Page 44 of Culture and Curiosities
Ugh.
“You’re going to get me in trouble.” He was enjoying being naughty and it seemed like the giggly person was having fun too.
“As long as you don’t make me talk to you for thirty minutes to figure out what being Team Pony means, you’re fine.” The happy voice finally came around the corner and it was attached to a human-looking man who might’ve actually been human?
Or he might’ve been cosplaying one?
The locals were all weird but I pretended he was human as Daddy sent questioning feelings through the bond.
He didn’t think the guy was really human either.
Had weird mages come through the portal early enough to set up business already?
Chapter 12
Toman
Our people on Earth kept insisting that humans were only human…I had serious doubts about that fact.
Hmm.
“My mate? What is the word? I have serious doubts about that…”
It was not a word he normally used but I’d heard it from one of the dominant-acting mages.
“Oh, um, assertion?”
As an image of a book page came up with the word and definition, I knew that was correct.
“Thank you, my mate.”
He was proud of himself for being able to help, but his response was cut off as the man we were pretending was human smiled at us. “I don’t remember seeing you around town, but I don’t have anything for Team Pony members. You don’t seem to have enough of them around the area no matter how disappointed that made those old…men.”
He clearly didn’t think the other locals were human.
It was curious.
“Human-plus? I think that’s a good name for them.”
“Are most humans plus?”
That sentence was troubling but I didn’t have a better one without thinking too long.
“Not from where I’m from.”My mate sent what seemed to be a shrug through the bond without moving his body, which was a wonderful feat.“They were all just regular variety humans.”
“Then what are the locals?”
Social rules seemed to dictate I could not ask that question but I didn’t have another way of discovering the information.
“That’s a very good question, Daddy.”
He was quiet for a moment as he smiled at the store man. “I’m Team Binkie as long as that’s not oversharing? I’m not from around here. I’m from Texas and just visiting for a while.”
“Oh and I think you’d like the word ascertain better than discovering. It feels more like a Daddy word.”
As I read over the image he provided, I had to agree.
“Yes, that fits much better.”
