Tuesday Tales - Pearl

Welcome to Tuesday Tales! This week's word prompt is “pearl”. We are back with my Sci-Fi story. 

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She found her favorite browser and then typed in the words “party laser lights for sale”. As the retail websites appeared on her screen, she clicked on each link to open them. 

Her eyes widened. This was engineering far past her librarian brain. She may have to reach out to her dad for help. How was she going to tell him why she wanted to tear apart the machine she just ordered for the units inside? 

She smiled to herself. She would tell him that she needed it for a Children’s Program at the library. Completely believable.

Bobo dragged a pearl white claw across the back of her hand to get her attention. Why he was still in cat form, she had no clue. “Again,” he hissed. “What are you searching for?”

“Wouldn’t you be more comfortable in your normal form?” she countered.

“No. Like this, I have these.” Suddenly, his uplifted paw had a full set of claws.

“That’s a good point.”

“Your pun is unfunny.”

Dani shrugged as she chuckled. After the night she had, she thought it would be years before she would laugh again. “These are the types of lasers that cut Grarkiel’s mercenaries in half. If I can mount them to something, I might be able to make a weapon to protect myself. And you.”

“I appreciate the fact that you want to protect me.” Bobo fluttered his cat eyes closed. When he reopened them, his head bumped the ceiling. Dani’s words must have put him at ease because he was back to his old self.

Dani added two of the packages to her cart. She reached into her purse, pulled out her credit card, and typed in the number and her address. Hopefully her landlord didn’t see the boxes arrive. She didn’t want the poor guy to think she was having a rager in her tiny apartment. “Anytime. What would my life be like without you? Now, let’s look at those archaeology books again. Something tells me we were getting close to the truth about the Vigvuth.”