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And you smell like a goat,” Noelle responded in the alien tongue, although, naturally enough the aliens didn’t know what a goat was. “See, Monica! They aren’t nearly as stupid as you said they were.”
    Monica gaped at her. “Are you trying to get me killed! That bitch is twice my size!”
    “ But I have a rock by my foot. When she charges in here to throttle you, I’ll bash her head in.”
    Monica’s eyes widened momentarily with a mixture of horror and outrage. After a moment, though, she turned to look at their guards assessingly. “Let’s not try that.”
    “ But there’s only the two of them and we’re away from the village. We might not get another chance!”
    “ You think this is a chance? We’re tied up! They’ll just wade in and drown us!”
    Noelle frowned. “You think they can swim?”
    “ I don’t think we can when our hands are tied!”
    Noelle released an irritated huff of breath. “Fine! Bathe then. I guess we’ll have to think of something else.”
    “ Shut up and bathe!” the bitchier guard snapped.
    “ I hope this is your drinking water I just pissed in,” Noelle said, smiling at the alien woman.
    Monica gaped at her. “Tell me you didn’t! I’m downstream, damn it!”
    “ Sorry. I had to go. Bad! There was no holding it when she threw me in.”
    Monica stared at her a long moment and then snickered. “I wet myself, too.” She thought it over. “Oh my god! I swallowed a pint of fucking water! I’m going to choke you, Noelle!”
    “ Choke the bitch. It was her fault. Better yet, I told you I’d found a rock. I’ll give it to you and you can bash her head in.”
    The silent guard waded in and Noelle and Monica immediately retreated, or tried. It didn’t take the damn giant long to corner them against the rock wall that lined the opposite side of the channel of water. Fortunately, her intention didn’t seem to be anything violent in nature. Although she did produce the wickedest looking knife Noelle had ever seen, she merely used it to cut their wrist bindings.
    Relieved when she waded out again, Noelle and Monica made a stab at washing. It wasn’t as if they could actually get clean! They had no soap and no wash cloths and they were standing in a natural body of water! True the water didn’t look nasty, but it was out in the open! There was no telling how many things had pissed in it!
    Or died in it.
    Or what was living in it, for that matter.
    Finally, the alien women seemed satisfied they’d bathed long enough and summoned them out of the water. That was when Noelle discovered the ‘silent’ guard had brought a change of clothing for them.
    Not that she didn’t appreciate the change of clothes! Hers were wet and didn’t smell that great even after the dunking. But she couldn’t imagine the clothing they were being ‘offered’ was terribly clean, either—probably riddled with alien germs!
    It was clear that they could voluntarily change, though, or the guards would ‘help’. Resentfully, Noelle shed her waterlogged clothing, took the shift that seemed to be made from animal skin and pulled it on. Not surprisingly, it dragged the ground.
    And that wasn’t even the worst of it! The shift was a simple T design with a seam across the tops of the sleeves and a gap left between for the head. The neckline, very modest on the native women, was too wide for Noelle’s shoulders and kept slipping off first one shoulder and then the other, nearly exposing her boobs.
    She surprised a look on the ‘silent’ guard’s face that unnerved her when she looked up from trying to adjust the garment.
    She wasn’t actually used to seeing such a blatantly lustful look on a man’s face when they examined her. Sexual harassment wasn’t tolerated among the colonists and however much any of the men might admire any of the women, they were never so blatant in their sexual interest. She certainly wasn’t used to another woman looking at her like that!
    She was unequivocally