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“Would you ever come to the palace and make a meal for Vecchin and Yvetha?”
“Are you sure that I can make more than one thing?”
He laughed. “I am willing to take my chances. The result will be interesting at any rate.”
“It would, but I would require transport there and back on the same day.”
“I believe that could be arranged.”
She snorted and looked toward the dwindling crowd at the end of the dock. She checked the time and looked at Sunny. “Ten minutes and then we close it up.”
“Got it. Is this place always this entertaining?” Sunny grinned.
“Nope. Usually, the most exciting thing that happens is that we get some bitter greens and hear about it for an hour.” She chuckled. “That was a fun day.”
He laughed, and they finished their work and started cleaning up. It was tricky, since they had to go around the parents and son and two guardians sitting at the tables.
She made some shaved fruit for Morsek and Arkon. Hazor tracked her with his gaze and looked at her with weirdly puppy-dog eyes for someone with black sclera.
She paused and looked at his parents. “You as well?”
Hazor answered, “Yes.”
She shrugged, grabbed three more, and then dumped the blades into the sanitizer while discarding the last of the frozen fruit.
She delivered the three ices and headed back to the stall, running through the morning prep with Sunny and grinning. “You are enjoying yourself.”
“Well, I am making more than Dad in a day, so that doesn’t hurt.”
She smiled. “I am giving you a third of my half.”
He blinked. “Seriously?”
“Yeah. The overhead is covered by the end of breakfast, and after that, each meal price is getting divided between me and Emgoth. I am giving you a third of mine, and he needs his half for recovery.”
“Wow. That is generous of you.”
“He does most of the paperwork for licences and stuff. I do the accounting and the product testing.”
“And you chat with vendors and work out best cuts and best prices.”
She blushed. “How do you know that?”
“I chatted with the delivery guys when they had a meal before returning to the job.” They finished up and triggered the sterilizing cycle. She had armloads of her clothing from earlier, still damp. “Well, I am doing laundry tonight.”
He laughed. “Right. Come on, sis. I will walk you to the transport.”
She nodded and folded her salty clothing into a wad. “So very adventurous day.”
He laughed, and she locked the unit to run the sterilization cycle on all exposed surfaces.
She was going to have a good night until she was blocked by Hazor and his mother and father. “Oh, hey. I was just going to run home and put this stuff in the wash. Then catch up on some bookkeeping, and...”
Hazor wrapped an arm around her, checked his wrist, and said, “See you, Sunny.”
Sunny laughed as Hazor held her and gained altitude before angling toward her neighbourhood and flying in the direction of her apartment.
She was glad she didn’t have a problem with heights, but then she realized there were a lot of people on the street, and he was going to land in front of her place. Cloudy winced as he gracefully settled and smiled. “Which entrance is yours?”
