Heart of a Minotaur by Cara Wylde EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Emily
“What do you think it’s like on the other side of this portal?” Keith asked.
It was difficult to understand him with the screwdriver gripped between his
teeth. I shrugged and realized for the first time that I hadn’t thought about it.
“I don’t know,” I admitted. I rested the piece that I had been trying to
disassemble on the floor and considered the question. “Cold.”
Keith blinked his clear blue eyes at me as though he was trying to decide
if I was kidding or stupid. He removed the screwdriver from his mouth with
his right hand and shook it at me. “Cold?” he repeated. “That’s all you have,
cold?” He scowled at me and started prying off another piece of the star
portal.
“Well, we got it off the minotaur ship,” I defended myself. “Our working
theory is that the other side of this portal must lead to their planet, right?”
“Obvs,” he replied, his voice impatient as he waited for my point. “Or at
least, it did until it hit status FUBAR.” He gestured around at the scattered
pieces and parts laying all over our workspace. Counters, tables, even the
floor contained haphazard bits, and an outsider might have wondered if
we’d ever get it back into one working piece.
We were professionals, even if our current state of disrepair might’ve
suggested otherwise. Along with the mess, there were thorough notes and
drawings depicting how it had been assembled before we tore into it. With
some luck, we’d be able to get it back into a working state. For now, we
were trying to understand how the thing worked. Then we could worry
about getting it working.
“The minotaurs are covered in hair,” I explained.
I hadn’t seen the aliens that we captured the star portal from, but I had
heard my crewmates discussing them. In fact, I had gone out of my way to
listen in on their conversations, trying to sate my own curiosity. The
discovery of aliens wasn’t an everyday occurrence, not even for a
technician on a classified outer-space secret research station. They were
aliens, not technically minotaurs, but everyone had begun to call them that,
since it was the closest thing to describe what they resembled.
“Their planet must be cold, or they wouldn’t have developed all that fur.”
I had thought it was a reasonable assumption, but I was beginning to regret
answering what seemed to be a hypothetical question.
Keith’s mouth dropped open. I wasn’t sure what I had said wrong, but I
could tell it was something. I was used to getting that reaction from people.
He started jabbing the screwdriver into a groove in the portal, trying to see
if there was anything inside. He shook his head at me.
“I guess,” he admitted, though he sounded like it frustrated him to
concede my point. “In any case, I’m glad I get to work on this thing while
it’s defective,” he continued after a moment. “
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