Overview

He’d scour out his entire being if he knew any prayers with the power to do so.

More than twenty years before the events of The Alien Emissary and a few short years after the brutal Klah’Eel invasion of Southern Tava, refugees of all kinds work to build new lives for themselves on the tropical planet of Carta.

Ha’ral came to Carta fleeing the horrors of the war – both the horrors that he witnessed and the horrors that he inflicted. He became a guard and dedicated himself to becoming a new man. A patient man. A kind man. A man who would never raise a hand in anger. Maybe even a man who might deserve the playful smiles and casually intimate touches of the handsome human pickpocket who hangs around his patrols. But Zyk came to Carta fleeing horrors of his own and finding out who Ha’ral used to be might be more than Zyk can bear.

A very steamy 20k word short story set in the Interspecies Alliances world featuring a man yearning to be better, a man yearning to heal, and a happily ever after.