~Jives~
After that night, I pretty much glued myself to my desk for the next week or so. That was the first time in a long time I’d ever even spoken with someone of the female sex, let alone a human. My job is to take care of the intergalactic affairs, and I knew that was what my mind was focused on.
The day after that was a meeting between the president, myself, and one of the heads of the labor department from Klanden and one of the other labor heads from Earth. We all sat down, and the first thing I wanted to discuss was the future plans for earth.
“I have a group of men coming, headed by Vrishna here, to take care of the work,” I said to the president, pointing to my alien comrade. Unlike me, who looked humanoid, he was much different, with blue skin, a couple of tentacles, and piercing green eyes. The president looked slightly worried, especially with the way the other looked.
“I see. Well, can he prove he can follow the instructions we laid out, and your own? I have the proposal for the plan. You want to rebuild the city, and from there, we can work on building better factories and industries of trade, and the people of Earth will send a few girls over to Klanden to help them there,” the president said.
“Correct. He can follow instructions quite well. I’ve already briefed him on what I desire from him. I want him to work on fixing the mess Remi created first, and from there we’ll go into how we can expand the facilities here. The shipment with potential laborers should be here within the next three days, but I’ll be rounding up the men that we already have to get started. Does that sound fine?” I asked.
“Sounds good to me. What about you though, Jives? Are you interested in female companionship?” the president inquired.
I stiffened. Why did people assume that I want a female? I shook my head, staring directly into his eyes.
“No, sir. I have my work to do. I don’t have time to entertain females,” I said.
“Fair enough. I do appreciate that from you, Jives. Unlike your leader, you seem to care a lot more about the future of this place, rather than just a romance with a human,” he said to me.
“Thank you. I want to make sure that all relations go according to plan, and nothing is amiss,” I said.
“Good. I’m glad you want to help,” the president said.
The two of us discussed the trade options. According to him, there were a few promising inventors here on Earth that had already indicated they wanted to go to Klanden. I spoke with him about some of the laborers staying here for a long time as well. Both of us agreed not to force any relationships with any of our people unless they came forward and said they’d like to court someone, which was fine by me. Less work to worry about.
The meeting went smoothly, and after that, I went over to my telefaxer to send the results of this meeting over to Remi. I hadn’t heard much from him, minus the fact that he was happily married, doing what he wanted, and was overall successful.
I mean, I wanted to be happy for him. Despite his very immature nature, both he and Audrey had managed to work on bettering Klanden already. It had only been about a week, but already Audrey was hard at work getting the men ready to come here. She seemed dedicated to her job, something that I did wish Remi appreciated a bit more, but what could I do? I was just his former babysitter, in a sense. Or advisor, whichever name you preferred.
After I finished that, I sat back, realizing that I didn’t have anything to do. I had finished up everything, I was ahead of schedule, and there weren’t any problematic situations I needed to rectify. What did I do now? Do I go to explore the city once more? I began to wonder if maybe, just maybe, I should do that.
I shrugged. It probably was a good thing to see what other humans did. It would help with my understanding of them, and perhaps I could assist those who decided they wanted to take their relationship with someone further. I mean, I was the ambassador here, the one running the show since Audrey and Remi are gone. I guess it wouldn’t hurt.
I walked out to the hovercraft, punching in on the little screen places of interest. One of them that showed up was the Moon. I looked at it, pursing my lips and trying to figure out why the devil people would want to go there.
“It seems like it’s a popular location. I’ll see what’s there,” I said.
I started the engine, immediately feeling the thrusters increase. I slowly drove over to where the parking station was, and when I got out, I noticed that all of the other patrons were in very regal attire, almost like they were about to go out for a night on the town.
“Quite interesting,” I said to myself. I walked to the elevator, stepped on, and soon I was skyrocketed all the way to the top.
Wow. It was utterly amazing. Normally, I didn’t pay mind to this, since I could see sights like this from my ship, but this was astounding. The fact that it took me all the way to the top floor, the ease of it, and the way everyone left, seemed almost surreal. I stepped off, and soon, I saw a gigantic shopping area.
There were people hustling and bustling about, some of them young, a few of them old. There was a restaurant there, but it seemed like everyone wanted to go to the club. I followed them, stepping inside, and soon my ears met the thumping of the base.
This was very different from my home planet. We didn’t have fancy sights like this. Clubs didn’t exist. Most men, when they wanted some time alone to let loose, would go train somewhere. We had obstacle courses, and normally if I wanted to unwind I’d just hit up the small bars that we had laying around the various cities. But this was astounding, and when I got inside, immediately people stared.
I probably looked like a fish out of water. I awkwardly smiled, shaking my hand up a little bit and then walking over to the window. There was a gorgeous view there. I marveled at the way Earth looked down below. We weren’t that far from there, but the giant orb seemed to almost reel me in.
“What the hell are you doing here?” a voice said.
I turned, unsure if I was hearing things. However, right in front of me was that girl from the other day. That woman named Tracey.