(10-31-04 at 1:58 in the morning, I might add)
Now, boys and girls, before we get to reviews... I'd like to reccommend... Hm. No, can't reccommend that... Um... Let's see... Well then! I have no reccommendations appropriate for this space, so I'm just gonna say HAPPY HALLOWEEN! And I downloaded Manazashi no Aria and it's cool. :D Kinda funny for a Hiei song... But kinda... not. But kinda, yeah, it is. It's odd. Zigzag jiguzagu jiguzagu... And Ryuusei no Solitude is kinda Hiei-ish. Slow and quiet and puts me in mind of... Hm. Solitude. :shrug: What can I say? Now on to my 20-some reviews.
Oh, also, I just realized that "To The Feudal Era" has 226 reviews. My first fic with 200 and also my first fic with OVER 200! :dances: Thanks to all!
Ah yes there IS something... Go to my forum, to the 'fan fics' board, and vote in the poll I made on the topic of a Hiei/Shadow romance. Or tell me your opinion in a review...
Psychopathic Maniac Girl- Eh... Okay.
Hedi Dracona- Yelling is good for the soul.
MysticRaccoon- Avoid hurting yourself on account of my stories... Or if you DO hurt yourself, and you sue me, the most you're gonna get is an empty Dr. Pepper bottle or a deck of cards... Cuz that's all I have right now.
HanyouToni- And then there were none? I've heard o' that someplace. Dunno where. And I saw The Shining movies... Like, the old and new ones... I didn't really like it, I don't think. I don't remember.
kaida13- Well I see it's time for me to retreat to a small crevice in the wall of this cave I live in and hide from you... YOU COME NEAR ME AND I WILL BEAT YOU TO DEATH WITH THIS PLASTIC BOTTLE! What're those commercials about plastics...? They're so wonderful and whatnot (to beat psycho reviewers over the head with)...
C.C.C.- Kay.
Water-Rose- If I knew any big words, I'd tell you an extremely confusing psychological reason that little kids think they can cuss, but more or less it boils down to "They think it makes them macho." Know what else makes them think they're special? Little boys manage to scare girls four years older than them by attempting (or succeeding) to grope them. They think it's funny that "Hey look, this girl is twice my size, four years older than me, and the only thing keeping her from killing me is the law! Let's grope her!" I HATE KIDS!
Draikitha- Oh. Sickness is not good. I was sick but I got a two-second reprieve from my headache when Hiei was on Yu Yu Hakusho. I squealed, and then he vanished. :sob:
kiinu- If you put a url there, it didn't show up.
SEKAH- Well I can't draw Kurama, so... :shrug: Yay for torture, too.
DuoJagan- Sheepy... The sheep... Omoshiroi... (Interesting). Why is it people always have minions or giant mutant killer animals or small furry killer animals or... Y'know, I should start keeping track of how many people threaten me/mention minions of some sort... I have Doom Minions (there are many)...
LivingImpared- I have to get up at 6:30 for school... I hate school. A lot. It shall die.
Zephyr Minamino- Yeah, its' got some mild stuff, but not enough to make me cringe away and go "EEEEW!" It's actually kinda cute in that story... What? I didn't say that. ::Gets bludgeoned by Hiei::
UnicornGirl-DragonLady- I dunno if Stephen King books are good cuz I never managed to get through one all the way. I started reading The Dead Zone (I watch the show, so I got the book from the library), but then my mother read farther than me and didn't want me reading it cuz it had sex in it. O.o And I tried reading The Talisman but it was boring... Stephen King uses a whole crapload of detail. Sometimes that can be good, but sometimes it can be boring.
Carri- Your brother tries to spy on you in the shower?! EW!
Spatial Monkey- Heh heh. Wow...
Huyana Jaganshi- I can't remember if Youko's in this story anywhere else...
i love chees- I'm gathering opinions. It's a possibility.
insane- Your name fits you well... Like I just said, I'm gathering opinions, it's a possibility. But I'm not really a great romance author, you know.
alucard-2004- :stares: Don't worship the GROUND, worship ME! J/k, don't, please, it frightens me.
Mari Youma- Yelling is good for the soul, but not too great for the throat or ears... Especially when you yell in a small space and it echoes back at you. :D
Yayo- And I don't even have to try!
Shessha's Crazy- Riiiight... Giant... Baboons.
