A Universe not so Black and White

Story by Shiranui on SoFurry

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#1 of A Universe not so Black and White

This is a story of love, loss, pain, battle, and death set in a futuristic landscape populated by many various Furs.


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What follows is the setting, and while you may skip it be warned this is a long story and the setting will be important for your understanding, that said I will try to limit boring exposition as much as possible.

This story takes place on Vitabestia-6, the sixth fringe planet to be colonized by the Protectorate citizens. It was as varied in its inhabitants as the stars were plentiful. Over the last few millennia, the Protectorate was formed and reached towards the stars to find habitable planets in an effort to save its populace from resource starvation. Since, many planets have been colonized, many new races/species have joined, and even more advancements made. Vitabestia-6 was a planet far from the sphere of influence of the Protectorate and was in constant turmoil for lack of leadership though resources were plentiful. The planet was ruled by Chancellor Twi Wade but led primarily by the flourishing underworld and the industrial powers which the planet relied upon. Vitabestia-6 was a small planet but close to its neutron star, providing a consistently warm climate for its sole continent that banded the planet's center, leaving the poles covered in fresh water. Of all the cities on the planet, Med City was the most calm, the furthest from the tumult caused by Twi Wade's lack of leadership, and where this story begins. Projectile weapons have become nearly obsolete with the advent of the Anti-Phase Oscillating Grav-generator (APOG) first developed to safely travel through space, can now be worn by the Protectorate's citizens. It effectively counters and absorbs high-impact force/energy, converting it into energy which can stored and used to power the device. Bladed weapons have become the new norm and plasma weapons for those who can afford them, as a sword cannot reach the speeds required to activate the APOG and plasma bladed weapons create distortions in the field in addition to this, though a bolt of pure plasma would be subject to the field.

Let the story begin

Annie had been born weak, which is a tremendous understatement, it was a surprise that she had survived the birth at all. Illness robbed the young girl of most of her childhood, not that there was much to rob. By the time she was 12 she was able to interact with the world normally and by 16 she could pass for normal immunologically speaking. Though her father would never allow her too much freedom, for he had plans of his own for her future.

Annie's mother, an indescribable beauty, was a half-black, half-white fox captured by her "husband" for her beauty and her voice. Sadly, she was not as "fortunate" as Annie, and succumbed to the difficulties of childbirth. Her name was Naomi Tenshi.

Her father, an imposing black panther, was as far from saintly or even father material as possible. Annie knew him only as "father" and was given her mother's last name He was a merchant of war and slaughter and had long since lost any capability for compassion. In his business, a fur was a temporary item to be used or cleared from his path and he had become powerful. His ambition only grew with time and he would destroy anyone who so much as inconvenienced him. And on Vitabestia-6 there were few who could stop him.

Annie was raised under very strict rules and always kept busy with studies, sports, or arts simply so that she would not bother her father. She had rarely seen the man herself and was cared for by housemaids. She was never able to get close to even most of the servants however, for they were never around for long, always disappearing after displeasing her father or outliving their usefulness. She had but one true friend, Alice, a cute brown rabbit from the house next door.

Alice had just turned 17 and was now nervously trailing behind one of her father's henchmen. She had only been on this side of the large mansion once before and she shuddered as she recalled the memory of one of the servants who had been teaching her, was cut down before her, his reptilian blood painting the floor, pooling slowly towards the, at the time, very young girl. Annie shook her head to rid it of the nightmare as they approached the door to her fathers' study. The zebra henchman opened the large white door for her, looking wholly unsuited for the task in his unbuttoned dress shirt adorned with gold chains and smelling strongly of the cigar he still held in his mouth. "Thank you" she said meekly as she entered, glancing around the room to find her father dressed in an all-white suit bulging with his muscled mass and contrasting deeply with his own black fur. He was looking out the large window behind his desk as she entered.

"Annie" He uttered, his voice booming but still not facing her. "Do you know why I called you here?"

"No sir" she quietly responded. Looking down past her generous bosom at her own black fur. She hated how her paws faded to white, wished she were just one or the other so her body would match more than just black or white more easily. Even now she despaired at the red dress she wore, clutching towards the base of the skirt in nervousness and frustration.

"I am sending you to be wed to Kiev Mar in two months, he will be the successor to my empire and will be running operations in Twine City to the West" He stated plainly as if he were telling her to clean her room.

