Debris & Detritus by Robin D Owens

Author:Robin D Owens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Story Spring Publishing, LLC

Miranda could have sworn actual steam wafted from his nostrils.

She backed up another step and set the sword down on its velvet box.

As soon as her hand let go, a crashing wave of wrongness flooded her, and the sword screamed so loudly, she thought for a moment her eardrums would shatter. She touched it, and it paused, quiet, waiting for her to decide what to do next.

“Back away from it,” Griff said, the weight of authority in his voice so strong, it practically had a gravitational pull.

And yet. She couldn’t quit touching the sword. She wanted it. Badly. She’d never actually wanted anything, besides food, a place to sleep safely, a shower, and she wouldn’t say no to some shiny jewelry (she looked fondly over at the pristinely clean jewelry case), but the sword? Belonged to her.

“I don’t know why it’s screaming when I set it down.” She picked it up again. “Does it have an off switch?” she asked her boss. It must have some sort of electronic proximity gizmo, and she searched the hilt. She hadn’t remembered the hilt being quite that ornate, and quite that shiny of a silver, or why she’d thought it was ugly before. “Was this a film prop? Because they did a pretty good job. I don’t see any ‘Made in China’ stamp, either.”

She looked up to see Griff had covered his face with his hands, as if he needed to keep them busy to keep from strangling her. It was that distinctive strangling vibe that made her take another step back and look away.

“Anyway, if you’ll show me how to turn it off, and give me my wages, and by the way, an extra two weeks severance would not be at all out of order here. I’m sure there’s a ton of OSHA violations I could report.”

Griff roared and the glass shook, things fell, lots of little elf and goblin and gremlin faces peeked out of hiding spots and then snapped right back out of sight again.

“Oh, you know, on second thought, I’ll just leave leave. Um, real quick. I’ll go get my clothes and violin.”

She peeked up at him again. The wings had disappeared. But his typical I’m so exasperated with you, I could squash you expression was firmly locked in place, only now that she knew what he was—she laughed wildly in her own head—the expression looked far less annoyed and far more murderous than she’d realized before.

He just killed someone. Three feet away from you. Get out!

The body and the heads were gone. The elves and gremlins and goblins or whatever they were, were now out of their hidey holes, and all pretending to be frozen in different positions.

“Um . . . what happened to the body?”

“The portal absorbed it,” Lt. Birnbaum replied from the counter as if that was a perfectly rational thing to happen. She squinted at him, and he doffed his little hat. “The store—Ma’am, as it’s called here.”

“That’s enough, Michael,” Griff snapped, and she peered back up at him.

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