The forest smelled wrong. The signature chemical stink of Betelgeusians was obscured by the more powerful, unfamiliar scents of alien flowers and plan...s. She would not be able to rely on her nose here. The human seemed wholly unaware, perhaps they didn’t have a sense of smell at all. The sun was beginning to go down as the planet rotated, the days here were short, they would need to find shelter soon. Her light-sensitive eyes pierced the darkness, seeking a cave or a rocky outcrop between the. As he walked into the house, Carmen turned around on my lap, looked me into my eyes, and said, "Oh Ryan, I think it's going well. Peter isn't angry with us being a couple." Only because I set him straight before you came back. He is not a happy man and he would do anything to break us up. So we have to show him we're serious about each other." Oh, my...." Carmen stuttered."Relax honey, I have a plan. For the rest of Peter's visit I will show him, that you are my woman. So I'll start to caress. Silently creeping up behind her I whispered, "Hello, can I help you find anything?" into her ear.She froze instantly, her hands falling to her sides as she waited for my reaction to finding my bedroom being burglarized. Reaching down I grabbed her shirt and pulled her to her feet and turned her to face me. "Hi Paula," I said as I saw who it was, "Did you find everything you were looking for?" Paula was my roommate's girlfriend, she had just transfered in last semester to be near him. She lived. To endure work, most days suffering from massive hangovers and very little sl**p. So we both put in our notice and began making plans for a trip to the Mountain West, into the Rockies where the temperature and the pace of life was certain to plummet as precipitously as the slopes that fell from its impressive peaks. We had been told that the little window of time that we had planned for our visit promised fair weather, but what we hadn’t planned on was the fairer sex. For a span of three weeks,.