Love for the Cold-Blooded, or The Part-Time Evil Minion's Gui... by Alex Gabriel

Love for the Cold-Blooded, or The Part-Time Evil Minion

Whatever.)Īha - score! Velvet pioppini mushrooms. What could you expect from a being when the closest thing it had to a parent liked to dress up in quantum armor and fly about being all self-righteous and heroic? That kind of thing was bound to scar a person. Pat supposed he couldn’t blame the mansion’s virtual manager for being a judgy wanker. For all that it was quiet, the throbbing was pretty annoying, and also managed to convey an astounding level of judgment.

It continued to fill the room with the soft throbbing sound that signaled an urgent task awaited doing, and someone had better get on it double-quick. The AI ignored him, which was not surprising because it couldn’t hear him. And by the way, dude, Andersen has no taste.

Delivery is to take place fifteen minutes after the order. Andersen has requested a pizza with velvet pioppini mushrooms, chorizo, parma ham, smoked duck, and an extra portion of aged gouda cheese. To judge by the contents of the mushroom drawer in Nicholas Andersen’s (aka Silver Paladin’s) industrial-sized stasis fresher, mushrooms were a science unto themselves. But when it came to mushrooms on pizza, the choice was pretty binary: take ‘em or leave ‘em. Well… obviously not when you were wondering whether to dry and smoke it, or to simmer it in a nice cognac sauce. Personally, Pat had always kinda felt that a mushroom was a mushroom was a mushroom. Pat had never even heard of those before, but apparently they were actually a thing, rather than the off-color joke they sounded like. The Part-Time Evil Minion’s Guide to Accidentally Dating a Superhero.īe confident as you stride towards your ultimate destiny.Į verything started with mushrooms.

Love for the Cold-Blooded, or The Part-Time Evil Minion's Gui... by Alex Gabriel