The Girls Are Back In Town by J.S. Morin

Author:J.S. Morin [Morin, J. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-64355-106-7
Publisher: Magical Scrivener Press

Kubu lurked the corridors of the Errand of Mercy. Where once he’d been given free run of the ship, now there were places he wasn’t allowed. Most notably, he wasn’t supposed to go near Harmony’s quarters. She and her mom were off limits. After a long lecture from Esper about bad people and fake memories and frankly a lot of wizardy gibberish that Kubu nodded through, he’d been warned of very specific areas where he was not to show his furry self under any circumstances.

What if the ship was on fire? That was an exception.

What if there were pirates? A rescue was permissible.

It took several other clever exceptions before Esper had given up and just told him to stay away.

Taking her at the letter of her new law, Kubu now patrolled the edges of the region where his domain and the Forbidden Forgetful Friends Zone met, always remaining just this side of an intersection or not crossing that bulkhead.

He could smell them.

While he hadn’t known Karen well when she was still called Melody, Harmony had been a daily companion of his in the daycare back on Rigel IV. He missed her. Kubu missed plenty of the other kids, too, but they weren’t tantalizingly close right now.

Footsteps approached. A brief sniff identified the approaching Saliza without having to break his vigil on the corridors where he wasn’t welcome.

“Thought I might find you here,” Saliza said. “Esper mentioned you might be a problem.”

Kubu let out a long sigh. “I just want to say hi. What would that hurt?”

Saliza shrugged. “Not my call. But Esper says you’re no good with secrets.”

The whine that escaped him was involuntary. “She thinks I’m a baby. I can keep secrets. Ask me anything and watch me not tell you.”

“What’s your favorite food?” Saliza asked instantly.

“Lots!” A split-second later, Kubu hung his tail and his head. “That was a trick.”

“It’s not personal. You seem like a good person. Did Esper explain why it’s so important you don’t confuse Karen?”

Kubu lay down on the floor and pillowed his head on his front paws. “Yes.”

“So, you understand why seeing Harmony would be a bad idea.” Kubu was hardly opposing counsel. And while he purportedly could perform a trick or two, he didn’t have the rhetorical training of a wizard.

The canine looked up at her with baleful eyes. “One time, I tried to cook dinner. Without a food processor.”

“That’s nice,” Saliza replied, nodding along to placate him.

“It was going to be a stew with carrot and potatoes and bunnies.”

“Bunnies…”

“Yes. They are delicious, but I couldn’t convince everyone else, so I told them I would make them the yummiest bunnies. I worked all by myself and everyone seemed to not like the stew, even though they all said they did.”

“Well, sounds like bunnies weren’t to everyone’s taste,” Saliza said.

“But it wasn’t bunnies.”

Saliza’s wavering attention snapped back into place. “Huh? You just said it was.”

“No. I promised everyone a bunny stew. I told them they were eating bunnies. I even tried to make the stew with bunnies.

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