Flashback: The Conquering Heroine

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 TITLE: The Conquering Heroine

SYNOPSIS: Oberon takes his 13 yahren old daughter Phoenix on her first hunt.

 

She saw the transport coming from a mile away. Literally since it was flying and the vehicle’s onboard sensors had tripped the proximity alarm the woman had set up.

Aradia looked up from her gardening, trowel in one gloved hand and a bunch of weeds in the other, and smiled. Her husband had taken their only child on a camping trip to do some hunting and it would be the girl’s first hunt. The woman smiled and brushed aside a stray lock of dark auburn hair laced with silver and shielded her eyes against the glare of the sun. She watched as the dot on the horizon grew until she could see the details of the craft and eventually the occupants.

 

One of them was waving.

 

She waved back.

 

Mentally she checked her list of things to do. Yes, a meal had been prepared and was slowly cooing in the food prep area. Yes a pitcher of sweetened citrus juice was chilling nicely in the freezer unit. Yes, fresh towels had been hung in the bathrooms with full knowledge that neither one of her family members would have had much acquaintance with water in the two sectons that they had been gone.

 

“Lords, please let there be fish on the menu as well,” she said aloud.

 

The only creature within hearing range was the family catlet who lay not too far away curled up in one of the patio lounge chairs napping.

 

“You lazy little bag of bones,” the woman scolded. “Can’t you even wake up long enough to welcome your mistress home?”

 

The only indication the woman received was an ear twitch, but other than that the feline didn’t move.

 

The woman sighed and shook her head. Felines! A daggit would have been barking and dancing around all excited at her feet, eager to welcome the family home. The tail would have been wagging the daggit as the old saying went.