Empyrean Iris Story Collection Vol. 3

The Forsaken

"So, am I ever going to hear how you managed that?"

"A true magician never reveals his secrets."

"If you're a magician, the only trick you have is pulling stupid out of a hat."

"I find that your pop culture knowledge Is annoyingly sufficient enough to insult me with it, and I am not sure how I feel about that."

Sunny snorted softly lying ack against the pillows. She had one set of hands behind her head and her right arm hooked through his. Adam lay next to her in a similar position both of them staring up at the ceiling.

"No seriously though, how'd you do it/'

Adam smiled wanly.

Sunny had been surprised last night when he showed up with Dzara out of the blue, and somehow had managed to gain the respect of the Drev, a Drev so uptight that her clenched but might just have broken the stick up her ass. Sunny was still having trouble accepting her new sister. She had even gone so far as to ask Yeb to run a DNA test, which had, come back positive to Sunny's.... what? Annoyance? Pleasure?

She wasn't entirely sure.

It was hard for her to admit that she didn't like Dzara much at this moment and she felt bad about it, but there was just something about her that rubbed Sunny the wrong way. Adam shifted to roll onto his side and she had to let go of his hand, though he offered her his right arm instead as he rested his head against her arm, "Did you know that the star above that particular planet has been experiencing a period of highly volatile solar flares?"

Sunny turned to look at him and did her best impression of a human raising an eyebrow, "Oh really."

"Yes, its been on the GA advisory board for the past few weeks. They're worried that it might cause an EMP power outage on the surface of the planet."

"Uh huh. An EMP you say."

He nodded.

She eyed him, "An EMP that could short out both your leg and your eye and the ship, but would also be fixable considering every ship has tools to recover from EMPs?"

A small smile tugged at the corner of his mouth, "Perhaps."

"So that's it then, you pulled your leg off in front of her? Or did you pop your eye out."

"it was the leg, though the eye would have been hilarious."

"She was surprised?"

"Yeah didn't seem to have caught on that they were both fake until I told her."

"How did that go over."

He shrugged, "Better than I thought. We had a bit of a talk. I don't think it completely changed her, you know there was no magic realization or anything, but I think I at least got her thinking. I played hard into the idea of what her people deserve, and how she can better do what is right for them." He scooted a little closer resting one hand against her chest carapace, "Say what you will about Dzara-"

"Uptight, humorless, pole up her ass."

"Say what you will, but she does care about her people and that is something I can respect. I think she had good intentions to start out with and things just went to far as a.... protective measure for her and the others."

"Maybe.' Sunny grumbled

He sat up and looked down at her with his head tilted, "Anyway, I should have started work half an hour ago, and Simon is probably dancing with anger." He leaned down and kissed her forehead before standing up, quickly dressing and stepping out. Sunny followed more slowly grabbing her spear and following him into the hallway.