“I am not leaving Kindle Lou,” Falcon said and hugged her tightly. “I thought I already made that clear.”“So five,” Sora said and pointed to Falcon. “Is five okay, your highness?”Falcon stuck his tongue out at him.Kanisa shook her head. “If we want to give the people the power to vote and choose, then we give it to them all the way. They can appoint people to count.”“Someone may fake the numbers,” Conrad said.Kanisa sighed. “Well, I am not counting as many hundreds of thousands of votes.”“We are getting ahead of ourselves anyway,” Dawn said. “What if the people want a king?”“The people have never wanted a king,” Conrad said with Kindle Lou and Kindle Dee nodding.“This is the best we can do,” Kanisa said. “We propose the borders of the Provinces, the more the better. Seven or eight. We send the map with the announcement to all the major cities and villages in the town. Those that agree will hold the vote.”“And those that do not?” Conrad said.Kanisa pondered him.“Many people
“Ciel Karhillaz!”Wimer Aslix went down the hallway and pounded on Ciel Karhillaz’s bedroom door.“Ciel Karhillaz, you stupid, walking corpse, you open this door right this instant!”The door flew open. Wimer Aslix glared up at him. Ciel Karhillaz scrunched his face. Not always the best idea since his skin was no longer as pretty as it was when he was alive. The crinkles tended to stay until he could get to a mirror and flatten them out.What did he do now?“What did I do?” Ciel Karhillaz asked.Wimer Aslix lifted up his foot. A slightly, smelly glob of fleshy, green goo was stuck to his $400 Guccis.“How many times have I told you to pick up after yourself?”“Sorry, sorry, . Sometimes I don’t notice.”“Don’t notice. You don’t notice? You leave a fucking chunk of your body and you don’t notice?”Ciel Karhillaz shrugged. “It comes with being a zombie, I guess. Don’t worry, . I’ll clean it up.”There was loud knocking from the door next to Ciel Karhillaz’s.“Shut the hell up,” Bosy shou
Bosy risked a peek out his curtains. Finally the sun was setting. Summer sucked. Long, long hours of daylight. Yeah, he could go out in it if he had to, like in the morning or evening, and as long as he covered his whole body with SPF-5000 ForVAMPS sunscreen. But never in the afternoon.He paused at the door, located all the occupants in the apartment. The zombie was in the kitchen as always. Alta Presion was in his room. Wimer Aslix was alone. In the living room.Bosy glided there. He stood in the slightly darkened hallway and watched the back of Wimer Aslix’s head. That sweet, melt-in-your-mouth, hopefully-in-your-hand scent assailed his nose. Deep breath.Wimer Aslix heard him. Elf hearing was only second to vampire hearing.He smiled. “Bosy, glad you could join the world of the living.”“I told you, I don’t die when the sun comes up. It just burns my skin.”“I know,” he said and patted the couch next to him. “I’m just teasing.”Bosy sat across from him instead. That close and he m
The next morning, Francel Gumaka was about ready to kill them all. He hoped that by the time the moon was full in one week that sentiment changed. There was something fishy going on with the elf and the vampire. The faerie had insulted him more than once. Shit, the only one he could really stand was the zombie, and he was dead!Francel Gumaka, Wimer Aslix and Ciel Karhillaz sat in the living room. The TV was on, but none were paying attention to it.A key rattled in the lock. The door opened. And not like Alta opened it, but like it opened for him. Carefully, respectfully, like that damn faerie could even make wood and hinges fall in love with him. Alta slipped into the room, followed by three other faeries. All four of them had bright red hair. Alta wore green. Heracles Andra was in red, Hongki in yellow and Tegoshi in blue.To Francel Gumaka’s surprise, there were three human girls with them.“What the hell is this, Pixie?” Wimer Aslix demanded.Alta scoffed. “I’m not a pixie. I’m a
Not smart. Not smart. Not smart.Why the hell did he have to be so hungry all the time? The other zombies said that hunger was normal, but man, he had to eat a meal ten times a day.Francel hyung was out with that cat he had met. And Wimer Aslix wasn’t home. It was still a bit too light for Bosy to come out, but Ciel Karhillaz couldn't wait another hour or so. And Alta had laughed when Ciel Karhillaz had asked him to come with. And he’d refused to ask the fangirls like Alta told him too.Not smart.His stomach growled.Just to the market and back. The market and back.The beat carried his feet. He wore long sleeves and long pants and had thrown a hat on and sunglasses in hopes that the fangirls wouldn’t recognize him. The glasses kept slipping down his nose though.Only a few hundred more steps. He smelled the meat. He wanted to walk faster but, the faster he moved the better chance of his skin falling off. There was a reason why zombies lumbered.He stopped at the door of the market
Francel entered the blessedly quiet apartment at about seven the next morning. He sniffed, and then cringed when all other smells were overshadowed by the scent of a cat still lingering on his clothes. Still, he picked out all four of his roommates, though Bosy and Wimer’s were a bit mixed together.Curious, he walked down the hall. They were in Bosy’s room, both sleeping. He smelled fading adrenaline and … blood? No, not blood. It was sweeter than blood, but he couldn’t place it.He showered and washed twice. Athena was an amazing girl, but he really, really didn’t like smelling like a cat. After sliding on sweatpants, he went to the kitchen and started coffee. The faerie, looking amazing as always, came in only moments later.The werewolf looked good in the morning, Alta decided. He took care of his body anyway. Alta admired the muscles down his back and then on his side when he turned. Francel’s muscles might have been better than his.Nope. Nothing a werewolf had could ever be bet
After a moment of shock, Bosy asked, “What do you mean?”“If they want a song about us trying to get along, then we’ll do it our way. Write about what you just said.”“Make sure you put in the line ‘who’s afraid of the big bad wolf?’” Alta said.Francel glared at him. “And that Alta isn’t as perfect as he thinks he is.”“Little puppy.”“Bottom pixie.”Wimer added, “And the vampire wants to suck our blood.”“Just yours,” Alta said.Words started flowing through Bosy’s mind. He turned the papers around and tried to find a pencil. No place to put one when all you’re wearing is sweats.“Here.” Francel tossed him a pen.“I need a pencil,” he said but turned around and started writing papers against the wall.Wimer went to his room and grabbed a pencil from the desk. Everything was quiet as Bosy scribbled.Wimer suddenly realized that Ciel Karhillaz hadn’t said a word. “You okay, Ciel Karhillaz?”He jolted at the sudden attention, and then curled in on himself. “Yeah.”“Liar,” Wimer said. H
Bosy returned. “First, I want to play this for you guys so you know what it sounds like all the way through, though I’ll skip the rapping for now.”Ciel Karhillaz sat in his chair. Wimer Aslix sat in the other. Francel and Alta sat on the couch, once again with Alta’s feet up in Francel’s lap.Bosy played the song through, and then did it again, this time singing the words he’d written. Over the next few hours, the five of them practiced, changed words, and orders of singing, until Ciel Karhillaz broke off during his solo to yawn.It was one am.“Shit,” Francel said. “We should have been in bed hours ago.”“It’s alright, hyung,” Ciel Karhillaz said. “I like to sing, and we sound good.”They all exchanged glances and they all thought the same thing. Ciel Karhillaz was right. They sounded good. Silence fell and it was the first time not one of them felt animosity, irritation or disdain.“Well,” Francel said. He moved Alta’s legs and stood up. “Let’s get to bed. We need to get to the stu