Annie's heart sank, she had no desire to marry a stranger and less so to anyone associated with her father. "But father..."

"What?!" the panther growled. Glaring.

"I don't want to be married" She nearly whispered. She had no idea where this courage was coming from. Annie was painfully aware of the consequences of disobeying her father.

This case was no different. The man quickly was standing over her much smaller form. As she looked up at her father he lashed out, striking his open palm against her face, the force of the blow sending her to the floor and eliciting a yelp from the young feline.

"You will do what I say, when I say it!" he shouted.

Annie could feel his breath on her ears, smell the liquor on his breath as he crouched lower "You have been nothing but an expense no matter how little I try to waste on you, and after all I have given you the LEAST you can do is be useful." He stood, returning to his full height.

"Just like your mother thinking you matter, that you have a choice. Heh. Pathetic." He turned and began to walk towards his desk ignoring her sobbing. "Pack your things, or don't, you're Kiev's burden now."

He turned to one of the maids. "Take her to her room or outside, but nowhere else. Leave." He had no fear of his progeny running away for even if he thought she had the courage to do so, or the means to survive on her own, he had implanted a tracking system in the girl to maintain his hold on his 'investment'.

The servant rushed to the young lady, handing her a napkin to wipe her tears as he helped her to her feet and led her to the door. As the pair left Annie could hear her father say to one of his associates, "I don't care what the 'rules' are, he is in the way. I never agreed to any rules and I don't care about collateral, it can't be traced to me anyhow, get it done." It meant nothing to her but little did she know that it would change everything.

Annie requested to be left in the garden, her sole place of solace in her troubled home. And one of the only places she was allowed.

Her ears perked up as she heard rustling and footsteps drawing nearer from along one of the many paths through the yard.

"Hey Ann, I thought I saw a storm-cloud over this section of the garden" Quipped a familiar voice.

"Hi Alice" Annie droned out, not in the mood for playful banter.

"Oh..." Alice paused "Bad day? Sorry. Mind if I join you?" She asked. The bunny had meant no harm and it was simply in her nature to be bubbly, Fitting for the bright yellow summer dress she wore, complete with matching shoes and bow. Her curled hazelnut brown hair short and bouncy, much like herself. Annie had always envied her nature and confidence.

Annie simply moved a little to make room for the young rabbit in response to her question. The bench was more than long and wide enough to fit 10 other girls but Alice understood.

"What's wrong girl? You're too pretty to be this down" Alice stated and she sat close wrapping an arm around her downtrodden friend.

Annie was silent for a time not wanting to share her problems with her relatively unburdened companion. "My father is marrying me off to a stranger" she finally said, tears now freely running down her cheeks as she lamented her situation. "I'm afraid." she sniffed "What if he's like my father? What if I never see you again?" She said now looking into Alice's attentive brown eyes.

Suddenly Alice's lips were pressed against her own in the deepest kiss she had ever received, the only kiss Annie Had ever received. Annie was surprised but did not resist as she was slowly pushed down onto the bench, to the contrary, she responded in kind to her gentle assailant. She was yet again surprised when Alice's tongue entered her mouth, the warm appendage coming to meet and play with her own. Annie did not know if she should be enjoying this as much as she did but couldn't help being lost in the sea of sensations: The barrier between them and the world created by the curled brown locks of the playful hare, the sweetness of the young woman's saliva, the feeling of Alice's hands running through her stark white hair, the warmth and softness of the lapin's B cup breasts pressed into her larger bust. As Alice finally pulled away Annie's fluffy white tipped foxlike tail curled up between their legs, as if to push the bunny's rump so the kiss could continue, a thin strand of saliva trailing between them.

"You have the most beautiful blue eyes" Alice said, almost whispering

"Alice, I..." Annie was cut off as she was straddled by the chocolate bunny and watched as the girl before her pulled the little yellow dress up over her head to reveal she had not been wearing anything underneath. Again, stunned into submission by the rabbit's boldness, she did not object as she was pulled to her feet and her own dress pulled up overhead. Only for the assault to resume once more with another impassioned kiss.

