Page 43 of My Date is a Polymorph
He touched her hands with his.“I feel so at peace right now.”
She chuckled.“Would you prefer war?I can do that.”
He laughed.“Yes, you can.Did you want to work out at a live range?”
“Can’t.No suit.”
“That can be arranged.”
“No.They are too expensive.My training suit was sold for six months of wound care.That shit is costly.”
He turned to her and said, “Funds aren’t a problem.I have been finding lost treasures since I was eleven.Most of them have a reward attached.I found coms, lost children, lost pets, vehicles, prisoners.You name it, and I would find it, as long as there was a price I wanted to collect.”
“Oh.So that is what the workshop is?”
“Found things.Yes.I found my great-grandmother’s jewellery when my mother hid it, hoping to smuggle it to Vaika.When her family rounded on her, she agreed to the division.She didn’t have a choice.”He chuckled.“That was the beginning of my career as a finder.The strength showed up later.”
She breathed in the scent of his hair.“Nice.Then you could move things to find them.”
“Yes.You activated early?”
“Yes.When I could walk, I took the form of a chubby little mermaid, but I didn’t know how gills worked, so I just learned to hold my breath for hours.The added blood flow in the tail helped.”
He turned in her arms.“You never mentioned your childhood.”
“It wasn’t much of one.When you are a child and can look like an adult, things get weird fast, so I kept my appearance to that of an early teen.Things still got creepy but less frequently.”She smiled.“I liked being a mermaid until I learned that no Hyreno actually looked like that.They swam much more slowly and didn’t have tails.So, I developed my werewolf.Then the troll, the pixie, the angel.I worked on them all and protected their forms.The werewolf and the mermaid were the only ones commonly known.”
Worro stroked her back.“Your family?”
“The new ones?They were great.They took me in and remained on the adoption rolls.Wellin came along, and I helped with him evenings and weekends.He did my homework with me and helped me get into the team trials.He was coaching my push-ups and wind sprints.”She chuckled.“He was my first dumbbell before I had passed enough trials to get into the gym.”
He held her.“What else?”
“My whole family saved up for my first combat suit.Aunts, uncles, Mom, Dad, even Wellin contributing his savings for it.I needed one that could shift with me, and that is expensive.”
“Yeah.Molecular instability is pricey.So, you have always had it rough.”
“No.I had an entire family of people who wanted me to succeed and wanted me safe.They were all around me when I was in hospital.The suit was the first thing to go because it was the most expensive.”She chuckled.“I can’t find money when I need it.”
“You can now.Just ask me, and I will find you whatever you need.”
She smiled.“When the time is right, I want another child.”
He nodded.“I am sure that if it is meant to be, it will be.”
Keera thought of the vial that Khytten had slipped her on the girls’ night.“Right, if it’s meant to be, it will be.”
He sighed.“I just want to hold you all night.”
“Then help me get the jewellery off because sleeping with the headpiece isn’t going to be fun.”
He chuckled.“Fine, but you are wearing it at the wedding next week.You also have to do a matron of honour speech.”
“Yeah, but that is next week.Public speaking never bothered me.”
He picked her up and carried her to the bed.He removed the headpiece, and she exhaled.“Fuck, that thing is heavy.”
He laughed.“Ladies used to wear that thing to court all the time.”
