-Break-

  Location: Dónal’s office

  Φ Swinging on my chair, I say, “Today I was able to make those bastards work without throwing up. Look how far I have e, soon I will be able to tell them without feeling like I am going to die as well.”

  Putting my hands up as I swing on the chair, I say, “I am amazing.”

  But as I do this I start to fall bad scream, “NO!”

  Before I hit the floor I am stopped by something, and turning around I see Charles.

  “How are you here?”

  Pushing my chair back to normal, he says, “I snu.”

  “Again!”

  “Yes!”

  Moving over to him, I say, “I missed you too, but please don’t go around doing such dangerous things. A lot of people don’t really like me, and they might try to take such things out on you.”

  “I just wao tell you something.”

  “What is it.”

  Charles seems sort of jittery then he says, “Do the beastkin, and you’re position mean a lot to you?”

  “Why?”

  “I was just w, if you were given the choice to throw it all away, the beastkin, this pce, and run away somewhere to never be found. Would you?”

  I stop and calm down, then say, “I was alutting my head down, I never had anything to raise it for, no I never had the strength to raise it that’s why I always kept my head down and just tried to pick up the crumbs of happihat others dropped for me on the floor.

  But right now I don’t have to do that anymore, I hold my head up high. I find joy in being alive every day, and I have hope for the future. For years I was just a corpse walking whose only purpose was taking care of you, but now I finally feel like a person. The pce I am currently is the best I could have ever hoped for, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

  Charles puts his head down, and says, “I see.”

  “Ehh please don’t be sad, just so you know you’re life will always fit into mine no matter what.”

  “But aren’t I a dirty human?”

  Panig, I say, “No. but you’re special.”

  “But I am still a dirty human.”

  Falling to my knees, I say, “Charles, in all hoy, I don’t think you humans are really that dirty anymore. After seeing you all over these st few years, I ’t simply say you’re dirty anymore.”

  Charles grabs me and says, “Really!?”

  “Yes, yes, but this is a secret between you and me, no telling.”

  “No telling?”

  “No telling!”

  “I see.”

  “Now you should get back before soon, some of the spirits from Samhain might already be out.”

  Walking to the baly of the room, Charles says, “Dónal if you ever feel scared ao run, e towards me and I will protect you.”

  fused, I say, “OK?”

  “Bye Dónal, we will definitely meet again.”

  “Of course, Charles.”

  As Charles jumps down, I turn around and say, “That was strange, but it gave me some motivation.”

  -Break-

  Location: írassnd

  Walking through the fields with a smile on my face, I say, “Everything is just how it was back when I was just a worker. It seems my ma has e a long way, maybe one day they might put multiple pntations under me.”

  Beastkin in line, humans in line, no oo disrespect me, and Charles smiles a lot more. Dropping to my knees, I put my hands together and say, “THANK YOU DANU!”

  Getting up, I walk over to the beastkin who are w and to my misfortune, I see beating a human.

  I stop at the sight of this. Just like before this is how things were, and still, it makes sure humans stay in li is necessary and important, but why do I feel like I should stop this?

  Under my breath, I say, “Dammit.”

  Moving over to , I say, “Cease this at once.”

  looks at me with anger as if he is about to insult me, but he visibly swallows his pride and says, “For what reason? Because isn’t this simply what my job entails?”

  “You’re job entails following order, thought it wasted on one like you.”

  He grits his teeth, then says, “If I am to effectively do my job from now on I would o uand the reasoning behind this, so I better uand when and when not to dish out punishment.”

  “…”

  “Nothing to say? Well maybe it is because the reason behind this deay not be logical but emotional, maybe it is because you are a human lo-.”

  Stopping , I say, “This is an illogical deade from pure emotion. You see if you kill this human today due to your ressiveness, you will probably get a rather vengeful visitor from Samhain.

  And I don’t want ao have the displeasure of having to bury your piss and shit-stained body, I might be part rat but I also am a refined gentleman. So please restrain from stupidity, do you uand?”

  Some of the humans around giggle, which causes to get embarrassed and say, “I uand.” Then walks away.

  The human who was gettien looks at me and then says, “Thank you,” With a smile.

  So I smile back, and say, “It isn’t a big deal, you human.”

  As the human walks away I notice, that all the humans with the exception of a few are making smiling faces at me, and the few who aren’t are making worried faces.

  Normally I wouldn’t notice this, but the faces that aren’t smiling are all familiar to me because they are from Charles's campsite. They seem shaking uneasy in all hoy.

  Well to be ho if I had to see Nero all the damn time I would feel unease, but they also get to see Charles all the time. THOSE SELFISH BASTARDS!

  Φ With a rage so intehat I feel it c me, I say, “How dare he talk to me, that fug brat who only use his family name as prote. You’re nothing but useless trash who any of us could dispose of nothing but trash!”

  From my right, I hear, “Calm down .”

  Looking right, I see Ryan and say, “But you just saw what he did to me.”

  Moving close to my face, Ryan says, “I clearly did, and if you want to get revenge you better calm down and not act like an idiot.”

