Page 70 of Culture and Curiosities
“Thank you, Daddy.”
The Canada man was stubborn as well and continued to glare at Wren, but the man from Florida who made everyone roll their eyes was more curious than stubborn. “I have a question.”
Wren was very pleased with the direction the meeting was taking.
“This is going to be fun.”
Because the man was odd or because we were finally going to discuss something helpful?
“Yes?” Pierce looked bored but Wren’s mental chatter disagreed with his presentation. “Did you have a question about the plan before we started?”
“Yes. Um. Kind of.” The man with the confusing name frowned and didn’t back down. “I don’t mean to be rude this time, but it seems like you’ve decided you’re going through the portal. So…what do you actually do and why are you taking toys through?”
Did he understand he’d been rude other times?
It seemed like a development the diner men should be made aware of.
My Wren seemed to decide he liked the strange dinosaur man better than the mage from Canada because he smiled widely. “I’m a little and I’m the only wilderness and survival expert the council was able to find. For some reason, even dragons don’t seem to like roughing it, but we do like toys.”
And crayons.
Were crayons toys?
Laughter came from many around the room, but the dragon Kenzie nodded seriously. “Even my dragon likes pillows and toys. I think roughing it is a human quality. No offense.”
My mate frowned but his brain took off in a new direction as he processed the interesting dragon’s opinion. “None taken. I learned from a human, so you might be right. He was my first crush, so I had to do a good job.”
Yes, I could see why he found the man to be attractive, but my favorite part was his giggles as he made Pierce’s face scrunch up. “Don’t tell your mother that.”
Wren’s grin did not match the wicked thoughts in his head. “That’s why she tried to send me to thatbehave yourselfcamp.”
No.
There was nothing wrong with my mate.
Pierce didn’t seem pleased with that reminder and glared as he turned back to the man from Florida. “He’s actually an expert in his field and the best choice unless we want to bring in a full human.”
“Ha. I knew they’d hate that idea.”
“My mate, were you shocking them into accepting any behavior you performed?”
I wasn’t happy with the wording, but Wren’s mental giggle said I’d made my point.
Debate went on around us as he did his best to justify and distract me from pointing out his bad behavior. It was easy to ignore most of what was going on around us as they started to talk about who should go through the portal.
But we both shifted our attention when Pierce brought the conversation back to us. “As you can see, the council group has expanded to include Wren’s new mate. They met recently and he’s also here about the portal.”
“Bingo. Time for fun.”
Thankfully it was one of the polite Canadians who spoke up to prompt the right conversation. “I don’t remember where he’s from.”
Wren laughed through the bond again when a man from the place called Scotland would not be left out. “Or his name? He was at that weird birthday party wedding thing. I remember that.”
“Who’s going to guess first?”
Wren’s delight filled my head as looks were exchanged around the room.
“Well, fuck.” Wren’s surprise made me laugh as the strange man from Florida spoke up first to show he understood where I was from.