"Wait." Annie finally was able to gasp out from underneath her soft, warm companion. "My father... I can't... We can't have sex." She said meekly, looking away and blushing furiously under her obsidian fur. "I don't want anything to happen to you." The foxy fur having only been told once that should anything become of her chastity, she would be useless to him and those responsible would incur her father's wrath, from the fearsome man himself.

"Happen to me?" Alice questioned, her ears flopping a little as she tilted her head. Despite their long friendship Alice was not privy to the goings on in their household, for obvious reasons. "If you're scared it'll hurt, don't worry, us girls don't have to tear into each other like a man would. Besides no one ever comes out here, least of all your father. And I'll gladly risk it all to have a piece of my cute little Annie" Alice giggled planting another firm kiss on Annie's lips. "Now quit stalling, no more talking."

Annie nodded closing her eyes as she was enveloped by another sensual kiss forcing their two bodies together. Suddenly Alice broke the kiss, frustrating the Fox-mix but before anything could be done or said the bunny had relocated and...

*Gasp* "Aaahhnn" Annie proclaimed as her companion was gently suckling on her exposed breasts as if milk were the objective. The rabbit's small soft fingers massaging the delectable orbs as she worked, kissing small circles around her inverted nipples and sucking on them until they rose from their protective softness at full attention. Annie could only cry out, squirm and arch her back at the ministrations. Having never felt anything like this, small orgasms wracked her frame.

"There!" Alice proclaimed, exposing those cute nipples she so sought. Slowly kissing a trail down between the mounds of flesh, rubbing her own erect nipples along the white fur of her friend's stomach with a new objective in mind.

"Mmmmm" Sighed Annie, assuming the event was over and placing her hands in the brown locks she could barely see past her own breasts, hoping for another make-out session before...

"WhaaaAAaahn!" Alice had reached the source of her friends' arousal, concealed only by a thin piece of pink fabric which was not nearly enough to stop a rabbit's lust as she licked deeply and nibbled gently, eliciting the proclamation that was music to her large ears.

"Alice! Wait! You CAAAaaahh!" Annie feebly tried to resist her underwear being removed before the assault on her wanting sex continued. Her hands moved instinctively behind Alice's head, forcing the bunny deeper into the gushing folds, at which Alice smiled, continuing her work.

Annie could not help but enjoy the sweet nectar spilling forth but was becoming all the more heated herself at the lustful sounds of her partner. Alice stood up, licking her muzzle as she did so, returning to her lover and entering another passionate kiss with the inexperienced girl.

"Do me too?" Alice gently requested. Annie was not sure how to 'do her too' but how could she ever repay such pleasure without even trying. Annie simply nodded her consent, to which the truffle colored rabbit smiled and gave a quick kiss before turning and throwing her leg to the other side of Annie, now on all fours on the bench. Alice slowly lowering herself to the panther-fox's drenched labia, admiring the fullness of her lover's lower lips and the glistening pink surrounded by white fur that ran up Annie's stomach.

*Gasp* Alice exclaimed, it was her turn to be surprised as a long warm and slightly rough tongue traversed the length of her sex, starting at her already exposed clit.

Both ladies became enveloped in pleasing the other and desperately trying to hold on until the other was sated. As anyone might have guessed, Annie came first, reaching her first true orgasm; and much to the surprise of her partner, releasing a torrent of her juices, spraying her passionate release into her partners mouth and face. Annie would have sworn she died if asked at that moment as she convulsed uncontrollably, tightly gripping Alice's toned rump, careful not to scratch supple flesh with her claws. Alice had no time to worry about how wet she had become however as Annie screamed with her tongue pressed firmly against Alice's clit, the reverberations making her the perfect vibrator and nearly bringing Alice over the edge. But Annie was not finished with her, and as soon as she had recovered from her own orgasm drove her tongue soo deeply into the rabbit, wriggling like mad and finally sending Alice off the cliff of her own climax. Alice had experienced an orgasm before but being drenched in the soothing scent of her new mates' sex and being doted upon for easily an hour made for an all new experience and an earth-shattering orgasm as it turned out. She desperately tried to muffle her pleasured cries by burying her face in her partner, unintentionally returning Alice's earlier gesture, rubbing and vibrating sounds pressed against Annie's now oversensitive vagina. This sent Annie into yet another squirting, back-arching orgasm.

