Djinn Rummy (2012)
“Genies, of course, can’t stomach tea. The tannin does something drastic to the inexplicable tangle of chemical reactions that makes up their digestion. He grinned awkwardly.
‘I brought you some feathers,’ he mumbled, and thrust the bundle at her. She simpered.
‘Gosh,’ she said. ‘Aren’t they pretty? Let me put them in some water.’ She grabbed the feathers and fled into the kitchen, leaving Kiss to speculate as to what in hell’s name was going on.
Heatstroke? He hadn’t been anywhere hot. Malaria?... Genies don’t get malaria. A recent sharp bang on the head? No. Then what . . .?
Eliminate the impossible - ‘Impossible!’ he said aloud.
- and whatever remains, however improbable - ‘No way,’ he muttered. ‘Biological impossibility.’ - must be the truth . . .
‘Shit!’ he said.
And yet. Weirder things have been known. It’s a fact that human beings (and genies count as human for this purpose) can get attached to almost anything, with the possible exception of Death and lawyers.MoreLess
‘I brought you some feathers,’ he mumbled, and thrust the bundle at her. She simpered.
‘Gosh,’ she said. ‘Aren’t they pretty? Let me put them in some water.’ She grabbed the feathers and fled into the kitchen, leaving Kiss to speculate as to what in hell’s name was going on.
Heatstroke? He hadn’t been anywhere hot. Malaria?... Genies don’t get malaria. A recent sharp bang on the head? No. Then what . . .?
Eliminate the impossible - ‘Impossible!’ he said aloud.
- and whatever remains, however improbable - ‘No way,’ he muttered. ‘Biological impossibility.’ - must be the truth . . .
‘Shit!’ he said.
And yet. Weirder things have been known. It’s a fact that human beings (and genies count as human for this purpose) can get attached to almost anything, with the possible exception of Death and lawyers.MoreLess
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