The Traveler [ePub+PDF]

This title is available in The Black Box: Volume 12
Length: 18.7K words
 
Kinks served: Time travel, non-consent, sci-fi, alternate history, alien abduction, alien breeding kink
 
Blaire built a door through time because grief made a scientist of her.
No audience. No backup. Just a field she swore would hold long enough to grab the proof that should have saved the people she lost—and then bring her home.
The field does not hold.
She wakes in heat and leaf-rot, forty thousand years from every screen she trusts, with nothing on her skin but blood and the knowledge that five painted men have already decided what she is. Not a traveler. Not a mind. A thing the jungle dropped, pale and shining, into a world that has never seen a woman like her.
Dren does not ask if she wants to stay.
What follows is not a rescue, exactly. It is nights in a hide tent where her body keeps answering a to the brutal use of the tribe. It is a black tower that should not exist, humming with a purpose older than the tribe. It is a table built for “prime stock,” and a cycle that does not care what century she came from.
Blaire does the only thing she has ever known how to do.
She studies the thing that is using her until she can use it back.
When the hatch finally opens, the woman who steps into the light is not the one who left the lab. The tribe is waiting. The cracked machine that was supposed to take her home is at her feet. She does not pick it up.