Ambrosia by Aaron Lee Yeager

Author:Aaron Lee Yeager [Yeager, Aaron Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-04T22:00:00+00:00

Agaprei watched as the island of Kólasi grew more distant on the horizon, the fishing ships diving in and out of the ring of mist looking like tiny tadpoles. She leaned back against the railing, the thrumming beats of their dragon’s wings whipping up her lavender hair as they rode on the howdah strapped to its back.

Kaia danced around, happily unwrapping each gift they had received from the ailuros and examining it. “Oh wow, look at this! A vial of unicorn tears.”

She spun around and held up the vial, the liquid contents glowing with a holy light.

“Careful with that,” Agaprei scolded, snatching it away.

“How much do you think we could sell this for?”

“Unicorn tears can purify any wound. There’s no better antiseptic in Agadis or Erotan. Even a few drops would be worth hundreds of thousands of pennigs.”

“Woo Hoo! We’re going to be rich.” Kaia’s eyes went wide with greed. “I’m going to have my own island. A sleek tropical island like the one where we grew up, with a cove filled with jellyfish and lots of big oily men to massage my feet and feed me chocolate.”

“I’m not sure how Orrin would feel about that.”

“Stop saying that! I don’t like him!”

“We’re not selling this,” Agaprei said, storing it away in her pack. “These gifts are for our Godmother.”

“Yeah, but she doesn’t have to know. I mean, she has so many, right? Surely she won’t miss a couple.”

Agaprei gave her sister a scolding look.

Kaia deflated to her haunches. “Fine…be a sour note, I mean it’s not like you care about whether or not I have any fun.”

“You and I have very different views about what it means to have fun,” Agaprei noted, pulling out a stack of contracts.

Kaia gnawed on a fingernail. “Clearly.”

“The idea of letting a man touch me honestly makes me want to throw up.”

Agaprei checked over each scroll, making sure that each clan chieftain had filled out the forms correctly.

Kaia yawned. “You’ve checked those three times already.”

“Never a bad idea to quadruple check.”

“Come on, you did great, sis. The ailuros agreed to everything. What’s more, the human’s festival was a big old steaming pile of failure. Didn’t you hear? Will you stop acting like something terrible is about to happen?”

Agaprei held the papers tightly. “I just can’t shake this feeling. Like I missed something.”

She tucked a strand of lavender hair behind her elegantly pointed ear. “Or like there was something I was supposed to do, but didn’t, or someone I was supposed to meet.”

She watched as the island grew smaller and smaller on the horizon.

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