-Break-

  Locatiokin dorms

  Walking through the dorms towards the exit, I am suddenly grabbed and put in a headlock by Ryan, who says, “Breast milk I was looking for you.”

  Standing still out ht I say, “What do you need Ryan?”

  “You see I have been w really hard, and it has been causio get blisters all over my feet, so I was just w if I could get paid leave.”

  With a shaky voice I say, “But if you go as well the amount of workers will be too little to help us hahe amount of sves.”

  “Stop being just a fucker, we already have a whole bunerarks, so just ask them to keep watch.”

  “What if they start rampaging and killing the sves? I won’t be able to deal with them.”

  “You’re the boss it is your job to deal with them, and I will only be going bae for Samhain. When the celebration at home are over I will e back to rex here at work because if I stayed home father would force me to help around.”

  With a shy head tilt, I say, “I am the boss, so don’t you have to follow my or-,”

  Ryan tightens his grip around my head, and says, “Hey I don’t want you getting big-headed you hear me breast milk? You might outrank me now, but that doesn’t mean shit!”

  As he tightens his grip around my neck, I fight back desperately trying to break out.

  “You pin but wasn’t it you who let a bunch of the guys take some days off three months ago? That wasn’t fair, just a huge show of favouritism. Then you eve Daniel and Finn go home as well.”

  As he says Daniel and Finn’s he wounds those two gave me while they vinced me if I should let them leave or not start to ache. Still desperately trying to get air, I mutter with as much strength as I muster, “Sorry.”

  Ryan breaks his grip and says, “Apology accepted. But boy you like to do some stupid things every now and then.”

  Looking away I give a nervous smile and ugh. But then Ryan takes my fad forces it in his dire, and as he does he smiles, then says, “But as your friend whenever I see you ag stupid I will be there to make sure you get over that stupidity.”

  Feeling Cheerful, I look down and say, “Thank you.”

  Ryan sps my back, and says, “No problem, just listen straight away ime.”

  As I walk towards the door, I hear Ryan shout, “He said we could all go home.”

  Turning around, I see that Ryan is standing in front of a crowd of beastkin; all the ones remaining oation.

  “Breast milk gave permission?”

  “Of course he did, now it is all on his head.”

  “Thanks, Ryan.”

  “No problem, but when you return bring some wine for me.”

  “You bet on it.”

  As they all walk away I think of saying something, of raising my voice but as I do I feel a grip even tighter than Ryan’s around my neck stopping me from uttering a single word.

  I had thought that maybe getting this position might have ged something in my life, but it never has. Every day is just the same, and now even though I and all this power my voice is still unimportant.

  But still, those words Ryan said to me are nice. Something that before I would have never heard, and at the very least just like Lugh’s words they will be enough for me.

  -Break-

  Location: Wonderbeast pens

  The pntation is split into twenty-five campsites, with around two hundred sves each. There are also one hundred and fifty beastkin to watch over all of them and about five hundred Merarks around as well.

  The Merarks are fast and strong enough to rip through about fifty average humans otlefield, but iate that these sves are in I would say one of them equals the average human male.

  Not to mention they fight well in the highest of mountains, to the lowest of rivers. A true beast which is great in almost every enviro, the only thing more adaptable than Merarks’ are the Tiritrexs’.

  So the Merarks would be able to keep them in check. But the issue I face is that the Merarks o be reigned in our they could go on a rampage and overkill the humans, and if by some misfortuhey killed some of Bricriu's favourites, it would be a catastrophe.

  It would bee a favour owed from one red branch family to another, I would beuch more of a failure than I ever was before, I might even be recalled home.

  Charles would be left aloh those two dirty is, I ’t let that happen. Wait, maybe this is the reason Bricriu even put me in charge of this so I owe his family something?

  This is bad!

  Suddenly one of the Merarks starts to make a rather cheerful noise.

  “I fot that these guys evehe crazy of my heartbeat.” Rubbing the Merarks head, I say, “You did this to calm me down, thank you.”

  Standing up, I say, “It might be a few days to Samhain, but I am sure I trol all of the sves by myself just watch me.”

  The Merarks let out a noise of happiness all around me.

  -Break-

  The day of Samhain

  Locatiore pin

  Φ Beside me I ask, Mariana, “Are we dreaming.”

  “I don’t think so.”

  “So what the hell is this!” In the area around us, is a rge number of humans a ridiculous amount. More so than I have ever seen in one pce, even more than on the day Bricriu es to dih us, and every single one of us are sitting around a giant pyre for Samhain.

  “Hey Nero, you old me it was going to be like this, and what’s that giant stack of wood for, I thought we each had to burn our pyres.”

  “I don’t know why it’s like this but all we do is just wait and see what going on.”

  “Maith thú.”

  Hearing a sound, I turn my head to Charles, and say, “Are you practising?”

  “Tá.”

  Mariana beside me says, “Looks like Charles might start surpassing you, Nero.”

  “I don’t want to hear that from the person whles to speak it, the most.”

  “Hey, I am still learning!”

  Location: On top of a cliff, he tre pin

  Φ “It seems everything is going well!”

  The answer I was able to find to keep everyone in check, is to simply move all of the pyres into one giant ohen gather all of the humans into one giant area then surround that area with an encirclement of Merarks.

  This breaks one of Bricriu's big rules; to not ever let all of the other campsites know about each other. He holds this rule so high that on his visits he makes sure, to hold different bas so that they are all never gathered together.

  But right now, I don’t have time for that, this is the only way I keep them all safe, and that’s by doing this.

