The Aro Shield
By Sage Collins
That cherubic face peeks over the cafe awning as I scrape the top off my cinnamon roll. “Incoming,” I say around a mouthful of cream-cheese icing goodness.
“He’s still trying?” Erin barely glances up from her macchiato. “You’d think that after months of shooting at you, he’d figure out he can’t pierce your armor.”
I shift my chair between the two of us, and the arrow bounces off my shoulder, harmlessly. “Now, he believes if he shoots people near me, they’ll fall in love and…take me with them, I guess?”
“Armed baby angels are famous for their critical thinking skills.”
Sage Collins is an asexual author of sci-fi and fantasy. By day, she is an aquatic toxicologist, keeping water safe from polluters, viruses, and supervillains; by night, she’s a supermoderator on Absolute Write Water Cooler’s forums, where she runs the weekly Flash Fiction Challenge.