Thousand Tales- The Great Sage by Kris Schnee

Author:Kris Schnee [Schnee, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2019-04-13T22:00:00+00:00

3. The Great Sage

The fleet arrived on the inn island, carrying the crew, and without Sprout. So now Iris and Sig were on Sunset's island, unaware of the chance to negotiate, and Volt and Phoenix would take a while to reach them. "Miss Alma," Phoenix said. "Will you come along this time?"

She said, "I'm just an observer, but sure."

Volt rallied the kids who'd been waiting to ride back, and they boarded the ships. Phoenix asked the crew, "What's the latest?"

A wizard girl said, "We keep getting beaten up. Can't get anywhere."

"We're going to try something else next."

Volt and Phoenix hung out in a cramped cabin on one of the smaller boats. After a little while of reading while they rode along, Volt asked, "What do we do after we conquer the island?"

He shrugged. "I guess we commute to Talespace from there. Or... we move the island back to Talespace after we've tried living with real privacy."

"Do we even have that here?" she asked, waving around the cramped cabin.

"As much as we ever can."

Volt leaned forward and kissed him, grinning mischievously. "I've been wanting to try that for a while."

Phoenix was speechless. Touching the spark-dragon's muzzle had been like a physical shock, warm and exciting. "Really?"

They were crouching together under the low ceiling. She blushed, saying, "Mom was always watching. It shouldn't matter, but somehow it did. I kept thinking about how she'd approve or wouldn't, and then wondering exactly what she'd say."

"We'd get an achievement message," he said. "And she'd tell our parents. Mine, anyway."

"What achievement would you get?"

"I don't know. 'Lay the Dragon'?"

She snorted, and sparks flickered along her nose. "Then I'd get one called 'Hot Stuff'."

He'd grown up knowing Volt as a fellow adventurer, part of the gang, actually the first he'd met among his circle of friends. But she wasn't one of the ones who'd been rescued from sickness and death. She was special. She didn't even have parents, just the AI watching over her shoulder. She was great anyway, and she'd dealt with some of the same scary things he'd lived through.

Volt sighed. "She'll know eventually. I'm not even sure why I care. But I want something of my own." She looked into his eyes again. "Can we have this to ourselves, for now?"

Phoenix smiled and tried kissing her for himself. He had no idea what he was doing, but it was nice.

* * *

The diminished fleet caught sight of Sunset's island at dawn. Up on deck he stood close to Volt. "I'll fly out there to let them know what's going on." Some of the kids were trying to extinguish a fire before it could burn a stack of barrels. Iris was leading them with spells of splashing water.

He climbed the mast and flew. Sig and Iris waved to him as they finally got the flames under control. Sig said, "We're not making progress."

"I know. So we changed the rules. Sunset agreed to upgrade one of the enemies, so now there's a smarter monkey to talk to.

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