Remnants by Honor Raconteur

Author:Honor Raconteur
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raconteur House
Published: 2018-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

For the second time in two days, I found myself kneeling in front of my wife, seriously in trouble. Chi kneeled right there with me, all sorts of resigned. Unlike last time, Vee had joined my wife, as well as Maksohm, and between the three of them, they presented the best job at Disappointed Face I’d ever seen. Bar none.

This was going to go so poorly.

“In my defense—” Chi started hopefully “—he ran it the first time just fine, didn’t he, Bannen?”

“He really did, like a pro,” I answered, bobbing my head up and down in enthusiastic support of this. “And he asked, it wasn’t like we were just inviting random people, right Chi?”

“Right, he totally asked.”

Vee gave a laborious sigh, and no one could sigh like a giant, even a part giant. Whole lakes and tides could be affected by that sigh. “Chi. Let me get this straight. I told you not to shoot at Bannen—”

“I didn’t do that,” Chi assured her proudly.

“—so your next thought was that it would be safer to fire at poles while jumping off a decaying, two-story building?”

He lost his smile and stared up at her uncertainly. “Is this a trick question? I feel like this is a trick question. I would appreciate this not being a trick question. How about true/false, I do better with true/false.”

“No.”

“Well, mother hugger.” Because Chi was my brother from another mother, he promptly threw me under the train. “It was Bannen’s idea.”

All eyes switched immediately to me. Thanks a lot, Chi. “Well, you said no firing at each other, and we both know how to jump from tall places and land correctly…”

Rena tapped a finger against her upper arm, giving me a basilisk stare. Seriously, she could strip paint from metal with that stare. “I know good and well that you can safely jump from those sorts of heights and land without serious injury. But didn’t it occur to you that perhaps, just perhaps, other people, NORMAL people, don’t have that same skillset? That perhaps you should warn them that you’re specially trained, and an MISD agent, and maybe they shouldn’t follow in your completely crazy footsteps?”

Okay, admitting to this might have been a mistake. “Noooooo,” I said at last, drawing the word out in the hopes that by the time I finished it, Rena would have forgotten what the question was. I didn’t expect to be that lucky, but hey, I had to try.

“Even after you wrenched your shoulder?” she inquired with saccharine sweetness.

Sards. Of course she could see that. It was very inconvenient, having a wife that could literally see through everything.

Maksohm’s head dropped back so he could stare at the sky. Not that I blamed him, skies were nice, they didn’t demand problematic answers from you. “Of course he did. And judging by the way Chi’s moving, he’s wrenched his ankle.”

“Mild twinge,” Chi denied instantly. “I can walk it off.”

“You’ll do no such thing,” Vee retorted threateningly. “And get up, both of you, you look ridiculous.

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