicle.
Star Baby dropped to her knees and knelt right beside him, as
Spleefs worked on slowly reviving him. Suddenly he coughed! Felina
let out a gasp of excitement. But Star Baby was merely tickled with
delight. “Da-da here! Da-da here! Da-da… okay?”

Slowly the tough old former African warlord and saviour of the
planet began to gain consciousness. His thoughts went from dreaming
of death as his body dwindled from the thin oxygen… to suddenly
realizing that the lamps flashing in his face from workers all
around him meant that he’d been—
somehow
—rescued. It felt in his mind almost like he was in a dream
where he was hearing his lovely daughter’s voice. But the physical
sensations he felt: thirst, pain, and the burning in his lungs
could only mean one thing. He was actually alive, and this was
really his daughter Star Baby now patting his chest gently and
caressing his cheek.

Solomon
coughed one more time, and hacked up a dusty phlegm ball before
lying back down on a rolled up shirt that had been created to make
a pillow for him. His eyes slowly adjusted to the light around him,
and suddenly there, with his beautiful wife’s silhouette looming in
the background, he saw his lovely daughter. He smiled feebly, and
gazed upon her adorable smiling face. She’d never doubted they’d
find him of course. Nope, never for a moment. And now she was here
with him. He was going to be okay. He’d live—live to watch her grow
up someday. Solomon’s eyes danced with delight. He could hear
Felina gasping and sobbing with joy. She knelt down on the other
side of him and the family embraced once again; just like they’d
done so many times before. With a raspy voice, Solomon uttered
feebly, “You found me, Star Baby. Good girl.” He coughed again,
this time a little more crackly like he was finally getting
moisture into his body. “Daddy is so proud of you,” he added, still
coughing and choking.

Then, when he recovered himself a bit, he forced out the
words, “Perhaps we should start calling you…
Scout
.”

Scheduled for
release Thanksgiving 2015

Two girls, born within a mere month of each other, grow up in
sixteenth century Russia experiencing vastly different
childhoods.
Tatyana, a petite brunette with a dazzling smile and
effervescent personality, grows up in the southern Russian city of
Belgorod. Ludmilla, a big boned and freakishly strong peasant girl
from the countryside, grows up working on a farm with her father
and five older brothers. Ludmilla's mother, sadly, has died when
Ludmilla was only three, leaving her to develop with no real female
role model; and having to struggle through the hard daily drudgery
of Russian farm life. Though meticulous and intelligent, she not
only dresses like a young man but most certainly looks like one as
well by age seventeen. Tatyana by way of comparison, has lost her
own mother to cancer when she was age ten, leaving the girl to have
to work with her Father running the family business night and day.
Fate would eventually draw the two together though as the
boyish-looking Ludmilla visits the town one day and sees Tatyana
for the first time. Ludmilla finds the phenomenally beautiful girl
to be all but irresistible; and though not really sure as to why
she'd be so terribly attracted to another girl; the feelings she
experiences are quite too real to try and suppress. Tatyana for her
part finds the gender-bending Ludmilla to be quite intriguing as
well; if not also rather appealing! A relationship blossoms between
the two as they fulfill for each other many of the longings they'd
both had growing up. Neither had ever had a true childhood friend,
for one thing. And as the relationship progresses they also find in
each other the passionate amazing lover that both women could have
only ever dreamed of. However fate serves to come between them yet
again, when an army of 100,000 barbaric Tatars invades Russia bent
on destroying Moscow itself. They are captured and enslaved …
separated at the infamous slave market of Caffa. Ludmilla is
classified and branded as a prime field hand and barely evades
being detected as an actual female; but Tatyana? Tatyana endures a
quite different fate when she is purchased by an evil slave trader
who is quite famous within the Ottoman Empire for training
beautiful young women for the harems of the Great
Sultan.