The Guardians Dilemma

Zizi of Cleo knows there’s no going back after their starship home is shot down, stranding them on Earth. Placed in the custody of agents operating a top-secret facility for alien life, they have to contend with interrogation, confinement, and worst of all... Meddlesome adults.

Neveth Amalthea Musleath - an alien hailing from the planet Haddal - is placed in charge of most beings from outside our solar system. Zizi is his latest ward; a nut to crack for the citizens of Earth and a living connection to his own homeworld from which he has not heard in some time. The connection is tenuous at best - aliens to Earth, but also to one another.

Neveth serves as jailer, interrogator, and the only possible opportunity for companionship in the oppressive system Zizi finds themself in for the crime of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In a society that benefits from the captivity of both and demands their compliance, can Amalthea and Zizi reconcile their needs and wants with each other and with humanity? Can one truly care for another when placed in a terrible position that benefits from its prisoners being at odds?