The Brigands of Ruk

Ruby

This is just not my freaking year! Curious? Pull up a chair and let's talk.
First, I get a call from my baby sister and my whole world is turned upside-down. Now we are on the run from people we don't have the funds to outwit. We were safe for a quick minute and then the world and everything we've ever known took a trip into the unbelievable. You think this is the worst of it? Nope! Apparently, the universe was bored and decided to create something far more interesting for its own amusement. It seems like my story isn't over yet, even though that might have been easier for me to accept. Finding ourselves displaced in a time and space where we don't belong, and just as we believe all hope is gone. In stomps, the biggest, snarliest, ugliest thing I've ever seen. He reaches down and picks me up like I'm a precious piece of glass. He is a monster, a beast, a growling monstrosity that looks at me like I am a living, breathing, dream. Once in his arms, I realize I am no longer lost or alone. I've finally found what I was always searching for . . . him.

Slavic

It seems like the gods are not done interfering with my life yet. We intercept a bug ship, anticipating a good fight and full cargo hold, only for me to find HER, my beloved. Laying weak, and practically fading away in my arms, she is a creature I never envisioned, but her very existence is a cruel mockery of my failures. I don't deserve her, but now that I've held her in my arms . . . that is where she will remain.

Contains mature themes.