A Breed Apart - Chapter 2

Mal and the crew headed back to the ship and waited for Khei to round up her team. It wasn’t long before Khei and four others like her finally came up to the ship. Khei looked over the ship and nodded, “Nice. Not too big, not cramped.” “Well nice of ya to approve.” Mal wasn’t sure if the anthro’s comment was a compliment or not but he wasn’t going to worry about it. It was just a simple trip to the bunker planet where he could be rid of these weirdos.

Simon came down from his quarters and was startled to see the fur covered passengers. He hastily walked up to Mal and tapped him on the shoulder. ‘What is this?” “Just a job. Don’t worry your pretty lil face about it.” Simon fidgeted as the anthros entered the cargo bay. One particular one seemed to give him the heebie jeebies. He was a largish creature, a good foot taller than Khei. His fur was jet black with thin greyish markings and his eyes were a piercing golden color. He said nothing though he unnerved Simon.

Two of the other kittora were tawny in color with brown markings much like Khei’s. They both had green eyes and seemed to admire the ship inside and out. The last one was solid white in color with ice blue eyes. He had no markings and seemed withdrawn. He looked at noone and kept his head hung low. All four Kittora stood at attention when Khei barked commands at them in a language foreign to the crew. She then introduced her team to everyone.

“I won’t bother ya with particulars but you may as well know what our names are in case it’s necessary to communicate with us.” She pointed to the white furred one and smiled. “This is Aethis He’s our quiet one.. He’s not much for talking but he knows damned near anything you could need him to know.. How he knows is beyond any of us..” Aethis nodded and raised a hand in a gesture before slumping again.

Khei moved on to the two Tawny colored ones. “This is Jur’tei and Mar’tis. They are our communications technicians. They’ll both talk yer ear off and tend to