Human Made Cub Hot Chocolate Cubs Declared It Liquid Courage

The cubs were from the Veren clans, apex hunters, bred from birth to tackle prey twice their size. Histon officer, but the human, a small mechanic named Mara, simply blinked up from her bowl, smiled, and said the sentence that would later become a sector-wide legend. He paused, almost reverent, and, fearless, Mara shrugged, wiping a smudge of chocolate from one cub's cheek. The cafeteria inhaled sharply, because in Veren culture, declaring someone essential to your cubs was equivalent to naming them pack, family, protected, untouchable, Mara froze. No alien could, because they knew, in that single, impossible moment, why humanity had survived every war, every empire, every apocalypse the galaxy had thrown at them, humans raised their young with both frosty.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/little-scifi-stories-on-the-go--7033804/support.