female undergarments before, but when I lift it to my nose and take a deep breath, I groan. Oh, fuck!
I’m hard as a rock again, rubbing the length of my dick as I try to adjust it to fit in these restrictive pants. I feel as if I’ll permanently have the zipper etched on the underside of my cock after this. The scent is both arousing and grounding. I must find her.
Spinning in a circle, I study the surrounding bushes that lie low in the area under the trees. It only takes a moment to spot the displacement in the ground and see the small trail leading off the opposite way I arrived in. As I begin to silently phase to the farthest point I can see, I step fully into the Earth’s dimension and take a deep inhale. Sure enough, I think I could follow her by scent alone.
Within three phases in and out of my dimension following her trail, I’ve caught sight of her, weaving through the trees. Staying back, for the first time in my entire life, I have to use trees and other natural barriers as camouflage while following someone in my dimension.
Because I can hardly believe it, I know I’ll have to test her seeing me again. I think about Payak and his strange fascination with the Earth female Teresa. From the moment he met her on the military base we originally arrived at, he swore she could see him even when he was phased.
In fact, the day before we were summoned to the Ashen’s spacecraft hovering around Earth for testing, he’d developed an elaborate plan to get her into his bedroom to test his mate theory. He was so sure, but he failed at seducing her on the spot. For whatever reason, she went running from him, and it put him in an awful mood for the duration of our time we were quarantined on the Ashen craft and debriefed.
The female I’m following breaks out of the heavily forested area and into a small clearing. Phasing to the biggest tree, I peer around it and watch her walk up to a tiny wooden home, stopping at the door to turn around and scan the forest. Does she see me? Should I step out now and test my theory again?
Before I can make a decision, she hurriedly turns and almost scrambles inside the building. I can hear almost everything she does in there as she slams the door and barricades herself inside a moment later. She must be petrified. If she’s that scared, she must have seen me, right?
Clearly, I’m in a similar situation. I’ve found an Earth female who can see me in my dimension. Could she be mating compatible as Payak assumed? Have I met my mate here on planet Earth?
And if that’s the case, what’s she doing out here in the middle of the forest on restricted land where a volcano could potentially erupt at any time? For me, it’s a no-brainer. I could phase into my dimension in an instant and save myself from any fallout if there was an explosion. She’s just a small, frail Human female.
What could she be thinking?
CHAPTER FIVE
- Zoey
I tighten the string around the hood of my jacket, keeping my head down as I trudge from trap to trap on my rounds. My grandfather taught me how to do this, and some of the traps are still partly his creation. Not the string or rope, most of that became brittle and had to be replaced. But the cages, and in one case, an old can are his.
Despite the weather, I know how important it is to maintain this circuit. There’s a tiny garden my grandmother mostly maintained in the sunniest patch of clearing around the cabin, but it’s taken the last two weeks just to pull out the weeds and get the sprouts up to start the basics. Down the road, it might sustain me, but not yet.
If I’m going to live off the land and have fresh items to supplement the nutrition bars and limited canned goods I was able to bring with me, then I need to be diligent. In addition to the fact that sometimes the traps get tripped without capturing anything and need to be reset, there’s no reason to torture an injured animal, causing it more pain than necessary.
When I woke up this morning, the sky was dark with low-level clouds, and the ground outside was rain-soaked. I could tell immediately