Neither Fur could speak for several minutes after this, least of all Annie who was not sure she still remained on the mortal plane. Once doing so felt possible Alice turned to face her lover and laid atop her fleshy pillows, dampening them with Annie's own juices.

"I'm sorry Alice! I didn't mean to... On you, I..." Annie said, eyes wide at what she thought she had done but was interrupted by an astoundingly passionate kiss, groping included.

"This isn't pee Annie. Though a warning would have been nice" The bunny giggled "I have wanted to get in your pants for soo long. If I had known all I had to do was take you, I would have done so long ago. You are perfectly submissive." Alice laughed

"Shut up" Annie retorted pushing her lips against the rabbit's own, surprising Alice, and effectively shutting her up. During the kiss, Annie sat up with Alice straddling her lap, her hands following the gentle curves of the petite rabbit all the way up to Alice's full B cup breasts. Annie played with the rabbit's nipples, bringing them back to attention and eliciting some "murring" from the bunny.

"More?!" Alice questioned laughing and breaking their kiss. "You insatiable kitty!"

"I've never felt like that before. Don't ever leave." Annie purred softly as she yanked Alice into a warm embrace

"..."

"...I'm moving to the capital with my dad tomorrow. He didn't really say why, but it's for his work and everything is rushed so it must be important. We're taking the FTL train but we're leaving early since it'll take time to get settled in." Alice stated softly

Annie stood up, stepping back from the rabbit with her hands over her muzzle as tears welled "You're leaving?" she asked heartbroken as the one bright light in her life seemed to be fading.

"I'm sorry Annie, I thought you would reject me and I would just have the satisfaction of knowing it wouldn't work. I never imagined we would have an experience like this and I didn't mean to hurt you." Alice moved to her dress and pulled something from a pocket in the chest portion. "Here, I know it doesn't solve everything and I really am sorry it has to be this way. You'll never be alone though, and as soon as I can I'll come rescue you from whatever evil prince has you" Alice smiled tentatively, handing Annie what appeared to be a necklace at first glance but was actually an interstellar communicator and addressing device, a nice one, fitted with a sapphire on its face to match Annie's own piercing gaze.

Not wanting to waste this fleeting time they have on squabbles, Annie grabbed Alice's hand along with the device and pulled the slightly smaller rabbit into a tight hug "I just... I don't know how I'll survive this place without you." Annie sobbed "But ill be strong and I'll always love you Alice."

"I love you too Annie" Alice responded nuzzling into Annie's warm ample chest

Before long the sun had set so the two lovers got dressed and were holding each other more tightly than ever before. Sharing each other's warmth, carefully taking in each other's scent, and indulging in one last passionate kiss before being apart for who knows how long.

"See you love" Alice said as she blew a kiss

"I'll be waiting" Annie replied catching the elusive smooch

**********************************Two months later***********************************

So many weeks had passed in a haze, seeming to last forever, but now one day before her inevitable meeting with her betrothed. She had sent two holo-messages to Alice already with no response, no doubt due to the busy nature of moving hundreds of kilometers away. She dreaded tomorrow more than her own death, but there was nothing she could do.

Annie was already packed and ready. An outfit was already prepared and she was as ready as she could be. At the moment wearing nothing but a pair of pink silk panties and a matching bra to keep her breasts in place as she moved in her sleep, but no matter how she tried, her mind would not rest. She finally settled for occupying her restless mind with pleasant thoughts of her wet evening with Alice.

It felt like it would never come, but finally sleep overtook her.


Annie awoke with a yelp as the whole house shook from a violent explosion on the lower floors, her black ears swiveling as she could hear the guards shouting and gathering by the front entrance. Before long she could hear fighting but with who? She knew her father must have had enemies but none had ever been bold or dumb enough to attack him outright.

Annie knew better than to head towards the danger and opted to attempt to hide in her closet, Then she heard her father's booming voice, "Oh it's the wanna-be police gang's leader, and quite the cocky bastard coming by yourself." He boomed, laughing deeply "Well Mr. Hero I have something for you...ANNIE!!! GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE!"

Annie jumped at hearing her name shouted by her father. Knowing all too well the consequences of disobeying, she slid from her closet, putting on her robe as she hurried down to her father.

