ALIEN ABDUCTION (Captured by Aliens) by Jaide Fox Page A

relaxed her legs a little, allowing
him to breathe and talk.  “Sorry, sorry.  I’m not used to being this high in
the air!  It’s gettin’ on my nerves somethin’ fierce.”
     
    “Calm
down!  You’ll be safe!  Just trust me,” Fallon grumbled, grasping her calves
and taking great steps across.
     
    Trust
wasn’t something she just handed out willy-nilly.  But she had to trust him
this time.  She didn’t have much choice in the matter.
     
    “Ebony,”
he said in a strangled voice.  “If you do not loosen your thighs around my
throat, I will dunk you in the water.”
     
    “Oh!  Sorry. 
I can’t help it!” she said, forcing herself to relax her legs a little more and
depend upon him to keep her above the water.  She watched from her perch on his
shoulders as he powered through the swift current, taking them across the
rushing river to the other side with little effort. 
     
    His
strength impressed her.  Being back on solid ground impressed her even more.
     
    Ebony
wilted to the ground and sat motionless, watching as the others joined them.  The
girls all collapsed on the ground in relief, as Ebony had done.  The men filled
their canteens and drank until their bellies were full of water, and then
passed the canteens to the women.
     
    “Thanks,”
Ebony said, taking the canteen from Fallon.
     
    “For
what?” he said, watching her with a steady gaze.
     
    “For not
dropping me.  You could’ve just dunked me in the water and stepped back to see
what would happen,” she said before taking another swig of water.  She handed
the canteen back to him.
     
    He
chuckled, and took a long drink of the water, and then crouched at the river’s
edge once more to fill the container back up.  “I suppose you think us
monsters, but we are not.  No more than any man is.”
     
    She gave
him a wry grin.  “That’s not saying much.”
     
    He stood
up, and looked straight at her.  “No, it’s not.  But then, they haven’t done
the things we have.  If you knew the truth, you might feel differently.”
     
    “Just
waiting on you to tell it to me.  One of you.  I’ll dig it out eventually.  Probably
from Damon.  He looks easier to break.”
     
    Damon
laughed, a short bark of a sound.  “She’s got balls.”
     
    Fallon
rubbed his chin.  “Something like that,” he said.
     
    Ebony
looked hard at Fallon.  “You going to tie our hands again?”
     
    His eyes
flicked from Ebony to the other women.  “I think we’ve had enough of the
bindings.  If any of you run away now, you’ll just be lost in the woods.”
     
    “So we’re
still trapped, but you’re giving us the illusion of freedom,” Ebony asked.  She
stood up and filed into line with the women.
     
    “Exactly,”
Damon said.  “Don’t think about running away.  Our legs are much longer than
yours, and I would hate to punish you or any of the others for the attempt.”
     
    The women
from the harem looked wide-eyed and wary, but made no answer.  The men began
moving them down the trail as though herding sheep.  Ebony found her temper
rising as she watched.
     
    “You
know, Fallon,” she said, as she started down the trail, “as much as you men
might like to think of us women as being cowed, meek, and mild, we’re all
survivors.  Circumstances have forced us to become survivors.  We’re a lot
stronger than we appear, even if we are smaller and weaker than all you big men. 
We still have backbones.  We still have a will of our own.”
     
    “Let us
know when you women can carry the men across the river.  Then we will listen to
you talk about having backbones.”
     
    She
turned back glared at him.  “We just haven’t had a chance to show our strength because
you men insist on imposing your rules onto us .”
     
    He didn’t
bother to look at her.  He acted as if he wasn’t even listening.  “Men’s
arrogance never ceases to amaze me,” she said, turning and stomping back along
the trail.  “Men