Joined: Book One by Mara Gan

Author:Mara Gan [Gan, Mara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: k'12
Publisher: Inkspell Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

I couldn’t keep it from him forever.

Today was my other dark secret: the city Dískos tournament. I hadn’t played a game since my Protector had arrived on the station, and I had done everything I could to prevent him from finding out my favorite form of exercise.

I was absolutely not going to miss this tournament. My team and I had planned for it months ago, and I couldn’t let them down. Besides, there weren’t a lot of people in the city who even knew how to play, and as the team captain, I would be difficult to replace.

I’d rather risk the wrath of my Protector than miss this game.

He had not been pleased at the news. I hadn’t told him about the tourney until this morning, and being ever resourceful, he had already learned just what Dískos was and why I was keeping it from him, but he didn’t prevent me from playing. Yalan probably would have broken my arm to keep me out of the game, but Perseus was just going to sit in the bleachers and scowl.

He was good at scowling.

I didn’t get the impression he had ever played sports. He rarely talked about his past, but from what I could glean from him and Gi, it had been mostly about survival before becoming a mercenary, and the life of a mercenary hardly left room for recreation. Most of his exercise probably came from beating people up. To play sports, friends and rules were needed, neither of which mercenaries had in abundance.

But from the look of his muscles, he certainly had plenty of people to beat up.

I shook my head. I loved sports. The teamwork, the camaraderie, the goal, the rush of adrenaline, all of it. My job had left little time for it lately, but I loved it nonetheless.

And it was good to see my teammates again. Most of them had odd jobs around the city, and our paths didn’t cross much. The city was huge, after all.

The game required a disc to be passed from player to player down the length of an enormous field. If the disc dropped, it passed to the other team, and the player holding the disc was not allowed to move. Aside from that, there were no rules.

I smiled. Perseus should appreciate that part.

The game involved an astonishing amount of trickery, deception, agility, and endurance. Oh, we had the basics in place—no killing, maiming, or otherwise permanently damaging the opponents—but that was it.

I stretched, breathing through my nose to clear my head, and began tossing the disc with my teammate Pyshka, the green-skinned woman from Tumbuhan who Gi had noticed in the tavern some time ago. Because of her photosynthetic skin, she had to spend time in the sunlight for several hours every day, so the artificial sunlight on a Dískos field was almost medically necessary for her.

She threw the disc high, and I leaped to catch it and toss it back, landing nimbly on my feet. I loved how

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