CHAPTER SIX
Shut up, Pancake Hog!
(I have CEREAL!)
They only slept a few hours that night because of a variety of reasons, one of them having nothing to do with Yusuke insisting on sleeping in the same room as Hiei and Shadow to make sure they didn't do anything 'questionable' as he said. Of course. Nothing at all to do with that.
Kurama managed to convince Yusuke that it was stupid to do that because death gets boring after the third or fourth time, but Shadow and Hiei ended up sleeping in the same room anyway, just completely on opposite sides from Yusuke.
Long after the other three had fallen asleep, Yusuke lay awake. He looked at Kurama. He was awake too. They had a conversation about how sleepovers seemed more like something teenage girls would do, to stay up late to talk about hot guys, and how world-saving warriors such as themselves had gone soft and how disturbing that was, before Hiei woke up and threw balls of aluminum foil at them until they shut up and went to sleep.
They were awakened the next day by loud, annoying kids parading down the stairs to the kitchen, intentionally taking a detour through the room the sleepover attendees were in.
"Shhh! They're still asleep," Keiji said loudly. He tiptoed around the room looking at them all, snickering when he saw Hiei. "Ha ha, he looks like a little baby."
Of course, at that, all the others came stampeding over, eager to see the threatening demon looking so... un-threatening...
"Yeah, he does..."
"Ha ha, he's not really all that scary after all!"
"I dare you to touch him, Hiro."
"What? Yeah right! You!"
"Itou will!"
"No I won't!"
"Sure you will!"
"No I won't!"
"SHHH!"
The kids froze and looked at Hiei as he stirred slightly. Then he innocently went back to sleeping.
"Phew... I thought we were DEAD!"
"Touch him, Itou!"
"You!"
"No, YOU!"
Nori grabbed Itou's hand and pulled him down in an attempt to make him touch Hiei but all he succeeded in doing was knocking his brother off-balance. The kid nearly fell on Hiei but was stopped by a mysterious force... Called Hiei.
"Don't. Touch. Me."
"He doesn't look like a baby anymore," Kotaro said nervously.
"Nope."
"RUN!"
The kids all turned and stampeded away. They got to the doorway before Itou's pleas reached their ears.
"DON'T HURT ME!!!"
Hiei was hanging onto the kid's wrist with two fingers, looking more curious than threatening as the kid cowered and trembled. He hadn't intended to kill the kid, and he hadn't even gotten to threaten him, but he was already cowering and trembling and pleading for his life... And wetting his pants.
"Gross. Get lost," Hiei said, letting go of his wrist. He fell over, looked up at Hiei, then scrambled back to his friends.
"YOU LET HIM GO!" Shadow screamed, jumping to her feet.
"Yeah. He wet himself."
"Ewww..."
With Shadow's outburst, the kids' attentions had been drawn to her and her skimpy pajamas.
"Nice..."
"GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE," she shouted, grabbing a blanket and snapping it at them until they left.
"Why do you dress like that, anyways?" Yusuke asked, looking Shadow over.
"Because I'm PROUD of my body!" Shadow said, striking a superhero pose. "No, I'm kidding. Does it matter if I dress like this? Nobody's gonna see me."
There was a pause before Kurama said, "We see you."
"You guys don't matter."
"... Thanks, Shadow. I feel loved," Yusuke said.
"Those kids saw you," Hiei pointed out.
"True... But it's not like I'm dressing like this for THEM..."
"You're not dressing like that for ANYONE... Are you?" Yusuke asked suspiciously.
"If it'll make you happy, I'll go change into extremely baggy, oversized clothes that don't show off any part of my body at all."
"No need, no need!" he said quickly. "It's just that I suspect you probably dress like that on a regular basis when only you and Hiei are in the house."
Shadow dropped down to sit on her blankets, sighing and balancing her pillow on her head like a hat.
"Why does it always come back to me?" Hiei asked pathetically.
"Because it's amusing to torment you," Yusuke said. "And it's mighty suspicious if you ask me."
"Nobody asked you, Yusuke. Leave them alone," Kurama said. "We already forced them to go to dinner together the other day, we can let it rest for a while."
"Shut up, Mister Nice!"
Kurama shrugged. "It's better than being Mister Obnoxious."
"Oh? You think I'm obnoxious?!"
"I never said that, but if that's how you interpret it..."
