Page 98 of Tyton: The Spider and the Dragonfly
“Thanks Mrs Theron.”Sparx grinned and gave her a hug.
“When did you get here?”Callie asked.
“Just in time to stop you from making transphobic comments, apparently.”He rolled his eyes and plopped himself down uncomfortably close to Talia.Talia shoved him away.“Siku told me you were here.I ran into him on his date with that scientist.”
“Jenni?”Sesi blew on her tea.It was still too hot.
Sparx nodded.
“Wait,date?”I thought Siku was ace?
“Ace, not aro.”Sesi corrected.
“Oh.”Callie looked at Sparx.“Does Jenni know?Is she ace too?”
“What?Do you think I just have a list of everyone’s gender and sexuality stored on a file somewhere?”Sparx threw up his hands.Callie cocked an eyebrow.“Yeah, she is,” he muttered.“But it’s still rude to assume.”
“Wait, youdohave a list?”Callie said, a little too loudly.Now everyone’s attention was on Sparx.
“Not alistlist.More of a HashMap.With links.”Sparx sunk into the booth.
“How are you not the head of a criminal organisation?”Sesi sipped her tea.
“I don’tenjoystabbing people.At least notthatway.”Sparx flashed a salacious grin.
“Ew, Sparx.”Callie threw her empty cup at him.
“That’s all the talk I can handle about your dick, thanks.”Talia shoved Sparx out of the booth and stood.
“Where are you going?”Callie looked up at Talia, afraid she’d been offended.
“Home.”She held up the package.“To try on this… jumpy thing.”Talia leaned over to kiss Callie before leaving.
“She’s never been shopping before,” Sesi reminded Callie.
Sparx picked himself up off the floor and slid back into the booth.“No more penis jokes.”Callie pointed her finger.
“I’m not the one eliminating them from the planet.”Sparx held up his hands defensively.
“Neither are we,” Sesi insisted.“We just haven’t found any males that don’t carry the retrovirus.”Sesi pointed her cup at Sparx.“We just started looking.Maybe use that list of yours to help us.”
“HashMap.”Sparx corrected.
“Whatever,” Sesi grunted.
“Nobody is trying to kill all men, Sparx,” Callie tried to console him.
“I dunno.Talia might be.”Sesi finished her tea.
“Okay, nobody but Talia is trying to kill all men.”
“To be fair, they kinda deserve it.”Sesi added.
“You’re not helping!”Callie bumped her shoulder against Sesi’s.Sesi grinned.
“It’s just not the priority right now.We can’t just stall until we find an uninfected male.”Callie offered Sparx her most sympathetic look.
“And why are you doing this again?”Sparx asked.“Last I heard, we were fucking over Model 21 before we shut off the lights and went home.”
