The Three C's of Genie Whispering by Nicole Eatough

Author:Nicole Eatough [Eatough, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781958209066
Publisher: Silver Spark Publishing

Chapter 6

Ali

Ocean slowly blinked his eyes open, and I sighed, dropping to the ground in a cross-legged position. I propped my elbows on my knees so I could cup my chin in my hands. “I guess it’s your turn to spout random nonsense.”

“What?”

Sighing, I shook my head. “Never mind. Whatever you want to say, lay it on me.” I couldn’t convince the genies to leave and I wasn’t willing to leave without them—for both their sakes and mine. “Oh! Unless you want to tell me how you and Light ended up here. I’d love to hear what made you decide to come.”

I was sure it was because Illan, Rajan, and I were late coming home, but I still wanted to know how the conversation around who would come get us went, since I would have expected Tavor to come first. Presumably, Tavor was waiting for us to arrive home any minute. I’d be on the lookout for him and give him an earlier warning than I’d given these two. With that in mind, I shifted position to keep one eye on Ocean and the others and one eye on the direction I expected Tavor to come from. Of course, since he was Tavor, he could come from any direction.

“Since you mention it, I have many things to say, Master.” Ocean moved to a kneeling position, his back as ramrod straight as Illan always sat. “We have not had an opportunity for a proper conversation with only the two of us.” His eyes darkened. “The others are always around, seeking to impose their views on you.”

I didn’t point out that the only “view” the others brought up was trying to convince me to add more than school and work to my life. I’d gotten enough lectures from wizards about how I was a misguided pawn of the genies. I didn’t want the same lecture from a genie.

Ocean cleared his throat. “You are in a rare position, holding so many genies, and that means you must be firm with them—with us.”

I tuned him out. Since I’d convinced him to join our little group by asking him to teach me about genies, I’d need to listen to him on this topic eventually, but none of the genies were in their right minds, or they’d be more concerned about the genie wizards throwing spells at them rather than acting like we were sitting around the apartment. For all I knew, they wouldn’t remember one word of our conversations tonight.

Instead, my mind turned to Thermodynamics, a class I was taking next semester. With my face and hands feeling like Illan had thrown a sheet of ice over them, heat seemed like a nice topic to delve into.

I’d tried convincing Rajan to get excited about it, because thermodynamics was the study of heat and its relationship to pressure, density, and work, but he refused to believe sitting through the lectures would be any more exciting than my Differential Equations class from last semester.

Maybe an experiment with

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