ALIEN COURTSHIP: Mootoa's Moons 2

By Susan Quilleash

Leah is pregnant. She should not be pregnant. She is too old, why would any woman over 30 have sex with a man? Tieko Fawsen knew that he had an engine that could get a ship to travel faster than light. Shuekra Kilmose was an engineer he knew that no one could travel faster than light. The only hope for the crowded planet was to mine the others i

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Aug 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9781949502534

Susan Quilleash

Susan Quilleash, a retired army sergeant living in Colorado Springs, when not writing spends her time in volunteer work for her church and the local GLBT community. Also retired from 19 years in the public schools as a high School math teacher and substitute. She has lived and worked on four continents. A boy until she grew up to be a woman, she has worked as a cowboy, cook, soldier, carpenter, teacher, politician, and writer.

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Alien Courtship

Mootoa’s Moons 2

Susan Quilleash

Copyright © 2018 by Susan Quilleash.

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: The Lorili Gets a New Mission

Chapter 2: Who

Chapter 3: The Lorili Comes Home

Chapter 4: Where

Chapter 5: The Lorili Arrives

Chapter 6: Why

Chapter 7: Exploration of Society

Chapter 8: How

Chapter 9: Preparation

Chapter 10: What

Chapter 11: Mission

Chapter 12: Why

Chapter 13: Courting

Chapter 14: The Ingala Get a Mission

Chapter 15: Ambassadors

Epilogue

Glossary

Acknowledgements

A lot of people have helped me to become a writer. I dedicated my first book to my Mother, Marguerite Quilleash Nelson, a professional proofreader in the days before computers. She encouraged my reading and my imagination. Jo Palmer, Clare Milne, John Balez, and a number of other teachers got me to write. The Sand Creek Writers Group, The All Souls Writers Group and the Pikes Peak Gay Writers all gave me the proper amount of critiques. Special thanks to Heidi, Logan and Rebecca. Thank you to those editors I have worked with at iUniverse and TopLinks. I am sorry I don’t remember your names. I have to keep a separate file of character names on my stories or I get them confused. I lost a story competition because I had three different names for my protagonist, and the story was less than two thousand w ords.

Chapter 1

The Lorili Gets a New Mission

Some four hundred years ago when Earth discovered a way to travel faster than the speed of light. They were approached by the Mxtel and a trade and protective society that the Mxtel had founded. Due to some coincidences and an attempt at fairness one of the empty planets of the Earth’s solar system was ideal for a headquarters of this trade group, and as Earth’s languages were in the range that could be spoken and heard by all the members of the group English was adopted as the official language of what was now called the Confederated Sentient Peoples or CSP. The CSP have a military/exploratory arm called the federated fleet. The fleet commissions a variety of ships; scouts, packets and patrol. Trade and diplomatic ships are commissioned by the individual members of the CSP.

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Captain, Commander Wilson, the XO of the scout Lorili, called from the bridge, when the captain’s transmission to Earth was completed. Commander Yosserin came aboard fifteen minutes ago. He has some confidential mail. He notified his boss about the packet commander’s arrival.

Come in Commander, sorry about the wait, you know what it’s like to make a call to Earth.

Yes, sir. I understand congratulations are in order. Where’s the lucky bride. He looked at the sexy woman standing next to him.

You’ve met Leah. You were at her promotion ceremony.

He has never seen me in mooth. She took the commander’s hand and said. Pleased to meet you again Commander, now you have a better understanding of why we on Mootoa keep thinking you’re female.

Oh! Wow! You’re Commander Marguerida?

Yes though that name might not be correct any more, we have to do some research and legal things.

Commander Yosserin got back to business. These are not exactly confidential. Counselor Haxitda delivered them personally and had them out in the open. She said that she wanted to ensure that you got them personally. I told her that the best way for that would be to put them in a confidential pouch. She said it’s not secret. I told her it doesn’t matter. She read them to me before she sealed them in the pouches.

Since they are in a pouch, I have to sign for it anyway. Then you can tell me what it says. Jake got his pen out.

You’re ordered back to Mootoa. You’re going to come back to Earth in five months and she will see you in five days to know your answers.

Five days? Jake started to open the pouch

Well the papers say seven but they were written two days ago.

Jake scanned the forms. Well Leah. Looks like you’re going home.

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Scott Yosserin had been on the