The Guardian by Quinn Arthurs

Author:Quinn Arthurs [Arthurs, Quinn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-15T07:00:00+00:00

14

“This is boring,” I grumbled. I had finally progressed past the point where Onyx and Terran insisted on a protective wall while I played with the flame. I had been relegated to sitting on an armchair in the room and practicing flicking my flame on and off like a human lighter.

While it had been amusing for the first several attempts, it quickly grew to mundane. I wanted to try and expand the flame. I didn’t really think just causing my finger to light up would do more than help Birch light a cigarette to put out on me — not exactly the effect I was going for as the embarrassment would be solely in my court.

“Learning control is necessary.” Reed’s voice was muffled, not bothering to pull his nose from the book he was reading. He’d been listening to me grumble for the past two hours. “You don’t get on the ice and attempt to jump first, you learn to push one skate in front of the other, you hold onto something.”

“You ice skate?” I turned confused eyes to him, letting the flame on my fingertips extinguish.

“You don’t?” he shot back, still refusing to look at me. “You stopped practicing.” How he knew that when he couldn’t even see my hand, I had absolutely no idea.

“I’ve never ice skated,” I admitted, turning my attention back to my flame with a pout. I figured they’d kept Reed here not only to help me if I needed it but as my own personal fire extinguisher. The other three had disappeared to their own activities. At least I could be singeing Onyx for fun at this point, but it seemed he had better things to do than to hang out with me while I turned myself on and off.

“Well we can rectify that this winter. The pond in the courtyard freezes over well, skating is popular amongst several of us.”

“Terran and Onyx skate?” I asked, skeptical. The idea of large, imposing Terran doing something as graceful as ice skating was a hard image to process, let alone the sulky Onyx.

“I guess you’ll have to stick around and find out.” Reed’s cryptic reply had me sticking my tongue out at him.

“I wouldn’t suggest doing that,” Reed commented, dryly amused. “Many would take it as an offer, a pretty woman like you.”

I blinked, surprised. He thought I was pretty? “Okay, I give, how the hell did you even see me do that?” I huffed.

“If I told you it wouldn’t be nearly as fun, now would it?” I could clearly hear the laughter in his voice.

“Well, if you’ve been watching then you know I’ve been flicking this switch on and off for the last hour,” I pointed out to him. “Isn’t it about time I tried something else?”

Reed sighed, finally putting aside the book. “We can try expanding the flame. I still think you should practice more with it first.”

“We don’t have years of study here,” I reminded him. “The goal is to approach Birch in two days.

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