Strength by Jane Washington & Jaymin Eve

Author:Jane Washington & Jaymin Eve [Washington, Jane & Eve, Jaymin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-19T16:00:00+00:00

Ten

I didn’t have the energy to do anything other than slump down at the circular table and start pulling food toward my face. Rome came along behind me soon after and looped an arm around my middle, lifting me up from the stool. In response, I just leaned further over the table so that I could continue shovelling noodles into my mouth.

Shifting his position slightly, he took my place on the stool and sat me down so that I was now on his right leg. Then, without a word, he began pointing to the various foods arrayed before us. With one hand, I fed myself, while my other followed his indication, picking up the foods he was interested in and handing them back to him. The others watched our process with slightly astonished looks on their faces.

“That’s actually impressive.” Siret saluted me with his bread roll.

I tried to swallow most of the food in my mouth before I thanked him, because multitasking was only good up until the point where you were talking and eating, and then multitasking suddenly wasn’t something to be that proud of.

We didn’t say anything more as we ate, mostly because the two remaining sols were still in the room, but also because we were all starving. I wasn’t sure how many meals we had skipped, but it was too many. After eating, Rome gently set me down again, and we started to file out of the room. I was sure that the guys had forgotten all about the two sols by that point, but they all seemed to be in a good mood so I didn’t want to ruin it by pointing out that the two girls had slipped out after them and were now following us.

“So, how did we do on our first sun-cycle of being godly instructors?” Siret asked me, throwing his arm around me and pulling me into his side.

I was grateful for the embrace, because I still didn’t want to slip on the frost-covered stone stairs leading down the mountain. I clutched at his shirt as we stepped down, wondering why the five of them didn’t seem to need any further protection against the cold, whereas I did.

“You did great,” I told him. “Your student really seemed to be ... learning ... so much. What was your illusion teaching her?”

“He was running through a list of all the punishments given to gods who make eye-contact on Topia.”

I arched a brow at him. “That doesn’t happen.”

“Hi.” He held out his free hand to me. “My name is Siret, I’m the god of Trickery. Of course it doesn’t happen, but she learnt something at least.”

“She learnt something that isn’t even true.”

“Better than nothing.”

I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to argue with that logic or not, so I dropped it. “Where are we going?”

“We’re going to find Cyrus, obviously. We have our assignment, remember?”

“I have my assignment,” I corrected him. “And I don’t really think that the last rotation and a half counts as the required amount of teaching.

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