Consider Pegasus by SI CLARKE

Author:SI CLARKE [Clarke, Si]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781739768119
Publisher: White Hart Fiction

10 Zippy the walking rainbow

Spock and I trailed Bexley to the big garden in the centre of the station. She flopped down on the pale purple sand beneath a cluster of fiery orange grasses.

Bexley pushed her forelock down. ‘What are we going to do? What’s my family supposed to do? I thought for sure the GU would help them. I don’t…’ She looked up at me, her eyes glistening. ‘I hate this feeling. Life is a constant adventure for me. I never know what’s around the corner and I like it that way. But this… I can’t help my parents. I brought them here and promised I could sort this and there’s nothing I can do. If I weren’t a unicorn, I’d be smarter and I’d be able to—’

My hand shot up. ‘No! This has nothing to do with you not being smart. First of all, you are. And secondly, you are not less than anyone. Ever. Okay? And thirdly…’ I shrugged. ‘I don’t know. But we’ll figure something out.’ I wracked my brain trying to think of what that might be.

The three of us sat in the arboretum for … some amount of time. We did not go back to the pub and get drunk. Definitely not.

‘Hey, Bexley,’ I said eventually.

She was lying on her back in the sand. ‘Wanna go back to the pub and get drunk?’

‘Yeah. Why not – it’s almost lunchtime.’ It was, in fact, not anywhere near lunchtime. But I couldn’t remember ever feeling this bleak. At least a beer – or something like it – would wash the sour taste from my mouth.

Spock leapt to her feet and wagged her tail. ‘Feed Spock?’

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