"That's what you MEANT, fox!"
"I'll say it again: If that's how you interpret it..."
"Stop denying it, Mister Nice Guy!"
"What kind of nice guy calls his friends obnoxious?" Kurama asked.
"YOU!"
Shadow sighed, throwing her pillow-hat on the floor. "I'm gonna go raid the kitchen. You coming with me?"
"Sure, whatever," Hiei replied. He got up and followed her, leaving Eclipse sleeping on the floor and Kurama and Yusuke arguing over... whatever it was they were arguing over...
Walking into the kitchen, before any of the cereal-eating children could say anything, Shadow warned them that if they said a word they'd spend the rest of their lives trying to pry their own feet out of their throats.
She then went through the cabinets and the fridge until she found ingredients for pancakes and made some for herself and Hiei. They were sitting down to eat when Eclipse walked in. She stood in the doorway looking at the plate Shadow was setting on the table in front of Hiei before saying pathetically, "... I want a pancake..."
"Too bad, Sloth," Shadow said, sitting down with her own breakfast. "I didn't make any for you because you weren't awake."
"You're mean."
"I shouldn't have to cook at your stupid sleepover anyhow! YOU'RE the host, you're supposed to serve us."
"I was ASLEEP!"
"WELL YOU SHOULD'VE WOKE UP!"
"YOU'RE RETARDED!"
"Shut up, I'm eating pancakes."
Eclipse fumed for a minute before stomping over and grabbing a bowl, glaring at Shadow for a second, grabbing a box of cereal, again glaring at Shadow, then pouring the cereal while glaring at Shadow. The cereal went all over the counter as Eclipse poured the entire box into her bowl. Once the box was empty, Eclipse glared at the mess she'd made, then at the box, cussed at it, then got a serving spoon and started shoveling the dry cereal into her mouth, glaring at Shadow all the while.
"Jeez. You'd think a person'd get tired of all that glaring," Shadow muttered to Hiei, eating her syrup-saturated pancakes peacefully.
"I know. She's gonna break my longest glare record..."
"I want some pancakes..." Yusuke whined, appearing in the doorway.
"TOO DAMN BAD, DAMMIT!" Shadow snapped, flinging a stick of butter at him. He ducked and it went sailing into the next room, landing on the floor with a semi-melted splat.
"Get mad... Jeesh."
"I WILL GET MAD, THANK YOU!"
Shadow fumed for a second more before taking a deep breath, sitting down, and continuing eating her pancakes like nothing had happened. Yusuke looked at her curiously, then glanced at Eclipse, who had continued stuffing her mouth full of cereal the entire time, still glaring at Shadow.
"What exactly happened that I missed while winning an argument against Kurama?"
"You actually WON an argument against Kurama?" Hiei said in disbelief.
"No, I just said 'whatever' and he heard 'Of course, Yusuke. You're right and I was wrong to ever argue with you,'" Kurama said, walking into the room. "He can't win poker against me, do you really think he could win something against me that involves intelligence?"
"True, but you cheat at poker."
"I do not! Youko does!"
"Sure, whatever Kurama."
"So what's on the agenda for today, Eclipse?" Yusuke asked in an attempt to draw her out of her glaring, cereal-eating daze.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Yusuke blinked, waiting for a response.
"How interesting," Hiei said, putting his plate in the sink and walking away. "She says she's first going to impale Shadow's head on a stick for not making her any pancakes, then she's going to shove a fork through your eye socket because you're annoying."
"What?! She didn't say any--"
Eclipse flung her spoon at Hiei. He caught it inches away from his eye and stared at it in a horrified sort of way before looking past it at Eclipse.
"Don't read my mind!" she snapped, pieces of cereal falling out of her mouth. Hiei made a disgusted face.
"Such manners..." Shadow muttered.
"YOU SHUT UP, PANCAKE HOG! I HAVE CEREAL!"
"I HAVE A FORK!"
"I HAD A SPOON, BUT I THREW IT AT YOUR BOYFRIEND!"
"I DON'T HAVE A BOYFRIEND!"
"I DON'T EITHER!"
"HA HA!"
"WHAT'RE YOU LAUGHING ABOUT? YOU JUST SAID YOU DON'T HAVE A BOYFRIEND!"
"But I have HIEI and he's all I need."
