Amazon Companion by Roseau Robin

Author:Roseau, Robin [Roseau, Robin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Robin Roseau
Published: 2013-12-28T08:00:00+00:00

Trip

"Why am I not on the duty roster beginning tomorrow?" It was breakfast three days later. "All my assignments have been assigned to other companions."

"I thought I told you we had a trip coming. We're going to visit the other villages."

"When do we leave?"

"Tomorrow morning. You can assign your snares to someone else or take them in for now."

"If someone wants them, she can have them while we're gone."

"You'll have to show them this afternoon." She paused. "If you want to skip training this afternoon, Omie and Vorine would like to check your snares with you. You could take the girls, too. I think you should accept."

"Whatever you say," I told her. I paused. "We're going to be gone for the first day I was supposed to do swimming lessons." I was good at swimming, and I didn't feel I was good at anything else the Amazons found valuable. I'd been looking forward to teaching everyone to swim better.

"They'll wait," Malora replied.

I excused myself to make arrangements, gathering the available companions. Varda was back, and I didn't want to extend the invitation to her, but I didn't know how to avoid it. Nevertheless, I was able to grab Bea, Neela, Aura, and the two sisters. "I have a trip with my warrior beginning tomorrow. Does anyone want to take over my snares while I am gone? If not, I'll take them down this afternoon."

Neela and Aura wanted to share them. "You need to ask your warriors," Vorine pointed out. "We can ask before training this morning."

"My warrior has offered to allow me to skip training this afternoon for this," I added. "The offer appears to be contingent on Vorine and Omie going along."

The two immediately began to smile. "We would love to."

"What about me?" Bea asked. "My warrior is not here to ask."

I turned to her. She hadn't gone on patrol with her warrior, and that meant none of the companions had gone. "Why didn't she take you with?"

"Um." She looked at me. "I don't want to answer that."

"All right," I said. "So everyone wants to go this afternoon, if Neela's and Aura's warriors will allow them to tend my snares?"

"We want to go whether or not we may tend your snares," Neela said to a set of nods from everyone else.

"We'll have to invite Varda."

"Don't you worry about Varda," Omie said. "If she comes, Vorine and I will see to it she behaves."

"Thank you."

And so, twenty minutes later, when we were done stretching but hadn't done our morning run, I stood up and announced, "The companions have a request for this afternoon. May we present it?"

"Certainly, Pink," Nori said. She probably already knew what it was. I didn't think Malora would have given me the offer she had without Nori being aware.

All of us had been caught at least once with smudged lips from our punishment, and Malora had tacked on additional days, so I was still wearing pony tails and pink lips, plus my hair was still a brilliant pink.

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