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“I appreciate all the concern, but I’m good,” she said. “I’m ready to go with this. I’m ready to marry an alien! Caley - are you ready to start recording?”
“Uh, I think so,” her friend said, holding up what I recognized as my mate’s small handheld device.
“Let me check real quick.” Jessica pulled her hand from mine abruptly and stepped over to her friend. “Yes, it's recording. No live stream this time! Let’s restart from the walk, follow behind me, focus on my dress and the muscles in my back, and then pan up to catch a glimpse of Aeson, then backup and get a wide shot of the ceremony. Got it?”
“Oh… okay… I think I can do that…” Caley stammered.
They walked a few feet back and Jessica began to move, floating towards me again, Caley tight behind her, the device held close to Jessica’s back.
“Now actually pan over to me putting my hands in his,” Jessica said as she reached out for my hands. I took her hands as the other human moved the device over close to them. “Now back up and catch us looking at each other. Aeson, give me your best adoring look, yes, just like that!”
I wasn’t sure what she was talking about. All I wanted to do was look at her and take her in at this moment, and when she gazed up at me, I could see all the warmth the future promised the both of us shimmering in her brilliant smile.
“Let’s turn together to face the officiant,” she said, turning to do so. I shifted to follow her leave. “Ok, now make sure to be good and loud. I’m going to use the audio for this part.”
“Right.” The officiant cleared his throat.
[ 10 ]
JESSICA
I was barely paying attention to the ceremony.
My plan had been to smile at the camera every once in a while to make the eventual audience feel like they were a part of everything, like they were on the journey with me, but I couldn’t look away from him.
He had colorful frills around his head that had spikes on the end.
How I had managed to avoid stabbing myself on them when I climbed on his back was a serious mystery I needed to solve. But not at the moment. At the moment, I couldn’t do anything more than stare at them.
They changed colors.
His headdress was a slowly shifting array of iridescent colors that fluttered like wind across the surface of a lake. His eyes were also changing colors, matching the display so that a color would cross the whole plane of the painting he was creating, from one side, across his eyes, and to the other.
The muscles in my shoulders relaxed.
It was like having my head and shoulders supported while I floated on my back in a heated outdoor hot spring, looking up at the brilliant stars above my head and knowing that I was a small speck of star dust riding on a massive spaceship called Earth as it hurtled, spiraling as it chased after the gravitational pull of a runaway star.
I blinked as a word caught my attention, pulling me back to what the preacher was saying beside me with a surge of emotion.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?” I asked. “You want me to repeat what?”
“The vows.” The preacher frowned at me. “I vow to be obedient and...”
"Oh, heck no,” I cut him off. “There is no way I’m including obedience in my marriage vows. Are you seriously marrying people and having them declaring a kink in front of the entire audience. You are one spicy preacher.”
The man’s face turned bright red.
“Caley.” I turned to look at her. “Make a note; you need to write up some vow options to give to the prospective couple or give them a minute to write their own. Don’t spring kink on them without letting them decide that for themselves in advance.”
“Obedience isn’t kink!” the preacher squawked.
“Shush, you clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.” I turned back to smile at Aeson. “I can come up with my vows on the spot, I’m great at improv.”
“I am eager to hear them.” Aeson smiled down at me. “I am delighted that you reject obedience as a promise to me. I would rather you promise to challenge me.”
"Oh, that’s a good one. Okay. Are we still recording Caley?” I asked.
“Yes,” she replied. “Do you want me to stop? Should I have stopped while you were giving notes?”
