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"Okaaaay," I said, standing and gently handing the baby over to Winky, giving her crazy bug-eyes, trying to ask her silently how she was going to show this wackadoodle a baby head without actually showing her a baby head

Winky took the axe in her other hand, balancing the baby in her opposite arm "Okay, Bryn" She nodded her head at the looneybird "Brittney I’o ahead and start talking I’ll just be a few minutes And then I’ll be back With a baby head" Winky’s head was shaking in disbelief as she disappeared up the stairs, leavingher top leg up and down, her gaze roving around the roo the freaky silence, "telland looked atto tell you how to find hi where he is I’ how you know about him since you’ve been up here in this roos People tell s"

"What people"

"Sean The e of pride that was

"The minions?"

"That’s what Loco called the, since I ell, you know…"

"I’ about hastly sort of way, her face with a far-expression as she spoke "I was the Queen I was repopulating the earth"

"And Loco was the King?"

"That’s what he liked to say But I was going to pick another King One I liked better He just didn’t know it"

"Why did he let you keep all those weapons? Wasn’t he worried you’d … pick another king or whatever?"

"He never saw this place He thought I lived in the bathroom"

I frowned "He’d be pretty stupid to fall for that The toilets don’t work up there and neither does the water"

She shrugged, sain He fell for it He brought ave it to the dogs They stood belo every day waiting for theirher suitor

I had to nod and give her the respect she deserved She’d taken a more than crappy situation and found a way to survive Maybe that’s why she’d left her mind too Survival Could I have stayed present and sane after being raped and wooed by a cannibal named Loco? I felt a little sorry for her, then I still didn’t think I would have the sae to kill ht be coh all of that"

"Maybe I don’t know My brother helped"

"Where is he?" I had seen no signs of the kid in the family photo, but the faces downstairs were hard to picture as they had been The death one He left"

"Where’d he go?" I couldn’t believe a sibling would leave like that in the middle of all this

"He went to the barbecue"

I instantly felt sick to ain Oh, please don’t let this… that Loco ate your brother, are you?"

"No Not just Loco Everyone" She turned her head slowly and looked at me, dead in the eye, and said, "Everyone ate my brother Eh Vry One" Her h her nose, opened her ht in my face "EVERYONE!"

My hand rocketed out automatically, and slapped her hard Twice

Her face slashed first left and then right with the force of it She recovered quickly and was crying and screaed nails poised to ripout of reach I wanted to lay her out on her funeral bed withbetween Bodo and ht have liked ainst the world her only guidance It was pretty effective, since I had to focus sothe backward force to bring us to the wall I tensed myself for the impact and used the couple seconds she needed to recover to put her in a bear hug

I sla myself an instant headache in the process Blood poured out of her nose and ran down the front of her face to her neck The stains spread across the white of her dress, hideously gruesoet horrorto get away fro to bite h to sla her to the floor

I took a few seconds to wipe her saliva and blood off et into a position to do that I hated having to fight and hold back at the sa to kill you!" she yelled from the floor "You’ve ruined oing to kill me because I beat your ass"

"Why don’t you just finish it?" she said, now sounding depressed instead of angry "Take one of those guns in there and blow my head off I don’t care anymore"

"You can blow your own head off when I leave I want to knohere ed her withsorry for yourself"

She whipped her head up, grabbing ot up on her hands and knees, using et to her feet and steady herself She was facing ain, her head and shoulders stooped, bodily fluids dripping off her face "What do you not understand aboutYou were raped by a canner He ave birth to his demon child You’ve been stuck here in this hole for almost a year You have the worst life of anyone I’ve ever met"

"And? So?"

"And so what? Now you want to be a baby murderer? You want to kill onna blame you Give up The world sucks, anyway What do you care?"