Today’s Tentacle Young Lady Is Also Going To Keep Humans Captive!

The fish sizzled over the fire, fat dripping onto the charcoal and rising as a wisp of fragrant smoke. The girls sat around the campfire, though their thoughts had already drifted toward tomorrow’s journey. Clearly, with their status and abilities, it was impossible for them to jolt along for three days in the hard-seat carriage of a steam train.
They had arrived on an old but reliable ion-engine transport aircraft—its exterior mottled with rust, a faded label on the wing reading “North Weigler Aeronautics Research Institute – Experimental Craft.” But once it was in the air, it flew steady as…