"I see..." He was just bending down to me when suddenly the light went out and the ground shook violently until the ship came to a complete stop and we were thrown against the glass.

 "What is it now??" The big man helped me to my feet before looking around and hearing how some of his people were already standing at the door and shouting something I didn't understand.

"It's all right, come in." he said in his language, but that I could have guessed, because the people in front of the door started marching in and gathering around us.

One of them explained the situation to him, I noticed how he and a few of my people couldn't help but watch me closely, staring at my naked torso. But Quanoz let them stare, I guess so that they could take a glimpse of his newest possession and envy him even more.

"What's happening?"

I wanted to know curiously and pushed my hair out of my face. The men's looks made me blush and I hugged my fiancé tightly, if you could call it that. I guess so. Back to the text. I hugged Quanoz tightly to find some security and shield myself a bit from the other men.

"They say our power supply seems to be damaged and it may take a day or two to fix it. Guess... we're staying a bit near your planet after all." He had to smile when I pressed myself against him like that, but left it uncommented.

"I understand, why is it broken all of a sudden?"

"We don't know that yet. But I hope we'll find out soon." He frowned and started analyzing my face. "You're all red. Is it because of the looks they gave you?" It obviously amused him how embarrassed I had become when the others entered.

"Yeah...it's still a bit unusual to be so, uh, revealing...I mean in front of others."

I grumbled into my nonexistent beard.

"Well...."

I tried to change the subject somehow.

"What do you think of dinner?" He smiled gently and picked me up again like before. Now we were at the same height again and I noticed that the king scanned my body up and down with his eyes. My body fascinated him apparently no less than that of my crew.

"Food always sounds good."

I explained happily, shaking my legs back and forth.

"What is there to eat? Anything I might know, or rather less?"

"Rather less, but you should like it." 

Grinning proudly, he walked with me out of the room through the corridors where many people greeted us again to a large hall with many low tables and many soft fur carpets where the people sat.

"All right. I'm open to new things."

After a while, I relaxed under the gaze and took a closer look of the great room. The animal skins looked fluffy, I would love to snuggle up in there.

We walked to the table in the middle of the room and there he carefully set me down and sat next to me. The ship's top officers were with us at the round table according to Quanoz.

 Beautiful women who only had a short scarf tied around their hips served us large platters with fruits, vegetables, a kind of dough in a large bowl and an unknown liquid in small bowls that were foreign to me.

With an attentive look I gazed around in this dining room and tried to memorize every detail. I gave the beautiful women admiring looks and stroked back a strand of hair from my face. I stared at the food in fascination. One fruit reminded me a bit of a dragon fruit, but it will not be that for sure. Somehow I was really curious to taste this fruit and the rest of the meal. I glanced at Quanoz for a moment.

"We eat with our hands here. Today I'm going to show you how to eat certain fruits, so you're more or less fed. It's a sign of intimacy and respect in our culture, so it's not uncommon to do it." My soon to be husband started with the first fruit, which he broke open by hand with ease, that  had a lot of large  beans in the pit. "These beans are very nutritious and taste similar to your planet's cacao pods... only ours are all white without the smaller bean inside. And they're edible raw and much sweeter..."

"Okay. So you eat everything with your hands."

I repeated to myself, watching him in awe. I wasn't very fond of Aliens before and I only agreed to this because of the money, but I soon would fall even m ore in  love with this new culture, the people, and maybe even him.

He broke  the fruit open.

"Oh, we have that feeding on Earth too, but mostly we only feed babies. And when you boil the fruit, what comes out?"

"Boiled and mashed, it's a popular food for young children, but we only eat it raw or dried." he broke off a bean and fed me the first one. I noticed his hair started glowing again. Is he so happy that I try the food of his homeland? 

I smiled softly and let him feed me the white beans. They taste very sweet and I really liked the taste.

"They taste really incredibly good."

I looked happily at Quanoz and carefully took some of his Unaki in my hand. That was still the thing which fascinated me most about him.

"Why are your Unaki glowing now?"

"I... just think you're  very beautiful while you eat..." was all he said while he got goosebumps as I touched on of his strands of hair. "Would you like to try something else?" Quanoz ate a few beans himself afterwards and chatted a bit with the people around us.

I smiled embarrassed and fed him a bean as well.

Try something else... "I'd really like to try that fruit that looks like a dragon fruit. That pinkish red fruit over there."

I said and pointed to them while continuing to feed him the beans.

"Well... but just to let you know that one very sour and not what you think." He called someone to slice the fruit with a knife and put half of it on each of our plate. Inside was a slimey green mass with tiny black seeds. "You slurp the juice from the peel like a bowl..." he adds before demonstrating it. like before.

Curiously I followed Quanoz's example and also slurped the green mass out of the bowl and immediately shook my head because it was indeed very sour.

