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- Authors: Alana Khan
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Theo
I shouldn’t need a five-minute internal debate just to get a cup of
coffee. I force myself to my feet and approach the stairs leading to the first
floor as though I’m marching into battle.
My office is the only one in the basement of the Jack Collins Accounting
Agency. When the HR director, Phoebe Grant, escorted me to it on my first
day at work, she explained that because of my size, they had built this just
for me.
“No trouble,” she’d said with a forced smile. “We were happy to do it.” She
flung her arm toward a door near the stairwell as she proudly announced,
“We even built you a private bathroom that will be more… minotaur-sized.
Roomy.”
At some point during my second week in my new position, a small cart
appeared with a coffeemaker and a dorm-sized fridge filled with five
flavors of creamer. A hand-written Post-it was stuck to the coffeepot’s glass
carafe that simply said, “Enjoy!”
I’ve thought of this as my home away from home for the two years I’ve
worked here. I must admit, I never feel comfortable around my human
colleagues. My supervisor even encouraged me to Zoom to meetings, even
though they’re held on the second floor of this very building. After a while,
whenever I was in meetings with them, they stopped asking everyone to
turn their cameras on, even though the company handbook requires it.
I arrive early and stay a bit late, finding this schedule allows me to avoid
most of my co-workers. I’ve been happy to stay in my slightly mustysmelling office in the basement and do my accounting from here.
Realizing I’ve been standing at the foot of the stairwell for several minutes,
I square my shoulders and climb the stairs.
During our last interdepartmental Zoom call, Bob Argyle from auditing
mentioned how much he appreciated the new coffeemaker on the first floor.
“I’m telling you, boss, those Hellagood Stiff-Brew pods are the best thing
since sliced bread.”
I wouldn’t exactly call myself a coffee aficionado, but I love a good, stiff
cup of coffee. It’s for this reason I’m ascending the steps as though in
search of the Holy Grail.
The Others, as my kind are called, fell to Earths twenty-five years ago. To
this day, no one knows exactly how or why we got here. Minotaurs, orcs,
nagas, wolven, and more just thumped onto the sands of the Mojave one
day.
They were all rounded up and confined to a place called the Integration
Zone on the outskirts of Los Angeles. All the Others were confined there—
except me and my brother, Alphonse.
Both of us were less than one month old at the time. Although it was clear
from the start that we weren’t related, which DNA tests later confirmed, my
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