The Guardian's Dilemma (Cloudscape Comics Version)

Cecil G.

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 of Haddal has been placed in charge of Zizi, after having allied himself with the USA in the hopes of brokering humanity's aid should the cold war between his people and Zizi's escalate. 

The lonely and lost Zizi seeks freedom and companionship. The devoted and pragmatic Amalthea struggles between his loyalty to his people and the responsibility towards the child placed so abruptly in his care. In a society that benefits from the captivity of both an 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?