"What is with this...?" Yusuke muttered. "She yells at me when I say she looks like she's in love with Hiei, but then she says things like that that sound like she's, you know, well, in love."
"Love in an emotion foreign to both of us," Hiei said. "So we can't have any love between us."
"...So you just make out for the hell of it?"
Hiei sighed and walked away.
"What'd I say?"
Kurama just sighed and followed Hiei.
"What? What'd I say?" Yusuke turned to Shadow. "What'd I say?"
"Who knows..." Shadow, just to follow suit but for no particular reason otherwise, sighed and walked away.
Eclipse continued glaring in the direction Shadow had gone until Hiei came walking back and handed her her spoon.
"Here, you threw this at me."
Then he walked away again, leaving Eclipse to finish her cereal in a glaring sort of way. The ten-year-olds had sat through all this and were rather puzzled.
When Eclipse finished her cereal and dropped her bowl and spoon into the sink with a loud clatter, she walked into the living room to find Hiei and Yusuke playing bloody knuckles. Shadow was snoozing on the couch and Kurama was staring out the window, absentmindedly spinning a rose between his fingers.
She'd just sat down when Kurama stood abruptly and went to the front door.
"Huh?" Yusuke said, distracted for two seconds. Hiei hit him in the side of the head and got up.
"I win," he declared, then went to see what had caught Kurama's interest outside.
"That's not fair! You cheated!" Yusuke accused, chasing after him. Eclipse shrugged and went after them.
Outside, they discovered that Kuwabara had been what had caught Kurama's attention.
"Guys, I got a little lost," the boy said.
"You got lost and then what?" Hiei said. "You look like you've been through a paper shredder."
"First, I--"
"How interesting!!!" Hiei said, mock-cheerfully, clapping his hands together. "I didn't really care." He turned and walked back to the house.
"What's his problem?" Kuwabara asked.
"He doesn't like you, baka! You've known him how long and has he ever once been nice to you?" Yusuke said.
"Um... Let me think..."
"We don't have time for that. What happened to you?" Kurama said.
"First, I was attacked by a wild tiger at the zoo. After that, I was mugged as I left the hospital and the guy got away with my extra bandages. So I was at the hospital and had no idea how to get here, so I just started walking... I ended up getting chased by a pack of street dogs and I tripped and fell in a ditch, where I slept last night. When I woke up this morning, I headed in the direction I thought I'd heard Shadow's voice coming from yesterday and I ended up here. Am I at Eclipse's?"
"No, Kuwabara, you're at McDonald's," Yusuke said sarcastically. Kuwabara looked around, confused.
"Huh?"
"He's being sarcastic," Kurama informed the baka, secretly thinking, 'Why am I friends with this idiot again...?'
There was a shriek from inside.
"Dammit, those kids are harassing Shadow again..." Eclipse said, jogging back into the house. When she got inside, she saw that Shadow was not being touched in any way but was rather trying to fend off one of the kids, who was holding a kitten.
"Get it away! I hate cats!"
"Kitty!" Kuwabara went running across the room to the kid. He scared the little boy, who screamed, startling the cat. The cat hissed, scratched the kid's arms and Kuwabara's face until it got away and streaked across the room to Kurama, lunging up and sinking its claws through the fabric of his shirt and into his chest. He yelped, but the cat climbed up and stood on his shoulder.
"Stupid cat," Kurama muttered, looking at the holes in his shirt.
"It's evil! Evil, I tell you!" Shadow said, making a cross with her fingers. The cat gazed at her for a second before settling down to clean itself.
"Not on my shoulder, cat," Kurama said, grabbing the furball by the scruff of its neck and setting it on Yusuke's head.
"My hair! I just gelled it!" He took the cat and flung it at Hiei. It wailed and hit into Hiei's bare chest, clawing its way up onto his shoulder then jumping to the ground and tearing across the room in Shadow's general direction. She shrieked again and lunged out of the way, but the cat didn't go after her. It just went and jumped up into the windowsill and sat there cleaning itself.
"Ugly, horrid, stupid, evil creature!" Shadow growled. She glared at the cat, then blinked. "It is kinda cute though..."
"AGH! BAKA!" Hiei said. "You're so stupid!"
"Oh, I'm sorry! It hurt you! I should still hate it. Dumb cat! Ugly, stupid cat! I hate you! You hurt Hiei! How dare you?"
