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- Author: Rebecca M. Zornow
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Yaniqui (Yan-i-key)
New Washington, WI
Yaniqui dabbed scented oil on the inside bend of her arm like her
mother did for her when she was little. The dull calm of vanilla was
unfamiliar but the sharp scent of citrus made her think of ander fruit from
Wea Saa. After a moment, she awkwardly made two dabs along either side
of her neck like she saw Loera do with her perfume.
She fluffed her dark curls and assessed herself in the mirror. She had
stripped the loose tank top and khaki shorts she’d spent the day in. Loera
called the tan summer dress a cop-out when they bought it—it wasn’t
anywhere near showy enough for Loera’s standards—but Yaniqui liked it.
She wasn’t used to wearing skirts or dresses, but this one was easy to move
in and had giant pockets on either side of her hips. It came with a thin rope
one was supposed to tie around the waist, but Yaniqui threw that away the
moment she hung the new dress in her closet. She had had a decade of
wrapping extra fabric around her waist and she was done.
He would be there soon and she wanted to be ready. It was still
awkward with him. They got along, but it wasn’t as natural as it should be.
Yaniqui intended to make things right at dinner that night.
A stack of books littered the floor next to the tiny white couch. Pillows
lay rumpled across the bedspread from where she wrote in her journal that
morning. It hadn’t taken long to make the room feel like her own. Even if it
was in someone else’s house.
Yaniqui grabbed a thin wallet that housed her temporary ID from an end
table littered with pens and makeshift bookmarks of paper scraps and
wrappers. The wallet went in one pocket and a phone in the other. Yaniqui
got to the hallway before she tracked back and grabbed her journal from the
wrinkled bedspread. She shoved the journal under the couch.
A floorboard creaked and she straightened, tugging her dress into place.
Hloban put his hands on the lintel of the doorway and leaned into the
room but didn’t quite come into her space. He looked utterly comfortable in
a thin blue hoodie, zipped open to reveal the black T-shirt underneath. He
should be. It was his house.
“You look nice. Hey, did you consider the proposal Cortez’s office sent
over? They asked me when they could expect an answer.”
Yaniqui refused to let the first statement warm her cheeks.
“I started to read it. Um, yeah, it’s long.” She cleared her throat. “I don’t
know about becoming a healer for Earth. It seems…opportunistic.” Yaniqui
didn’t want to say she was nervous about the Earth government’s intentions.
She was nervous that once she started helping them they would want to
control her time and who she offered her services to. Besides, to Yaniqui at
least, her gift had a hint of kismet to it. There were so many people to heal
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