"Ah! Finally, the princess arrives" her father said sarcastically

Annie gasped as she entered the large Foyer by the front door. There were bodies everywhere, and at the center, an intimidating white wolf with black tiger stripes and fangs too long for his maw and a scar across his left eye, wielding a tanto blade with a plasma edge. His cat eyes were a piercing yellow as he watched Annie as she entered the room. He wore a tattered white shirt, cut by a slash that cut into his burly chest, and blue jeans exhibiting the wolf's massive thighs and a whip on his hip. This fur, while bigger than herself, was by no means on par with the size and presence of her father but somehow had cleared a room full of henchmen and stood before the panther without an ounce of fear. The room was heavy with the scent of blood and other unpleasant smells caused by death. There was one guard still alive behind the wolf, an otter, currently attempting to leave the room by dragging his body across the floor, his organs spilling from his abdomen. She was snapped from the gruesome image as her father viciously grabbed her arm and held his own double-edged sword to her throat. She did not understand but she feared for her life knowing full well how little she mattered to her father.

"So Mr. Hero how about you throw that sword away because if you know anything about me you'll know one more death on my hands is nothing to me, but how would you feel with a pretty girl's death on your conscience?" her father grinned seeming to know the wolf's answer as he pressed the blade to Annie's throat, drawing blood and eliciting a scream from the frightened girl.

"Your own daughter?!" the wolf snarled as he threw his sword to his right, imbedding it to the hilt in a solid pillar

"You're no saint wolf, look around you!" The panther laughed using his sword to point at the carnage

Seeing an opportunity as the panther boasted, the wolf moved like lightning, using his whip to rip the sword away from the dysfunctional family, and lunging at the intimidating figure atop a small flight of stairs. "YOU KILLED THEM!! THEY WERE IN THE NEUTRAL ZONE!" the wolf threw a punch aimed at the panther's face. The patriarch saw this coming and lifted his confused daughter in its path. The wolf screamed his fury as he pulled his punch and rotated his body lowering into a smooth but powerful leg sweep, causing the older fur to drop the screaming girl to catch himself. The wolf quickly caught Annie and before the panther could react jumped easily 5 meters into the air and landed back where Annie first saw him. The wolf quickly closed the now crying girls robe and pulled his sword from the pillar as if from a banana before returning to his position and reigniting the plasma in his sword.

"You are good, I'll admit that, but you have already lost. But I'm curious, which Fur was it that I killed that brought you to my doorstep?"

"Not one but many, you fucking trash-pile, mange-infested, heartless, sorry excuse for a father" The wolf growled "Two months ago you destroyed the FTL-train hub. Killing thousands"

"Oh that? I simply had to get rid of my fleeing neighbor, he was a politician trying to make a difference or something. Either way he was interrupting business, it wasn't personal" the shadowy figure laughed. Removing his own shirt and tie. "Well come then mutt, I don't have all day."

The wolf took a deep breath, "KREEEYYY!!" the wolf screamed and before Krey could blink, he had closed the distance between himself and the panther, leaving only a small crater where he once stood from the impact of his launch.

Alice was left reeling, trying to process the implication of what was said. Her one friend was dead. She simply could not handle the strain of the loss of what she saw as the only good afforded her in her miserable life. Alice receded deep within herself, only vaguely aware of the events unfolding around her, seemingly in slow motion.

Krey was honestly surprised by this, not only did this wolf know he was responsible for the incident; he also knew his real name. Not only that, the panther nearly did not have time to parry the incoming deadly blow. The wolf rapidly delivered strikes from as many angles as he could manage to circumvent the panther's guard, using the wall and the banisters on either side to occasionally attempt an attack from above, spinning rapidly and accurately to dramatically increase the resulting force. Krey was on the defensive, barely managing to active the plasma edge on his own weapon, he had fought many battles before and was confident in his ability against the smaller opponent but force exerted by the fur was disproportionate, and Krey was losing feeling in his arms just blocking the blows. The two fought fiercely for nearly half an hour, a testament to the will and stamina of both parties as the clashes of their swords sent visible shockwaves in every direction, the magnetic fields managing the plasma, exploding energy and heat with every powerful blow but holding firm. The wolf was gaining the upper hand however, blow after blow beating Krey in a test of speed and power. Then it happened...

