Page 49 of Culture and Curiosities
Pierce probably had questions about that too, but I’d been good at avoiding him for the past couple of days, so I wasn’t sure about it. “We’ve already agreed on the need to make sure the gate is monitored at all times. We’ve agreed on a combination ofremote and in-person monitoring. We’ve actually made a lot of progress.”
“Klynn and I both agree that progress has been made and monitoring would be necessary.”
Daddy was firm about that because Klynn almost had to out himself to keep a couple of teenagers from going through the portal.
The cranky dragon had not been happy about that…and neither had Daddy.
“So next we need to start by making a few more basic decisions and then we can go from there.” Pierce paused but no one was stupid enough to argue with him. “From my perspective, I think the first decision we vote on this time is if we’re going to ask a mixed group of volunteers to go through the portal.”
Now we were getting to the good stuff.
The grumpy dragon, Boyd, who was in charge of the locals on the council decided to throw a wrench in the progress. “Another important decision we need to make is if we’re telling the US government what’s happening.”
“The looks are confusion, my mate? Why? Isn’t that reasonable?”
Nothing anyone did around here was reasonable.
Boyd would agree with both of us based on how he rolled his eyes and seemed to think they were idiots. “We’re not our own country no matter what some people seem to believe. We could end up bringing anything from aliens to dinosaurs through that portal. Is that really something we want to surprise people with?”
Boyd paused before rolling his eyes again when they didn’t seem to understand the gravity of the situation. “What would your mothers do if you brought home a fucking dinosaur without warning her?”
“Oh.”
Best. Town. Ever.
They’d even done it in unison.
I was doing great at behaving myself, even ignoring thegreat ancestors abovecomment from Daddy, when Kenzie leaned in close to Merritt. “Do you know a spell that would make a light bulb go off over their heads when they do thatohthing?”
Yes!
“No.”
Kenzie’s Daddy was a party pooper, though, and his look made Kenzie sigh. “Never mind.”
“Now, let’s start at the beginning and see what kind of progress we can make before we break for lunch and you all tell everyone that we’ve done nothing but play pretend all day.” Pierce’s glare made me think that was personal because it was the same look he gave some of our relatives when they drove him nuts.
Yep.
One of the Canadian men huffed. “The men at the diner got me. It’s not my fault.”
I loved the diner just as much as I loved the rest of the town…possibly even more.
“It’s understandable.” Pierce must’ve been practicing being nice because he should’ve called Canada guy out. “At least we know it’s an efficient system for distributing information.”
“And we’ll know everyone’s opinions on our decisions by breakfast.” One of the other dragons I hadn’t met shook his head. “If they think we’ve made the wrong decision, we’ll hear about it soon.”
Pierce took that as his cue to keep us moving. “Alright, do we have any logical questions or topics of discussion about the first vote to send a group through the portal?”
Way too many people looked excited for that opening, causing Boyd to glare at them. “He said logical questions. Don’t ask anything stupid.”
“I don’t think that’s a reasonable order, my mate.”
Oops.
Laughing had not been the right reaction to either of them.
Meetings were hard but at least I still had two more coloring pages.
