"You betrayed me," Flora said. "You betrayed me, Luke."

"Why don't you go and kill Clive yourself?" Luke demanded. "I've tried and I've failed, now you go and do it yourself."

"Fine!" Flora snapped, hoisting up her skirts and marching out. She found Clive in less than five minutes. "YOU!" she declared, jabbing a finger at him. "I CHALLENGE YOU!"

"You go prepare it," Clive said, waving a hand. "I need to go and talk to Marie."

Flora snarled. "Bastard."

Clive shrugged and patted her on the shoulder before walking away. "It all comes in my stride."

"!"

"What the hell is that noise?" Clive whined, covering his ears with a pillow. "I'm going to go deaf in a minute."

"Sounds like a vampire," Jupiter said, climbing to her feet. "Let me go see."

She peered out of the tent. Flora was running around screaming like a madman, brandishing something white in her hand. Jupiter kicked Flora in the stomach, sending the girl sprawling and plucked the pregnancy test from Flora's hand.

"Oh," Jupiter said. "Ohhhh." She looked over at Flora and both of them screamed in perfect unison.

"SHUT UP!" Wren yelled as she walked by, fingers in her ears. "I'M TRYING TO HAVE A NICE, RELAXING WALK!"

The screaming continued for five minutes until practically all the camp were standing around Flora and Jupiter. They stopped screaming when Descole stormed out.

"What is this madness?" he bellowed. "Jupiter. Explain!"

She handed him the pregnancy test. Descole snapped it in half without a second thought. "So the girl's pregnant," he said. "So what?"

"She's pregnant with a lycanthrope," Jupiter explained quickly.

"So she gives birth to another Clive," Descole deduced. "And? Is that really something to scream about? If you don't want the baby, kill it after it's born. Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do."

Clive smirked and disappeared into the crowd. Luke grabbed his sleeve and hauled him back. "What the hell is this about?" Luke hissed.

"Oh, I planned this very well, Triton," Clive said with pure malice. "Look at you. So clueless. When Flora gives birth to that hellchild, both of them die." Luke punched Clive in the face and made for a kick but Jupiter hauled him off.

"What do you think you're doing?" Jupiter snapped. "You won't lay a hand on him!"

"I'm going early, Jupiter," Clive said. "It's a shame I'll miss the death of Flora, hmm?"

Luke rammed backwards into Jupiter with enough force to dislodge her and he ran at Clive. The last thing the elder saw was the knife that had just been impaled through his chest.

"Luke..." He closed his eyes as the world went fuzzy. "Luke... Always r-remember... me... like I... used to be..."

And then he died.

So short.

So, so short.

But I need to get to the end.