"GYYYAAAAHH!!" the panther yelled as the energy bladed weapon cut deep into the flesh of his lower torso, slashing outward and nearly rending the large man in two while instantly cauterizing the wound. Annie laid where the wolf had placed her, not realizing the group of three that entered the room behind them, armed with swords and submachine-guns, still in a catatonic state at the realization that her friend was gone forever.

KIILLL HIIIMM!! Krey shouted at the henchmen, clutching his wound

The wolf had realized the murderous intent pooling behind him only moments before but he had already launched himself towards the defenseless girl slumped on the floor, arriving mere milliseconds before the shards of metal reached her, clutching her close and shielding the half-fox with his own body. The bullets stopped just shy of his blood splattered fur losing all kinetic energy as his APOG field glimmered for a moment. The guards dropped their guns without missing a beat, drawing their swords. The wolf stood before them, his piercing yellow cat eyes staring intently as he activated his own sword. His tanto blade flickered and then went out, expelling a smoking energy cartridge from the hilt. "FUUUCK!!" the wolf yelled as he pierced the granite flooring with the sword, holding it in place as he released a blood curdling roar, nearly as loud as the explosion the blew the gaping whole in the front of the mansion. The wolf charged at the three men unarmed. The first was quickly dispatched by the wolf's claws piercing the lion's chest, stabbing the mammal's heart, caught off guard by the speed and ferocity of the attack. The other two were a Turtle and a zebra, they attacked in unison but the wolf dodged grabbing the turtle's wrist at the end of his strike, turning to force the turtles shell between him and the incoming blow from the zebra. The sword burned deep into the shell and through the turtle, which the wolf used to his advantage, leg-sweeping the turtle forcing the embedded blade to twist and deactivate, snapping in two. The forceful and impromptu deactivation of the plasma blade and field creating a small explosion as the incredible heat of the plasma was no longer managed by the magnetic field and rapidly expanded the molten metal and the air around it, sending a shard flying into the wolf and the blood and viscera of the turtle onto them both as it sent them flying in opposite directions. The wolf was fortunate that a shard of metal lodged in his torso was stopped by his ribs, but that did not prevent the excruciating pain. He cursed at his ineptitude and roared at the pain as he rose to his feet to continue, but the zebra was already running out the gaping hole in the house.

The wolf staggered over to his sword, ripping it from the earth and using it as a cane and trailing drops of blood as he walked to Krey's lifeless corpse, having died of his wounds during the battle. He picked up Krey's sword and stabbed the sword into the floor through Krey's head, feeling the skull beneath the blade bend and crack before giving way and traveling smoothly through the panther's brain matter before going through the other side, taking no chances and wanting his revenge.

"Xena pick-up for two. Scan guest for bugs and injuries then run first aid protocols for me, Class 3 at least." The wolf huffed into his watch stumbling toward Annie "Girl... what was it... Annie? We need to go. Now."

"Thank you, Mr. Tiger-wolf, but I have nothing left. My only reason to live apparently died two months ago while I was worried about a stupid marriage. I would rather die here." Annie responded despondently

"They will blame some of this carnage on you girlie, even if you are a harmless kitten, now I didn't save you just for you to die" The wolf growled as he hilted his blade in the sheath held horizontally on his lower back at his waist. "Now lets go, and my name is Odon Donnovan, not Tiger-wolf" Odon said as he lifted Annie, careful to catch her fluffy tail so it did not drag but getting blood on her robe as he carried her. She started to struggle at first but halted as a low growl emanated from the throat of her new savior. An all blacked out Tri-mobile craft landed in front of them, it was bold but sleek, resembling a nimble space fighter without wings, emitting energy from its fusion core. The doors opened like rising wings as Odon approached. He placed Annie in the back seat and closed the door before getting in himself.

"Welcome back, sir" Xena, the AI, stated

"Just do as I asked, and hurry up, I'm losing my life juice over here. And set a course for HQ" Odon panted, resting his head against the seat.

"Sir, three tracking and/or monitoring devices found, estimated time to complete removal, 10 minutes, already deactivated. No injuries. Your wounds are being tended to via nanomachines, estimated time to completion two hours." The AGA stated plainly as it rushed through the sky to base.

"Fucking slimy bastard" The wolf growled "His own fucking daughter"

Annie was exhausted from all the excitement, more than she thought possible and immediately fell asleep in this stranger's car.

Odon calmly looked out into the night but it was going to be a trying week he just knew it.

To Be Continued