Page 62 of Shadowing Bright
Sable grinned.“You are really talking to me like I am alive.”
“You are in a different body style, but you have an advancing consciousness.You are alive, you just don’t have a pulse and are harder to kidnap.”Krys smiled.“So, food?”
“Yeah.As much as you can load on one of those charms.”
Kris touched the cool hand.“It doesn’t just have to be one.I can make a few, and you can have one for desserts and one for mains and one for appetizers.Even hot versus cold.Or an entire charm full of street food.I don’t cook a lot, so this is going to be an easy assignment.”
“I can create the charms and then embed them into the stone.”A low voice spoke carefully from the shadows.A dark elf that looked like a younger, less impish Neekil.“What do you need?”
“You are Benko?”
He nodded and walked up to Sable, taking her hand in his.“You are talking about letting her taste food?”
“Well, she can upload the memory of the taste.How are your taste buds?”
He blinked.“Why?”
“Because she can taste through the charms.If you make them, I will prime them.”
“What do you need?”
She made a glowing disk.“What is the dark elf glyph for memory?”
He carved it into the disk, and she smiled.“That is what needs to be on the charms.They should be no larger than an inch and a half and easy to put in a pocket.They will be activated when there is something in the wearer’s mouth.”
Benko grinned.“So, if you are with your lover, you would take this out of your pocket.”
“If I were with my lover, I would have suffered some kind of head injury.I don’t date.”
Sable blinked.“Why not?”
Krys sighed.“For me to date, I have to ask permission of my clan leader, as I am too old for my call.So, I don’t really want to ask them, so I don’t date.It leaves me all kinds of time for planning weddings.I really enjoy them.”
Benko frowned.“What’s a call?”
“A sound that the females of the northern clans make that is designed to make ourselves known to compatible males across great distances.”
He nodded as if he understood.He kissed Sable’s cheek and said, “I will be right back.Please excuse me, miss.”
Krys nodded and said, “So, do you enjoy the gardens?”
“Yes, but there aren’t enough flowers.”
“I can fix that.I want to make a dozen different arbours here for couples to get quiet pictures and have a horticultural mage grow them into full bloom before each event.”
“Do some with bare vines that can be dusted with glittery and fresh flowers.”
“Will do.”She added them to the list, along with different coloured roses.
“What are you doing?”
“Well, in this business, when someone mentions something, you write it down as completely as you can and sort it out later.”
“My finger doesn’t register well on contact devices.”
“So?Use a stylus.”She popped the stylus out of her tablet and tapped the code for unlocking it, making notes in an app.“See?”
“Oh, can I get one of those?”
