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“I set yours as Mozart’s Canon. It’s quite calming ,” Every answers just as his thumb clicks on the bright green button that means accept. Then he puts the call on speaker mode, a character quirk he adopted from his girlfriend.

“Papa?”

“Yes, my baby boy?”

Lily swoons at their wholesome relationship.

“Papa, did you know that there was a fire at the barn over here at Evera’s?”

“What do you think, buddy? Of course not,” his phone’s speaker vocalizes. Lily could practically hear his papa’s warm smile from all the way from Earth. Her pouty mouth droops into a frown, pissed, but mostly jealous of his affection and healthy relationship. “But you all are fine, right, or do I need to go there?”

“We’re all good.” Lily’s man smiles proudly, white teeth flashing so brightly she has to look away for a second, or she would be blinded.

“You’ve always been a nice kid, Every.”

“Why’d you say that?” Every asks, his face blank like Lily’s GPA back on Earth.

“I dunno, man. It just sounds like something the father character is supposed to say. Anyway, if that’s all, I’ve gotta go. Eva-Rhett is crying for me.”

Every pouts, totally bummed. His papa’s new kid is even named Eva-Rhett, after his own Everett.

Nah, that can’t be serious.

He sure nails the whole sad boy persona of a main character quite well, among all the other aspects of it. Except for the ‘clearing his throat and adjusting his sweats every other page’ part of it. Cuz he’s such a sweet, innocent vanilla guy and all.

CHAPTER 14: WHIMSY FAIRY NINE-NINE-NINE

“Wait, before you go, do you have an account?” Evera gestures to the pretty Lily-girl’s phone as she is hopping through the palace’s heavy wooden doors.

Every clicks his tongue. “Hey, don’t be hitting on my girlfriend, sister,” he says, pronouncing sister more like ‘sis-tah’.

“Yep. Whimsy Fairy Nine-Nine-Nine,” Lily answers anyway. She brings up her mobile, cracks covering the thin film because she’s a careless owner of her secondhand iPhone 5 and drops it all the time.

“You sound like a scammer.” Every snorts as his sister types in his girlfriend’s username on her mobile.



A day at the ice queen’s grand palace starts with the alarm clock buzzing into Lily’s ears, electronically signaling the start of a new day because the sun doesn't exactly do its job well over here. Then a meal consisting of some strange game Evera’s hunky alien huntsmen found in the wild is served in their room. Each morning, Lily would make the exact same face of disgust towards the wild boar meat.

At least that’s what she assumes it is.

For all she knows, it could be some slimy non-earth octopus meat like in the movies.

After that early morning facial exercise of frowning, she would silently and obediently eat breakfast with Every, who eats from the other side of the wide California-king bed he decided to claim as his own. Because that sure is a better choice than complaining loudly and starving to death.

How bland.

The day would go on slowly, with the two lazing in bed watching Rambo reruns until their asses are numb from sitting too long, and collecting calories from the different snacks provided by the housekeeping staff. All these benefits because Lily and her man are refugees, running from Fernando and his goons who are chasing them across the dimensions for no sane reason.

That, and the fact that Every had his time of the month for a big part of their visit, stuck in his alpha werewolf form thanks to the full moon shining against Darkindeep Ebonyngrey Wolfmane ridge-cliff way back on Earth. Bitch’s body makes no sense, really. He ended up curling on the bed, his form that of a permanent wolf, for a couple of days. Throughout his phase, which Lily found to be very peculiar but weirdly cute, she would softly pet him as he, now a wolf, nibbled on dog food while barking at Rambo.

Even wolves need entertainment to thrive.

Then bedtime.

Then rinse and repeat as a new day starts.

Up until today, when the ice queen with her icy heart just gets bored of her refugees and decides it is time for them to pack up and leave. And just like that, they are escorted to the detox and relaxation resort, basically just a nicer title for The Cave. Hence the scene of Lily walking out of the safety of the palace arms into the wild unknown at the beginning of this chapter.