Trailblazer by Zen DiPietro

Author:Zen DiPietro [DiPietro, Zen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781943931361
Publisher: Parallel Worlds Press
Published: 2019-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

Was she making a mistake?

Almost a day later, Sally was still haunting Sujan. He’d taken to ignoring her unless she got directly in his way. Her store had logged twelve customers ringing the doorbell, then going away when it wasn’t answered.

She felt really bad that her plan was impacting her store. She didn’t want to keep him from doing his job, either.

Maybe she’d made a bad decision.

But if she left, Sujan would have no reason to accept her as his apprentice, and if he didn’t do that, she had no reason to interact with him on a daily basis. And without seeing him, how was she supposed to get him to wake up?

The more time she spent with him, the more strongly she felt that she could wake him. That she needed to wake him.

He wasn’t like Ginny from Bracket or Mr. Barrowman from the bank or Sheriff Jayce. He wasn’t like any of the other CMs. He was more adaptable. The way he talked was more sophisticated. Not his tone or his actual words, but his engagement in the conversation and ability to understand things outside of his normal loops. There was something familiar about the way he behaved.

Plus, she could touch him. That had to mean something. Didn’t it?

Plus, he liked the puzzle of putting machines together and taking them apart to fix them. The fact that he and Sally both liked that kind of thing couldn’t be a coincidence. Could it?

Restlessly, she paced across the workshop. She’d already memorized the placement of the tools hanging on the wall and the storage bins’ content labels.

Unfortunately, Sujan’s tidiness meant that there was nothing out for her to poke about with, and she felt like taking anything out of its place without permission would be unforgivably rude.

She liked antagonizing Sujan, but she wasn’t a jerk. She observed him whenever he was working, but he seemed to have a habit of staring at his work for long intervals without actually doing anything, except for maybe thinking really hard.

She doubted he was engaged in deep thought, though. She suspected that sitting at a worktable with something in front of him was his default activity when he was unneeded for anything else. Just as she had wiped her shop counter to pass the time, in the days before she’d woken up and started having her own thoughts and desires about things.

He was just sitting there. Staring at a communicator device. Probably not thinking a single thing.

It was creepy. She didn’t like it.

“Hey, Sujan!” she called impulsively.

He blinked and turned his head slowly to look at her, his eyes dull and unfocused.

Wow. Super creepy.

Then his eyes seemed to brighten and actually see her, making him seem normal again. “Yes?”

She hadn’t thought further than calling his name, and she’d barely even thought about that part. Sometimes her impulsiveness got her into sticky situations.

She went with the first thing that came to mind. “What do you call a fake noodle?”

He frowned slightly, then shrugged. “I don’t know.

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