  Pulling down my mask, I say, “I got to protect myself from the spirits.” Then taking a lit touch, I give it to the Merark beside me and direct it to throw it into the pyre over there.

  Locatiore pin

  Φ Suddenly as me and Mariana tio fight, the pyre gets set abze lighting up the dark area with a bright, warm, bze. It’s beautiful, yet frightens some, including me who is pletely caught off guard by its suddeion. This causes almost everyone who is near it to get up and move away.

  But there is an exception to this Mariana, who sits in the same spot staring at it, and from her mouth, I hear her mutter, “It’s beautiful, just like all the flowers bae.”

  Moving over to her, I say “Mariana what are you doing, we should probably back off from it.”

  Jumping up, she stands owo feet and says, “I o dance!”

  “What!?”

  “This feeling welling up inside of me, is the same as when I used to stare upon all the flowers and untrolble excitement.”

  “You ’t just start dang!”

  “Look around, have we seen any guards? It’s been weeks since we truly have seen aher than Dónal, so I don’t see the issue.”

  “That’s correct but.”

  Ign me, she runs forward, and begins to spin and spin, then stopping she cps her hands and tio dance.

  Mariana is still wearing the clothes she had on when she came, although they have grown more and more tattered with her stay, they are still rather intact. This bined with the falling embers, her smile, and her dang memorizes me, causio cp as well.

  Unbeknownst to Nero, his g caused Charles to start g beside him, and the se the three of them were making started to attract more and more attention from the people.

  Seeing Nero, g Mariana runs toward him, and grabs him saying, “Don’t just stand there join in.”

  “No way I ’t da is impossible.”

  Pulling him, towards her, she says, “Nothing is impossible.”

  Then with Nero’s hand interlog with her own, she starts to dah him. But theeps on her foot which causes him to freak, out and say, “Sorry!”

  “Don’t worry about it, everyone does it wheart. All you o do is rex and enjoy the moment with me, and I am sure you will be able to dance.”

  Together with Nero, Mariana leads and together they dance while the fire falls down. The tinuous dance causes a smile, to appear on Nero’s face as it does with Mariana as well.

  Seeing this Charles starts to cp harder and harder, and in the crowd behind him more and more cps start to appear.

  Then in the distance from the Merarks encirg everyone aing sound starts to emanate from all of them, and beside a Merark, Dónal says, “It seems the sound the humans are making are exg them.”

  As everyone tio cp them on Marias go of Nero, and runs towards the crowd grabbing the hands of people and pulling them over towards her, she says, “e on and dah us. It's way more fun if we do it together.”

  Mariana pulls and throws person after persohe fire and leads them all teag eae to dance beside her and Nero. And soon just like how the pyre was quickly set abze Mariana’s fervour quickly spread to a lot of others.

  But some sat out, with mean looks on their faces. One such of these people was a man named Edward a man who was not only involved in Charles's beatings but led the group.

  And in front of him to his dismay, Charles appeared and asked, “Do you want to dance.”

  Seeing Charles's face, images of his young daughter fshed in his mind, and he says, “Get the fuck away from me devil child.”

  “I see.”

  Even more angered he says, “You know I truly despise you. Here you are pying with your friends knowing full well if it wasn’t for you traitorous parents our home wouldn’t have fallen to the beastkin. All the members of our home of Wollend. So get out of my face before I beat you up!”

  “If you attacked me, Nero would beat you up again.”

  “You brat.”

  “I never uood you before because I never had a family. But now I do have three family members and I uand why you hate me, I uand what you had and how much it hurt to lose it. Yet I ’t do anything to fix that but I do this.”

  Grabbing his hand Charles pulls Edward towards the rest of the people. As Edward resists, he says, “How are you this strong!?”

  “I have always been.”

  “Let me go!”

  “No! I ever make you as happy as you were when you had a family, but I still allow you to have some happiness. So e and dah everyone.”

  Raising my fist, I prepare to hit him, but in that moment, I see his fad I see that the boy looks like he is about to cry. No matter how many times I have hit him over the years he never so much as shed a tear yet right now he looks like a child who is about to cry when his parents won’t show him attention.

  Pulling my fist back, I say, “What have I been doing?”

  “Good job Dad,” I hear from my left side.

  Turning my head to the left, I see something that’s almost see-through in the shape of my daughter, and as I lock eyes with it the spirit disappears.

  A smile appears on Edward's fad whilst he smiles he allows Charles to pull him towards everyone.

  Soon a rge amount of people are dang, and one woman grabs Mariana who says, “I guessed it could only be you who started it.”

  Seeing the woman who grabbed her, Mariana jumps and give her a hug while saying, “LOLA!”

  “I missed you, Mariana.”

  “Where have you been, I didn’t even know you were in this pntation.”

  “I didn’t know you were here either, I have barely seen anyone from our isnd here, so I was ed.”

  Seeing them hug, Nero says, “Is that the Lo whose Husband cheated on her with her mom.”

  Lo stops for a moment and says, “How do you know about that!?”

  Nero looks at Mariana, which causes Lo to look at Mariana, and this causes Mariana to go, “Teehee!”

  “MARIANA!”

  Grabbing Nero Mariana runs away from Lo and start to dan the crowd of people, and says, “Time to dance!”

  Samhain; a day when the worlds of the dead and the living are said to be the closest, and on that day the sves dahey chatted, they ughed and they cried, while the spirits of those they knew watch over them from afar.

  Upon his cliff, watg the sight of all of the humans dang Dónal could only say, “I guess is isn’t a word one could use to describe them.”