~ Shards of Opal ~
Dracula wasn't paying very close attention to the kids as they played at the foot of his throne, but his ears perked up when he heard the following exchange.
"...and you can marry me when we're grown up," Five K said.
"No," Junior shot him down flatly. "I'm gonna marry Ruby."
"You can't marry Ruby! He's a fox!"
"Mama married a food, so I can marry a fox!"
Dracula sighed. The child certainly needed to be set straight about a few things that her parents had clearly neglected to explain to her.
"Come here, Helen."
Although he was the only one who ever called Junior by her proper name, the child recognized that she was being spoken to and immediately scrambled up into Dracula's lap.
"Has anyone ever told you how vampires are made?"
~oOo~