"It hurt me, too..." Kurama reminded her pathetically.
"And it messed up my hair," Yusuke said.
"It messed up Kuwabara's face, but you can't really make it much worse than it is," Hiei said.
"Okay, I feel a little pity for Kurama, but none for Yusuke or the baka."
"Your kindness is overwhelming," Yusuke said dryly.
"I know! Isn't it?" Shadow replied cheerfully.
"I was being sarcastic, Shadow."
"Well in that case, DAMN YOU!" Shadow pouted for a second before walking over to Hiei and looking at his scratches. "Bloody... Nice. Come along children, Shadow will nurse your wounds..."
"I don't think they're really all that bad," Kurama said.
"Shut up! I'm gonna nurse your freakin' wounds! Appreciate it, dammit!"
"Okay, okay..."
So while Shadow, still in her skimpy pajamas, went about nursing their 'fatal wounds,' Yusuke sat down and filled in Kuwabara on everything he'd missed. Eclipse yelled at the little kids and told them to go outside, play with their kitten, and get hit by a semi. They argued for a little bit until Shadow flipped out and told them her injured patients needed their rest so shut up.
An hour or so later, everybody was wearing normal clothes instead of pajamas or their jeans from the previous day, and they were sitting in a circle in the front lawn, discussing what to do next.
"We could play a game."
"We could sleep. Yes. Sleeping sounds good."
"No it doesn't, stupid!"
"... Does to me..."
"We could, uh... play kickball! Yeah!"
"There's always the possibility that we could sleep."
"Shut up, stupid! We're not sleeping!"
"Then we can meditate!"
"No!"
"There's always the option of sitting here arguing about what to do for the rest of the day," Hiei snapped. Everybody stared.
"Who votes for kickball?" Eclipse asked, raising her hand.
"Well, kickball or sleep or stay home and get harassed by little kids, I say kickball," Yusuke said, raising his hand. Kuwabara agreed.
"Three against... Three. Damn you!" Eclipse snapped. "Wait, Shadow doesn't count."
"Why not?!"
"Because, uh... You kissed Hiei yesterday. Yeah. That's it."
"That's not a legitimate reason, onna!"
"Shut up, it is at my party!"
"YOU'RE EVIL!"
"We're playing kickball!" Eclipse announced coldly. "Me, Yusuke, and baka versus unwilling demons and psychotic half-breed girl! YOU WILL LOSE, PANSIES!"
"I'm not a pansy," Hiei said. "If I'm forced to play this dumb game, you'll lose."
"What do you wanna bet?"
"TWENTY BUCKS!" Shadow said before Hiei could say anything.
"YOU'RE ON, LOSER!"
"YOU'RE THE LOSER!"
"WE'LL SEE!"
The girls glared for a second before Eclipse stomped off to get a kickball. She came back a minute later and led the way to a large field behind a neighbor's house.
"We're batting first," she said.
"Why do you call it batting? You're kicking," Shadow said.
"Shut the hell up!"
Eclipse and Shadow argued until Hiei stole the ball and flung it at Eclipse's head to shut her up. She ducked and it smacked Kuwabara in the face.
"Take that as a warning! Stop arguing, dammit!" Hiei snapped.
"Yes MA'AM!" Eclipse snapped. She then pointed out the bases, laid down the rules, and Kurama pitched the ball.
See?! Even world-saving heroes and demons can have fun, as long as they don't think too highly of themselves... Like, "Oh, kickball is for babies!" They're only sixteen, several hundred, and who-knows-how-old, after all, with super speed, spirit energy, and other odd abilities. But hey, they're just a bunch of normal kids as far as anyone else is concerned, right? So act the part, dammit!
"OUT!"
"What?! That's not out!"
"Yes it is! I told you that tree is out of bounds!"
"You did not, baka! You just made that up because we're winning!"
"I did not! Didn't I say that was out, Yusuke?"
"That's what I heard..."
Hiei's eye twitched. "Fox."
"Yes?" Kurama replied, stepping to Hiei's side.
"Hurt them, or I will."
Kurama walked out onto the field, hit Yusuke in the side of the head with a shoe (dunno where he got it, cuz he still had both his), walked over to Eclipse and pulled her hair, then walked back over to Hiei.
"Happy?"
"They're still standing."
"You said hurt them, not kill them!"
