Fresh Blood

He was climbing the corporate ladder, now he's climbing the food chain.Felix used to be a traveling salesman, drifting through the galaxy and hawking his wares. Used to be, that is, until a freak accident in an out of the way system. One rough landing later and Felix finds himself stranded on a wild, alien planet-- front and center in a deadly role he never auditioned for to entertain a secret audience. The upside? A fellow passenger made it to the escape pod with Felix. With this reptilian stranger at his side, he's not totally alone.The downside? They don't share a language. Worse, there's not one scrap of survival know-how between them, and an ominous clawing is coming from outside the escape pod.As if the struggle to avoid becoming lunch and finding some of their own wasn't enough, an autonomous implant from an unknown source seeks to integrate them into the system.