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"But it's a nice cake, don't you think?" Alexis pleaded.I nodded and sucked my teeth. "I'll give this one to you, Alexis. But I get to choose the Christmas tree, and we are going to have snow on this part of the beach."He nodded and swooped in to kiss me happily.Alexis did not look the same as he had when we had first arrived. He wore jeans because they weren't as easily destroyed when he was working the farm. His hair was longer, falling over his shoulders. He would have chopped it all off had I not threatened to do the same. He kept it tied up and out of his way. A scarf protected his head instead of a hat, because he complained hats made his head itch. He was more brown than tan, and his curly hair was more gold than brown. His arms were harder and thicker as were his legs. He was a much thicker individual than the svelte Elder that had first attracted my attention. I loved the freckles that dotted his nose and his amber colored eyes that grew dark and light depending on his m
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When we finally slowed and collapsed in exhaustion, we stayed intertwined with him buried in my wet canal and my arms still holding him loosely against me."Will this make a baby?" he asked."No." He untangled himself and propped up on one elbow. "When? King is three years old. He should have a brother or sister.""He has a sister."Alexis looked embarrassed. "I know. But he has no sibling here. Shouldn't he have siblings to play with?"I rolled from beneath him and sat up, looking at him from over my shoulder. "You don't have babies just so that your kids have siblings."He sat up in bed. "Why? Kim, you know that I want more children."I gave him a long look. "Babe, I know. But…but we might die. We're at the mercy of the Neratomay! They already took one of my kids from me. I can't…" I turned away.I felt his hand and then his lips on my shoulder. "I'm sorry. I won't bring it up again."I turned and put my arms around him, resting my head against his shoulder. "I love you, A
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"Yeah, well, that's what I'm afraid of.""Oni is loyal to me, to all of us. What would life on this beach be without her?"He became thoughtful. "We could use some more help on the farm…"I smiled. "Let's talk to Oni about it."We dropped by Oni and Ran's house after dinner. While we watched King play with the baby chicks, we discussed the idea. Oni liked the idea and said she would help the spirits we called to understand and not be as confused as she had been.That night after putting King to bed, we tried it. I felt for the faint indicators that said there once had been something more…I can't put it into words. Inside of me felt like hollowed spots that should have been filled. I had been familiar with Oni when she had been nothing more than my Succubus, but I wasn't familiar with any of the other spirits that had animated me.I chose one of those empty spaces and called it awake, pulling it to me, cajoling it forward when it was reluctant and unsure. Finally, a black wispy su
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She didn't answer immediately but looked at me curiously. "No. That's all your own. I protect you. I protect our family.""I'm happy that you do. We're in agreement that we need to return to the world. But I don't know when that will happen."May heard us talking. "The Mother must know this answer. Maybe she has not told us all that she knows.""Do you think she wouldn't help us if she could?" I asked."I think she is cunning," May replied.I later asked Alexis if he had noticed that his spirits had specific traits or abilities. "I don't know," he replied earnestly. "Perhaps I should learn more about them.""Yeah," I said. "It's been months.""Well, the tall one can work longer than the rest. I have to remind him to stop for a rest and to take sustenance. He just wants it finished at once. I do appreciate him. There is one with the big head—do you know the one I speak of?""Babe, don't call him big head. It might hurt his feelings.""I don't call him that to his face, only b
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"You're a big boy now," I said. "You're old enough to understand more than you did when you were a three-year old, so we can tell you more things.""You know that I created a small portion of the Underworld," Alexis said, "and I made this place in the way I make Pop Tarts and dinner when Mama's too tired."King nodded."Where we live everyone is good," Alexis said. "But it's not like that in the Above. Some people want to fight each other."King frowned."Mama and I wanted to stop it from happening, but other people didn't agree with us," Alexis said. "So, they sent us here. And now we have to wait until they call us back.""Like a punishment?" King asked.I nodded. "Yes, like a punishment. But we weren't bad.""And they still punished you?" King asked."They sent us away so that we wouldn't stop them from what they want to do," Alexis said."What do they want to do, Papa?" King asked.Alexis' eyebrows gathered. "Now that's a longer story. You wanted to know why you couldn't
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Ran exploded.Not literally but figuratively. His eyes began to turn red and blood trailed from his nostrils to his lips. I wanted to end the experiment, but Ran refused to stop."So, you and Alexis are Golden and I am really a Neanderthal?" Ran asked with an angry frown.Oh my God. This was truly working! After all this time, these secrets could be revealed and no one's head needed to explode!"Ran," I said, "Alexis and I are Golden, but we were bitten by Neratomay, too."Oni dabbed the blood from Ran's lip."Mama?" King looked scared. "Uncle Ran's nose is bleeding."Ran shook his head and told a bald-face lie. "No worries, King. It doesn't hurt." He gave my son a shaky smile. "Hit me with your next secret."King looked at his father and me for assurance. "Is it okay?""King, what you're doing is very important," Alexis said. "But if you want to stop, you can stop."King looked at me, not wanting to disappoint but not liking how this was turning out for the two men he most c
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"No." I smiled. "In this small piece of the Underworld Papa and I look like human beings. But we're not human beings."King nodded. "Because human beings are living and you and Papa are un-living.""Right." I nodded. "Well, you know the stories that I asked you to tell Papa and Uncle Ran?"King slowly nodded."Don't worry," Alexis said. "You don't have to tell them anymore. But you spoke about the Neratomay and the Chosen." Alexis explained briefly about the difference and that we were Chosen and Uncle Ran was Neratomay."Vampires," I said simply.King nodded. "Okay." He had heard most of this years before."Okay, well, a Vampire doesn't eat food the way we do down here," I said. "Like Aunt Oni doesn't need food but she eats it anyway.""Yes," King said. "She eats other things."Alexis' eyebrows dipped. "Other things? What do you mean?"King shrugged. "I asked Uncle Ran why Aunt Oni doesn't eat, and he said she eats other things and then he ran away."I hid a smirk. Chicken.
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I did not want to return to that dark path again. It was dangerous. The Wraiths may have figured out a way to move us from the path. They were numerous, greedy, and cunning. "There is no path to follow leading to the Chosen, is there Oni?" My palms became wet."No," Oni said. "We won't need a path. We would enter directly to the Chosen's limbo."Alexis had paced nonstop throughout the discussion.I slipped into his arms, hoping to stop his distress. "The Chosen can't kill us here. It's like what you told me when we first started allowing King to travel to other realms with Oni. This is the one chance that we have to do anything like this, Alexis. The secret is important."He looked into my eyes and then nodded.~*~We all knew the importance and far-reaching implications of what we wanted to attempt. If it worked, it showed the power that King possessed. If it failed, then we still had a plan with holes in it.King was excited to explore a new world and to do it with us all.
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