Disclaimer: I’m playing
with what is not mine, not profiting.
Thanks to Fridayangel for
betaing.
Set: Post FN (or Skin Game
if you prefer. No major spoilers.)
“Max – you’d know,” Zee –
the name her own idea – started it.
“Know what?” Max asked
suspiciously, tense as the two X-6s surrounded her. She’d been trying to head out of Command,
away from a day of juggling the needs of her people with what scant supplies
and resources they had. But the leader of a nation always had to be ready to
answer questions about anything, from a rumor about White’s current whereabouts
to one about a shipment of luxury items like waxing strips.
“Are Alec’s eyes green or
hazel?”
“-- I say hazel --“
“They’re green, Trin!”
Collecting herself from her
initial, frozen relief, Max rolled her eyes in a ‘this is so dumb’ gesture,
raising two hands straight up in front of the bickering girls.
“Both,” she said sharply.
“Both?”
“It depends on the light,”
Max smiled suddenly, remembering the green flash of the tomcat about to pounce
last night, and the hazel contentment she’d watched slowly opening in the light
of the morning after. “Believe me, I
know.”
“Yeah,” sighed Trin.
“’K, I’m done, gotta
blaze,” Max yelled, loud enough for all to hear, still smiling as she headed
out for her apartment, knowing who she’d find there.
- End -
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