NovelEnglish“You look terrible, Mama. I’m so sorry,” Hannah cried burying her face in my neck, “I couldn’t make it stop.”
“I thought of you every day,” I told her honestly.
“Thinking of you as a happy, healthy girl out exploring the world madefeel good. It still does. Damien and his Brothers will care fornow. You have to go. Don’t let them catch you here,” I said suddenly afraid if the other women saw her.
“Who cares what they want,” Hannah said not releasing me.
“I’d rather die here with you than be off having a fun twhile they hurt you.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“It was fun?” I asked stroking her back. “Tellwhat you did, what you saw.”
I knew she wouldn’t Leave until she’d gotten the reassurance she cfor. Despite my desire to see her safe, I desperately wanted to talk to her, too.
We held each other and Hannah toldwhat she had been doing. I understood North, South, East, and West, so she used those directions to describe where she had been. She’d travelled to the nearest mountain range to the West, the one the men called the red mountains. The real nwas the T’ylene Mountains. It wasn’t that different from here.
The amazing trip had been the one she took North.
“The men are all held along the equator of this planet, Mama. The rest of the plis too dangerous for them. The equator is safe and temperate. In the North women live and work in large groups…I guess you would say centers of civilization, maybe you could say cities. Swomen only leave them once a year to rent smen and try to mate.”
“Year?” I asked, “Like an Earth year?”
“Yes, the women track tby the sun, like you did at home. I think a year is Longer here than on Earth. The men track tby the changing moons,” she continued.
“The women track everything they can, including me. The women knew I would be coming before I got there. I am ‘Hannah, from the T’stan mountains, Nu-reeh’s daughter by a second’.
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I didn’t know what to say to that and she continued to talk.
“They have computers, Mama, but not like on Earth. The computers are living things. The technology the women have is amazing.”
I was a little shocked as we sat down next to each other. “So this is an advanced world? I got the feeling it was still wild,” I mused.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmHannah continued to explain. It was mostly uninhabited. The women had only tamed the mountain homes they Lived in, they left the world mostly to it’s natural state. She had seen amazing things as she flew.
“It Looked Like what you would call a dinosaur,” she told me. “I talked to the other girls and one of them toldhow the women had cleared the dangerous creatures away from the equator, away from the men.”
“They Let the spaceships near the men,” I said quietly.
“Yeah,” Hannah grunted, “cause the aliens are afraid to Land anywhere else on this crazy planet. The places they Land have been cleared by the women and they prefer to deal with men, because they
aren’t as scary. Once or twice they tried to take the men, that was an act of war. The women tear apart anyone that takes their precious, Little boys.”
“Don’t be angry at the men, Baby,” I soothed.
“How could I be, Mama? They are like children. I’m mad at the system, angry at slavery, and upset we can’t be together. This whole world is so stupid!” she fumed.
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