The Human Familiar by Honor Raconteur

Author:Honor Raconteur [Raconteur, Honor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy
Publisher: Raconteur House
Published: 2017-09-28T07:00:00+00:00

Seeing Bannen braid my hair the next morning before breakfast set off some sort of braiding craze. Master for some reason hadn’t liked the idea of me being in Bannen’s room, so instead we went to the dining area and Bannen braided my hair at the table. He did some sort of elaborate style where it became three braids that were then braided and looped around each other. Master did a quick mirror spell so I could see it. It looked pretty, but even more importantly, it felt very secure. So secure that I might need Bannen’s help unraveling it again.

But because we did it in the dining hall, everyone else in our party saw his skills, and the next thing I knew, there was a line six girls deep wanting him to do theirs.

Bannen, good natured about it, picked up a hairbrush and hair ties, and went to work. Since we had limited time to eat before going, I ordered him breakfast along with mine. He was three girls in when he said in an off-hand manner, “Apparently braiding a woman’s hair in public pulls a hidden switch. There’s a life lesson to be learned here, I just can’t put my finger on it.”

I laughed and offered him a forkful of eggs. “Shall I feed you?”

“Don’t you dare,” Emily threatened without turning her head. She apparently didn’t want a crooked braid. “He’ll get egg in my hair.”

Bannen paused and leaned forward to snatch the bite anyway.

“Hey!” Emily protested even as I laughed. Somehow, I just knew he’d do that.

I snuck him periodic bites. Call me petty, but I felt a little pleased that everyone else’s hairstyles weren’t as elaborate as mine. They looked good, but he clearly wasn’t going to spend the same amount of time on theirs. Little things that he did like this made me feel special.

Although, now those little things were also making me sad. I had no idea what I was going to do when he left. I just knew it was going to be ugly.

Derek passed by with a plate of food in his hands, sneering at us as he went. Bannen paused, alert and ready to move if necessary. Perhaps Derek realized that it was better to not try something, as he kept walking. Bannen stared after him another moment before commenting, “Is it just me that wants to put a boot up his arse every time I see him?”

“No,” Emily assured him, “That’s universal.”

Master Vonda came to sit at the table, her plate mounded with bacon, as per usual. I swore she ate it three times a day. “We have expressed our concerns with the Council about Derek on more than one occasion. The run-ins he has with all of our apprentices is more than worrying. He’s caused several accidents that could have been very harmful.”

“In the more long-term sense,” Tarkington added, a tea cup poised in front of his mouth, “the very people he is antagonizing now are soon to be peers.

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