When She Belongs

Things I, Sophiecto, have learned in my short time in Risda: one, aliens are real. Two, the va Sithai brothers think of me as a little sister and are terrified of my getting hurt. Three, when they go on a dangerous mission, they will dump me somewhere safe with a grumpy, part-cyborg junker named Jerrok who wants absolutely nothing to do with me. Jerrok is rude. He's cranky. His parts are falling off, and he hasn't bathed in years. He's the last male in the universe I should be developing feelings for... except he might be the only one who understands what it's like to be broken. Because I know about broken. For six years, I belonged to the Praxians, and I'm still learning how to belong to myself. Maybe, if Jerrok and I can figure out how to be alone together, we can both find the one thing neither of us ever expected: a place where we truly belong.