"They're cheating, though."
"Yes, but--"
"Can you tell I'm trying to be calm about this?"
"Yes, Hiei, you're doing a good job of controlling your anger. I commend you."
"Let someone else kick, Hiei! You're out!" Yusuke taunted.
Boom.
Next thing Yusuke knew, he was lying on the ground with a bloody nose.
"OW! THAT'S FIVE POINTS FOR ASSAULT ON THE PITCHER!"
"Five points won't save your butt."
"Damn you!"
Hiei shrugged and casually walked back to Kurama, whistling and spinning the ball on his fingertip.
"I'm content. You can kick," he said, sounding quite at peace as he tossed the ball to Kurama and walked back to stand in the shade of a nearby tree.
Shadow, meanwhile, had fallen asleep standing on second base.
"Sleeping on the field! Five points from your team to ours!" Yusuke said, annoyed with Hiei's assault and eager to take off points for whatever he could.
"That's just plain bad sportsmanship," Shadow snapped, throwing a dirt clod at him. "I wasn't asleep, I was studying the insides of my eyelids! Very diligently! Dammit!"
"Sure you were," Yuuske snapped, picking dirt out of his ear. "And I'm Harry Potter!"
"Really?"
"No, you idiot!"
"'Kay. Cuz I didn't see any resemblance, aside from the black hair..."
Yusuke groaned. "You're just plain retarded is all. Just retarded. I should take off points for your plain stupidity, but I'm nicer than that. It's something genetic, I think, and you can't help who your parents are."
Shadow scratched her head. "I don't even know who my parents are."
"How interesting, and mine are dead," Eclipse said.
"So're mine, but you don't see me crying over it," Shadow said.
"I'm not crying either."
"WHAT'RE YOU DOING, YOU'RE TALKING TO THE ENEMY!" Yusuke screamed at Eclipse. "STOPPIT!"
"YOU WERE!"
"SO? I'M PRIVILEGED!"
"SO AM I!"
"NOT WHEN I'M IN CHARGE!"
"WELL WHAT FOOL PUT YOU IN CHARGE?"
"ME!"
Kurama sighed and sat down. When they continued arguing, he dropped over backwards and lay in the grass, closing his eyes and dozing off. Hiei was sleeping lightly in the shade of a tree, and Shadow had gone back to snoozing while standing. Kuwabara gave up and started drawing in the fine dirt of the path between bases.
It took a good bit of time before Eclipse blinked and looked around. "They're all asleep," she stated plainly.
"They are, aren't they?" Yusuke agreed. Eclipse took a deep breath.
"WAKE THE HELL UP, YOU LAZY BUMS!!!"
Kurama and Hiei jumped. Shadow fell over, every muscle in her body suddenly deciding it would no longer work.
"I'M GOING HOME, DAMMIT!" she screamed, annoyed.
"I'm coming with you," Hiei said, getting up.
"What? Hey, you can't all just leave like that!" Eclipse complained.
"Yes we can! You woke me up abruptly without mentioning food! Damn you!" Shadow stomped in the direction of Eclipse's house. Hiei followed more placidly.
"But... But... You're so mean... Can you believe them? The nerve!"
Shadow managed to escape from the house in her leather without getting poked or touched or gawked at by ten-year-olds. She shot down the street, Hiei on the back of her bike hanging onto her for dear life. Eclipse glared at their retreating backs and cursed loud enough for half of Tokyo to hear.
"Eager to go home and be alone together, that's it," Yusuke decided. "Well we won't grant them that. Kurama! Go on, spy on them!"
"Me?! Why me?"
"You're the cunning fox, aren't you?"
"Yes, but I'm not a spy, I'm a--"
"Who cares?! Go after them!"
"You're stupid, Yusuke. I'm sorry, but it's true. You're genuinely retarded."
"And you smell like flowers, but you don't see me picking at you about it!"
"Because those flowers can easily be your death," Kurama said, narrowing his eyes slightly.
"Whatever! Go spy! Go! Get! On second thought, I'll come with you!"
"But... That leaves me with Kuwabara and a bunch of ten-year-olds!" Eclipse whined.
"No, I gotta go, cuz here comes Shizuru," Kuwabara said.
And so ended Eclipse's great sleepover... It was fun while it lasted... Maybe...
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I've lost track. Hopefully I posted the right chapter...