Day of Joy
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Cymbals clashed as drums made of old bowls, binds and a Saurid's belly sounded. Emse dodged past the musicians.
A Day of Joy on the Final Oblivion. Not a bad thing though Esme preferred the days where it was food everywhere over music.
Still, good to have a day off work on this alien space station so far from Earth.
Then Esme's girlfriend gave her a problem to solve and Esme's day improved.
Any day when she got to ask questions, solve problems and make her girlfriend happy was a good day.
As long as she could find a solution to the problem...
Meyari McFarland
Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from SF and Fantasy adventures to Romances but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Her series range from Space Opera Romance in the Drath series to Epic Fantasy in the Mages of Tindiere world. Other series include Matriarchies of Muirin, the Clockwork Rift Steampunk mysteries, and the Tales of Unification urban fantasy stories, plus many more. You can find all of her work on MDR Publishing's website at www.MDR-Publishing.com.
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Day of Joy - Meyari McFarland
Day of Joy
By Meyari McFarland
Other SF Romance Novels by Meyari McFarland:
A Clash of Lines
Joining of Lines
Consort of the Crystal Palace
Fragments of a Chain
Stranded With You
Reunited Hearts
A Simple Life
You can find these and many other books at www.MDR_Publishing.com.
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Dedication:
This story is dedicated to Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
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Day of Joy
Excerpt: Clash of Lines
Afterword
Day of Joy
Cymbals clashed as drums made of old bowls, bins and a Saurid's belly sounded. The beat varied between frenetic and so slow that it temped Eser to curl up and fall asleep. The music bounced off the floor and ceiling, off the walls of the habitats closes to the social area. Eser still wasn't sure why the Final Oblivion, stupid name for a space station, was designed like this.
Big open meeting areas but overstuffed with plants and fountains except in very select places. Lots of shiny silver and chrome support struts around the edges of the Void at the center of the station but no goddamned railings to keep people from falling off. Sure, sure, the antigravity system would keep you from going splat. It turned gravity into pretzels along the struts and edges of the thousand and one platforms.
Still creepy as hell having all that open space and nothing at all to keep you from falling right into it.
Eser turned away from the Void, determined, as always, to ignore it. Better off just pretending it wasn't there. Besides, there were way better things to focus on than the stupid design of the Final Oblivion.
Like the Day of Joy going on around her. There were flute-like things off in the t'Saoir's tentacles that they used to sing along with the Nikiphoros hanging from the ceiling. While the Nikiphoros looked like anthropomorphic bats, the t'Saoir were stout little purple penguins with eyestalks and tentacles.
Who were playing music with singing bats the size of a human. Damn but aliens were weird. A good weird, granted, but still weird.
Eser wandered slowly past them, amused at the way the t'Saoir eyestalks pivoted to watch her go. The entire galaxy was convinced that humans were eating machines. Valid, really. There was damn little food out there that humans couldn't eat if they put enough effort into it. But the whole 'will eat anything' had somehow gotten translated into 'will eat people, too' and Eser found that amusing as all hell sometimes.
Like I'd want to eat purple penguin meat,
Eser murmured low enough that no one other than the Nikiphoros should be able to hear it. Rather have a damned taco.
One habitat away from the human's habitat, just about a quarter mile, the platform narrowed down thirty yards from a football field's width to something more like a too-wide hallway with six story high ceilings. Had to be high to let the Saurids through, especially the long-necked varieties. Eser kind of like them. They didn't mind if you clambered up their tails or legs and rode on their backs. Seemed not to even notice it until you climbed their necks, and then you'd be expected to have a