barbex

(yes, those are cat-sheep, you’ll have to read the fic to get to know them XD)

The Shepherd's Laughter
 

Author reveals happened for the Original5k Exchange and I can finally talk about this fic. I loved writing it for nunu52chu, the fic went through so many changes and adaptions and it felt like real writing. You know? Like a real writer, writing a real short story for publishing. Like this is real.

I very much fell in love with these characters, the alien who perceives the world via sounds and the happy human who looks at him and goes “friend-shaped? friend-shaped!” I adore them both and also the ship AI. At some point it developed into an alien/human/AI threesome but that had to get cut. Maybe some other time...

Summary:

When your ship is smart, it might decide one day that you need a
friend. Levy's ship is smart and makes him talk to a human shepherd.
This should be a disaster but instead, Levy falls in love.

Levy’s tail snaps to his leg in annoyance. “What should we talk about? What if that herder doesn’t even like me?”
“You’ll have to find out by speaking to him.”
“Humans are afraid of villeks.”
“Maybe this one isn’t.”

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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Original Work
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: 11,577
Relationships: Original Male Character/Original Male Character, Jaded Alien Soldier Stationed To Protect Farming World/Cheerful Human Space Sheep Herder
Characters: Original Male Character(s), Original Alien Character(s)
Additional Tags: Alien/Human Relationships, Alien Romance, Touch-Starved, Alien Creatures, saving all the cats, loving monster fucking, Alien Biology, Tails, Alien Sex