Raz the Farmer

By Snekguy

Raz travels to Earth with Stanley to visit the farm where he grew up, and to meet his parents, but how will they react to his giant alien companion?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Snekguy
• Release date: Jun 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463591024

Snekguy

My name is Snekguy and I like to write, primarily science fiction and urban fantasy with erotic elements.By supporting me, you can help me raise money for more art and book covers, and you can help me work towards my goal of writing for a living.

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CHAPTER 1: HOMECOMING

The plains of Oklahoma passed by beneath the shuttle as the pilot took it low over the flat terrain, fields dotted with small farmhouses and silos whizzing past as the only points of interest in the sea of green grass and yellow crops. Raz was sat across from me in the troop bay, her giant alien figure secured to an appropriately sized crash couch with a harness as the engines shook the deck beneath our feet. She was looking out of a nearby porthole, her yellow, feline eyes tracking the passing structures and herds of grazing cattle. The round, furry ears that protruded from the mop of orange hair on her head swiveled and twitched, her similarly colored tail trailing from the back of her seat to rest on the floor like a giant snake covered in peach fuzz. She was eight feet of muscle and claws, a killing machine by human standards, a Borealan in the prime of her life.

I was bringing her to meet my parents as we had been granted a month of leave and I had insisted that she observe the human custom. We had been in a relationship for a couple of years now, and I still hadn't told my parents exactly what she was, just that I had met someone and that we were going steady. The distances involved and our workload meant that visits like this one were few and far between. It wasn't through any shame that I had failed to inform my parents. Raz could be crass at times, but I knew that she would do her best to make a good impression. It was just that my parents were somewhat traditional and I didn't know how they might react to finding out that their only son was dating an alien.

I had dropped out of agricultural college to join the UNN against their wishes, to protect the Earth and her colonies from alien threats, and I wasn't certain that my salt of the earth parents would be able to tell the difference between enemies and allies. The Borealans were a member race of the Coalition, a multi-species alliance that had banded together to fight against common threats. While integrating their vicious warriors into our units had been somewhat of a challenge, in the end, it had been Raz and I who had built that bridge and found common ground between our two cultures. As a result, the two of us had become instructors on a Naval installation known as the Pinwheel. I was an instructor on the firing range, and she trained new Borealan recruits to interact with humans without...eating them.

Borealan culture was extremely hierarchical, more like a pack of wolves than anything humans would consider a society, but their way of looking at the world lent itself well to military life. Together we had trained every Borealan shock trooper who had ever served alongside human troops.

Is it all grassland? Raz asked me, her eyes still fixed on the view beyond the window.

What, the whole planet? She had never been to Earth before, this was her first time setting foot on a planet that wasn't her own, having served her time so far in the UNN on space stations or Naval vessels exclusively. No, this is a state, kind of like a territory on Borealis. There are different environments and geography than just this. We have mountain ranges, lakes and rivers, cities...

I think there's more grass here than in all of Elysia, she mused as she watched the fields fly by us. Her home planet was primarily hot and arid, her people living in relatively small oases created by great lakes ringed with fertile jungles. They formed a natural barrier against the desert beyond and trapped a microclimate that made the interior lush and hospitable.

We can see other places too, I said, we don't have to stay with my parents for more than an afternoon if you don't want to. I just want you to meet them.

It's fine, we can always come back another time and see more of the planet. You already talked me into coming, you don't need to sweeten the deal now. I know that this is important to you.

I smiled at her. Despite the predatory instincts roiling beneath her savage exterior, she was uncommonly understanding for a Borealan, and she always did her utmost to see things from a human perspective. Maybe that was why we had been able to find common ground in the first place, but even then, our earlier encounters had very nearly ended in maiming. In the end, we had found a balance, a kind of equilibrium between us. It was tentative and unstable at times, but that was part of what made being with her so exciting. I hadn't quite tamed her, and she had never been able to induct me into her pack and become my Alpha, leaving the two of us in a state of perpetual low-level conflict that expressed itself as bawdy romance.

Coming up on the coordinates, the pilot called back to us from his seat in the cockpit. "Where would