  I grit my teeth, so Ryan says, “Good, now just rest and rex, because the letter has already been pced on his desk. Only a few more hours till we flood the moat, and then we even mess with those humans he loves so much right after.”

  “You're right,” I say with a smile.

  -Break-

  A few hours ter

  Location: Campsite

  Φ As they all get back to the campsite, tless voices start to talk.

  “Today is the day.”

  “We are finally going to leave.”

  “I ’t believe this is happening.”

  “Don’t raise your spirits just yet, we will o be in stant motion from here on out.”

  “But we still have some time.”

  “We leave while they flood the moat, and when they e to get us for Samhain we are already gone.”

  “And they won’t chase after us straight away because of their fear of the spirits.”

  “We got this.”

  “I am going to see my home again.”

  “I finally eat when I want.”

  “We finally sleep when we want.”

  “We're going to make it, we are going to do this.”

  Looking over towards me, Sandra says, “Are you alright, you look down?”

  “Nothing it is just that I am feeling a little bit nervous.”

  “I know today is a big day, but don’t feel nervous you guys have worked really hard.”

  “No, it is not that, I just had a nightmare st night.”

  “A lot of us do, but don’t worry whe out of here no more will be had.”

  “Oh, it is not a bad thing. You see most of my nightmares till retly were about the days I had lost my people, but retly it has been about you guys instead. So it just made me realize that the hole I had in my heart has been filled, so I feel just a little bit nervous about this realization, I guess I am a bad son now.”

  Putting her baby in my hands, Sandra says, “We still care about each other and our inal families equally, so don’t worry about such things, especially sio Jupio you’re the hero who saved her from this hell.”

  “I see,” I say holding Jupio.

  “Hero?” Sandra says. Then she makes a loud noise as if she had thought of something.

  “Is something wrong?”

  “Hey since you three discovered the beastkin song, why don’t we re to the heroes' song, just like how we call uage the saviour's song.”

  “I guess that is fine, but why song? I thought it was called the tongue of the saviour.”

  “Well where I am from we usually learn nguage throw singing to our babies, so we call it the saviour song, hehe heroes' song.”

  I ugh a bit, and say, “How do you feel about this Jupio?”

  She makes a bright smile back, so I say, “Heroes song it is?”

  Looking at Jupio, I say, “Hey Sandra, would it be ok if we let Charles carry her during our escape.”

  “Why?”

  “Because if worst es to worst I am sure Charles will be fast enough to get away, and maybe if he has something to protect like Jupio he might be willing to break some of his lines.”

  After waiting for a moment, Sandra says, “I uand, but where is Charles?”

  “What do you mean, he should be here with everyone.”

  Looking around, I notice that Charles is o be found, but another person who is missing is Mariana. What, I am sure they were with us as we were leaving.

  “WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU TWO.”

  “Hey Nero,” I hear Statilia say.

  “What is it!”

  “Don’t be rude, I just wao tell you that Charles and Mariana told me earlier they went to go get that Omega oarently Charles knew you would pin if he told you.”

  “THAT IDIOT!”

  -Break-

  Location: Far east of the River Lúide, inside a nearby forest

  Φ In front of me, Charles sneezes, so I say, “Someone must be talking about you.”

  “I see, people really love me.”

  Patting his head, I say, “Well I do. Now please go get your owl so we leave.”

  “Ok,” Charles says right before he runs off.

  Sitting down, I say, “Well I better get fortable.”

  A little time passes, and from down words in the forest, I hear someone say, “What did you call me here from.”

  Instantly I am shocked into motion, but then I pletely go still. That voice was in the beastkin nguage.

  This is really bad, in all the years we have beehey have never one here, and now they are. This is really bad if they find us it might ruin our whole pn.

  But wasn’t that voice, Dónal’s?

  Φ Looking around, I see Ryan in front of me, and say, “Did I not just ask you a question, reply or is you’re brain too tiny to reply.”

  “Hey, what a horrible thing to say to someone who wrote you a note, just like a maiden I have asked you to meet with me, so I tell you my heart.”

  “Your jokes are as funny as you are beautiful, so get to the point or I will leave, we have a moat to flood.”

  “You see that, you’re big fug mouth is not something I deal with anymore, sht noutting ao it.”

  From my back, I feel an impact that brings me to my knees, and then looking I see , and from the forest, a bunch of other beastkin emerge.

  “What is this? Do you fools uand what will happen to you if you do anything to me?" I say while panig inside.

  Walking up to me Ryan kicks me in the face, then says, “Shut the hell up breastmilk, today is the st time you will ever take such a toh me. You see we wrote to Liam to e back quickly.

  So, when he arrives and finds that you’re dead, as a high-ranking official now he will do an iigation. But the fun part is that his iigation will rule you’re death a suicide, and your body will be right at the bottom of River Lúide.”

  Feelihroughout my body, I say, “You wouldn’t.”

  Kig me again, he says, “Did I say you could speak breastmilk?”

  Grabbing me by my head, he says, “Let’s go.”

  Φ Hearing everything that has just taken pce, I say, “What should I do?”