Burn the Night by Jonathan Yanez

Author:Jonathan Yanez [Yanez, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-27T16:00:00+00:00

15

Emma fell into such a deep sleep, dreams didn’t even bother to pierce the depth of her slumber. It seemed like she had just closed her eyes for a second when Layga and Jeba were trying to move quietly around the room and dress for their day at the Academy.

Even though Emma’s life had drastically changed when she was chosen by the vambraces to be Earth’s Arilion Knight, life at the Academy for everyone else was business as usual.

Emma was just mustering the courage it would take her to sit up in bed and start her own morning when her holo band blinked off and on, signaling an incoming message.

Emma brushed away the blonde strand of hair in her eyes. She read the message. It was from Slain. The Human Arilion Knight working with General Fox has arrived. He would like to meet with you in the mess hall when you are ready.

“Holy crap!” Emma jumped from her bed, searching for her Academy uniform like a wild woman.

“She finally went off the deep end.” Jeba shook her head. “The stress of being an Arilion Knight proved too much for her feeble mind.”

“No, no, I’m fine.” Emma felt a tingle of excitement race toward her stomach as she pulled on her boots and buttoned her shirt. “I mean, I’ve been excited to meet this guy for a long time, but I didn’t know it would happen so soon. Should I shower? Do I have time to shower?”

Layga smoothed down her own black and purple Academy uniform. “How much did you sweat yesterday?”

“What?” Emma asked, trying to wrangle her hair into something presentable.

“That’s how I gauge the necessity of a shower,” Layga explained. “If I sweat during the day, I know I need a shower for sure. If I didn’t, then I feel good about skipping the shower for the day.”

“That’s disgusting, giant.” Jeba shook her head as if she were disappointed in her friend. “You need to bathe, especially your nether regions every day. Sometimes even twice if they begin to feel unclean.”

“Ugh, I just don’t have time.” Emma stopped her manic process of getting ready and stood in the room, debating a shower. “He’s already there waiting for me.”

“Here.” Layga ran to the dresser by her bed and came back with a spray bottle full of black liquid. “It’s a perfume I usually save for special occasions, but it’ll help with masking any scent. Just be sure to take a shower before you go to bed tonight.”

“Okay, okay, cool. Thanks Layga.” Emma approached her friend with her arms open.

As Layga applied the first spray from her bottle, Emma understood how horrible of a mistake she had just made. The odor of the perfume hit her nostrils like a batch of newly cooked bbq, which wasn’t a necessarily horrible smell to Emma. She liked bbq; she just didn’t want to smell like it.

“Whoa, that’s enough,” Emma said to her friend as Layga applied a second spray, this time moving from her torso to her face.

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