Gemini Gambit by D Scott Johnson

Author:D Scott Johnson [Johnson, D Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780986396205
Publisher: Silver Spider Publishing
Published: 2015-02-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 38: Mike

When Kim only said a few words to him after they exited Bards, it made things feel, well, normal. He’d gotten used to her being strangely pensive. The silence as they drove wherever they were going let him soak up actual reality.

He was finally coming to accept that the outside was more real than his home. But there were unwelcome surprises. Uncontrolled weather was a nasty discovery. It was one thing to understand the equations that made a butterfly’s wings trigger a storm halfway around the world. It was another thing entirely to know he might be killed in a Virginia storm because a bug made a left turn in Tokyo. The real world randomly conspired to murder humans all the time, and they just called it weather.

The snow was melting. Water poured off every building around the parking lot. Not two nights ago, it’d been cold enough to freeze the rain before it hit the ground. Yes, realms could have weather, but there was always some sort of math behind it, something he could control if he wanted. Not out here.

“Is it always like this?”

“What do you mean?”

She wasn’t terrified of the unplanned chaos millions of tons of atmosphere swirling around a rock spinning at a thousand miles an hour created. None of them were.

“It’s not even noon yet and I don’t need a jacket. The temperature changes are quite dramatic, don’t you think?” It was so warm Mike rolled up his sleeves just to cool off. He marveled at the interplay of skin, muscle, and bone inside his arm. Nothing in realmspace prepared him for how many layers there were to a body. The way it all moved fascinated him when he gripped his fist tight.

Normally Kim would be growling at him by now.

“What? Did I say something wrong?”

She was staring at his arm, then coughed and turned away. “The weather’s crazy. Welcome to Virginia in late February.”

She put her coat in the car, then spread her arms wide. It was the first time he’d seen her in realspace wearing something other than a shapeless sweatshirt and baggy pants. The long-sleeved T-shirt clung to her in extremely distracting ways, especially when she breathed deep.

He stopped. Don’t stare; women hate it. He’d read that; it was all over their periodicals. Talk about what’s on the shirt; don’t stare at what’s in it. Fortunately, this time there was a word on the shirt. “What’s a Gryffindor?”

“Suddenly you don’t know how to search for anything?”

Great. Yet another mind-read fail. Now that he was outside and around one, the human male’s understanding of women was truly impressive. Being honest and angry seemed to get the best result. “No, I’m sick of getting yelled at when I try a search. I just wait until you deign to give me the information.”

“Until I deign? What the hell is that supposed to mean?”

Mike couldn’t take another fight this morning, so he folded. “Nothing, Kim. Why are we here?”

“When someone tells me to buy big guns, I take them seriously.

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