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furs. His red eyes burned to penetrate her frozen flesh and Bethany sighed with pleasure, she couldn’t help herself. If he was to cook her alive at this very moment she would still sigh from the relief of the frozen temperatures. He was warming her, thawing her frigid limbs through her multi layered clothing.
    She winced when he pulled her mitts from her hands and warmed the numbness from her, as would a heated tongue laving her skin, each finger at a time. The heat traveled into her palm, a lover’s caress, her breath increased when he turned her hands and sensually began again.
    Oh, to be warm again and to stay warm for once after years of freezing everything but my damned emotions.
    Her face, she knew, was filled with sorrow while thinking of their plight, until he scared her with his smiling jagged shark teeth and slightly cocked head of hair reaching to caress her in an eerie way. His way of diffusing her skepticism. Spooky but effective.
    When he finished warming her he took her upper arms in his hands and settled her back against the furs and ran his glance over the fur ball nest they had created. Finn warmed them all. The furs began to steam against the freezing night air. There was no fuel left to start a fire. The only light visible was that of Finn’s and his partner’s eyes. Red laser dots roaming across the furs and walls a litter of kittens would have a field day with.
    “Sleep,” Bethany heard the low, soothing growl from Finn. The word was in her language, it was a pathetic attempt but an attempt.
    How endearing.
    Bethany knew the aliens were aware of their species if they could say a single word in her language. She had been correct; they weren’t here to cause harm. A gentle, large hand settled over her forehead. She, Tasia, Dyani, and Chiyo had hunted all day with nothing to show for their exhaustion. Adan had scoured the area for more fuel, supposedly with Bertha’s help, though Bethany was skeptical she had been of help and nothing was found. A quick flicker of bright light from Finn’s eyes and Bethany’s cheeks heated. She was mesmerized. No one had taken care of her since her parent’s demise. Bethany drifted into sleep. All during the night when Bethany woke she was wonderfully warm. Finn stayed close. The aliens took turns staying awake and keeping the humans alive while outside the storm raged.
    When Bethany woke next she discovered her hand in Finn’s. Her one mitt was off to the side while her other hand had been covered, he was studying her fingers. The tips of his black claws avoided her flesh, but the pads on his fingers were rough as he trailed his thumb up and down each individual finger. Finn eyed her and raised his empty hand to his mouth. Sadly Bethany shook her head. She had no food to give him or anyone. She would have liked to reward his kindness.
    The resting mitten was pushed back over her hand. Finn growled to his partner. Both centered their eyes onto the mound of furs. Finn pushed Bethany all the way under the pile and forcefully motioned she was to stay. The furs warmed until they were almost unbearably hot. Bethany gasped in the new sauna but didn’t move. When she peeked out Finn and the other were gone. A delicious heat coma enveloped her and her eyes drooped until she slumbered. Surrounded in ice she was surrounded in heat.
    Sometime later a wonderful aroma filled the air making Bethany stir. A fire was lit with burnable fuel. Roasting over the fire was a massive hunk of meat. Finn was using his eyes to cook an enormous slab of some animal’s haunch before ripping into the charred flesh with those pointed teeth of his. Blood dripped from his chin and Bethany would have been disgusted if she hadn’t been wishing so hard it was her that was cramming her face with the delicious smelling food.
    A movement to her left and a small gasp had her turning to gaze at Adan. The petite red-haired, green-eyed woman was crawling slowly forward in the most subservient manner