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“Nothing. I am tired of being half an adult. I am just going to take a seat and put my head down. You can leave me here if you have somewhere else to go. I am going to have a quiet tantrum that will look like a nap. There may be snoring involved.”
She walked over to one of the chairs and put her head down to fall asleep. It didn’t take long.
She smelled coffee, and it pulled her out of her dreams of rocks and grinding wheels. “How long was I out?”
“Ten minutes. Kai came to get us. She couldn’t wake you.” Reynaldo stroked her hair. “She didn’t know you are a coffee fiend.”
“You also pulled on the link.” She sat up, and her hands were shaking when she wrapped them around the coffee cup. He helped her steady the cup as she lifted it to her mouth. She slurped the coffee and lowered the cup back to the table.
“I did. Your output was... weird.”
She sipped the coffee again. “I was being chased on grinding wheels by big green rocks, and the only thing that would stop them was coffee, and my chip is useless.”
“We will set you up when we get home.”
“Thanks for the coffee.” She sipped again. “How long will His Majesty be?”
“About an hour. Did you want anything else?”
“Coffee is fine.”
He stroked her hair.
She finished her coffee.
He asked her, “Another?”
“Yes, please.”
He went back to the kiosk and spoke to the man quietly. They talked, and she closed her eyes as she swayed. The air was warm, the building was quiet, and she had nothing that she had to keep track of. She could rest.
Reynaldo came back with coffee and slid a pastry in front of her, and her nose twitched. She saw the pastry she had tried to buy. “Why did you get that?”
“He said you wanted it.”
“I wanted it when I could pay for it with the new toy. It was going to be fun. And then it didn’t work, so now I am pouting.” She pushed it away with her fingertips. She reached for the cup. “But I will take the coffee.”
He nodded and watched as she picked up the cup and took a sip. He picked up the pastry and took a bite. He nodded. “That’s really good.”
She nodded and sipped at her coffee. “It looked good.”
The jam-filled pastry was suddenly in front of her with the cherries and chocolate gleaming out of the puff pastry wrapping. Reynaldo just sat there and waited. She opened her mouth and leaned forward, taking a bite and pulling back, yanking it out of his grip. She caught the end of the pastry and chewed on her mouthful. “You are right; it is good.”
He grinned. “Greedy.”
“Yup.”
She washed the mouthful down with coffee and then bit the last of it. When the pastry and coffee were gone, she covered the yawn that emerged.
“Still sleepy?”
“Yup.”
He patted his thigh, and she got up and sat in his lap, letting him cuddle her as she made herself comfortable against his shoulder. “Don’t tell Syar I was mad about a pastry.”
“Why not?”
“He feels bad for forgetting things. Clothes and stuff. I have been taking care of myself for a while. Waiting for someone to remember what I need is irritating.”