Quanoz on the other hand just laughed at the look on her face and gulped the mass down in one go. "You get used to it." With a heartwarming smile, he put a cup of water in front of me, which I quickly accepted.

I quickly took a sip of the clear water and then pouted playfully.

"That's not funny Quanoz."

I grumbled, but slowly a smile formed on my lips as well.

"Okay what shall we eat now?"

I wanted to know curiously and tilted my head to the side.

"Just take things that appeal to you and watch the others around you eat it." he said and pointed around. One of the men got up and went to talk to the big alien man. It seemed like he wanted to challenge Quanoz to something in a friendly way.

Without hesitation, I grabbed some of whatever I could get my hands on and then watched the people around me eat them. With a few initial difficulties, I copied the eating habits of the others. With stuffed cheeks, I eyed Quanoz's conversation.

Somehow a strange feeling of not being able to understand anything.

After some talking of the two men he stood up and nodded. "We have a tradition... an eating contest. It' usually very popular among women to watch, you'll see why. You cannot use hands. He wants to challenge me..." He tried his best to describe this tradition of his before walking with him to another table. The others interrupted their meal and all sat around the two. Then two oval fruit were placed in front of Quanoz and his subordinate and lastly had their hands bandaged behind their backs.

I swallowed the rest of the food that was gathering in my cheeks and followed the others to the table and sat down as well. I was excited to see what would happen next and when the eating contest began, my eyes widened and I felt my face getting very warm.

They tried to eat the fruit purely with their mouth. Quanoz closed his eyes to concentrate and used his long black snake like tongue to loosen the seeds in the middle and spit them onto a nearby plate before sucking and biting to eat a piece at a time. He was a bit faster than his opponent but apparently he didn't notice.

In between, He opened his eyes here and there for a few seconds, just to look directly into my eyes and of course he would have noticed that I actually got embarrassed by that, so he just grinned and got even more dexterous and faster. When the alien King had already eaten the first half, more and more of his face disappeared into the fruit so that his nose also got a wet.

I had no idea what to do, so I watched Quanoz mesmerized. I bit my lower lip nervously, fearing my face had turned bright red.

I was damn warm and when, for a moment, Quanoz's gaze settled on me, I felt him embarrass me even more. I gulped hard and nervously twisted my strand of hair around my finger.

A short time later he had eaten the whole fruit and was cheered by everyone. Most of the women in the room had the same reaction as me, but his attention was drawn to just me . When he was untied, I immediately walked towards him while he wiping his mouth dry.

What a naughty folk his people were, representing such suggestive things with a funny contest. Probably for the men to show off their skills in eating out "fruit" if you know what I mean. The woman, and I, surely couldn't complain about this scenery. Beeing able to watch their King, their god do such a thing really adds to the fantasy of him beeing a total ladies man.

That I already figured out myself.

I slowly raised my eyes and gave Quanoz a shy smile.

"Congratulations on your victory Quanoz."

I congratulated him and stopped playing with my strand of hair.

"Thank you..." he took my in his strong arms and kissed my forehead softly. He had to bend down a bit, but that didn't matter. I stood on my toes to meet Quanoz a little and snuggled close to his warm, muscular chest.

He showed her more vegetables that we were eating and a certain dough made from the fibers of a certain bush as we were sitting again.

He tells me that this is what keeps them full because on his planet they only ate very little meat and non filling fruits.

We finished eating together and my belly was so full, I just hope that my Body accepts that new form of nutrition fast.

"Phew...I'm so fed up...."

I whispered to Quanoz.

"I'm glad... well. Let's all celebrate my new mistress!" He spoke once in their language and once in mine. A few women in scarce cloths came and began to dance to their local music. A juice was served which was intoxicating for the aliens, but to me it was a bit like a hallucinating drug, even tho I just began to see some colored dots around me. Everyone laughed and talked to each other.

Unfortunately as I expected, some of the men wanted to speak to the only one I could understand on this ship, so helplessly drugged as I seemed, I withdrew from the celebrations.

I tiptoed away and looked out the window to see space and earth, my former home. For a brief moment I reconsidered whether it was the right decision and a soft sigh escaped me. With that drink that they gave me, it was a bit hard to concentrate on my inner thoughts, but one thing that was son very present in my mind was the feeling of being save.

Normally a woman on earth would panic like crazy if she got drunk or drugged, surrounded by strangers that didn't even speak their language. Plus I was more or less naked and the all looked at me like I was some sort of trophy.

But to my surprise I felt save in presence with those other wordly creatures. I felt save knowing Quanoz respects me and no one would dare hurting the kings mistress.

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Hi, it's me again.I hope you liked this longer Chapter with is double the length of my normal ones, but I just felt like it today.

Plus i didn't do any POV switches, do you like single POV better or should I do more of Quanoz point of view again?Please share your thoughts with me in the comments, I will answer them all happily~

See ya, your hardworking author Ayden;)