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2. "Yeah, I didn't sleep at all last night." Yawned Roger. His exhale became a swirling cloud in the cold that gently dispersed as he walked through. "It was like, every cop car in town was driving by my house last night."

3.

1. "Was it the rabbit lady?" Frank eyed the furniture store, worry plastered across his face. "Did she rat us out?"

5.

1. The signal to cross lit up, and Billy shoved his two friends forward into the street. "No. Come on, we can't be late."

7.

1. Frank stopped in the middle of the road and looked over his shoulder, seeing nothing but a wall of fog and the sidewalk he left.

2. "Is she blackmailing you? Is that why you're in a hurry to get to her?" Roger asked Billy

10.

1. "No, I'm repaying her." Billy grunted, waving his friend on. "...with your help."

12.

1. "So she is blackmailing us." Frank pulled at his dreadlocks, chuckling nervously. "She's hopping mad!"

14.

1. A truck honked as the frost-glazed crossing light started to flicker. The highschoolers hastily traversed King's Highway, and then Main Street onto the sidewalk from the rotary that led to their destination. The Episcopal church was no longer visible, blocked by a thick wall of fog.

16.

1. "I think Frank's got a point." Roger rubbed his baggy right eye. "By holding our team captain hostage, we have no choice but to help."

18.

1. "I'm not a hostage." The blonde whirled around to glare at his friends, his gold-haired unibrow scrunched in a scold. Roger and Frank stepped back, Roger mumbling "Fuck, why so angry?"

20.

1. The team captain stopped and took a deep breath and rubbed his head. "I'll be clear. I just want to get on good terms with her, alright?"

22.

1. "Alright man, glad you're being transparent." Frank said, thinking he had a funny pun.

24.

1. "What if we don't like what she asks?" Roger asked.

26.

1. "I won't make you guys do it, then." Billy replied.

28.

1. "What if that's her plan?" Frank eyed a starling as it perched on an overhung gutter. "Give us impossible tasks, and then she'll keep you forever? You know what that is?"

30.

1. His two friends paused to look at him.

32.

1. "A hare-brained scheme."

34.

1. Then he received a fusillade of punches to the shoulder among some laughs. Wiping a tear from his eye, Roger looked across the street. "Where's Mikey?"

36.

1. "I don't know, man." Billy said, opening the rime-coated door to Renowned Furniture. "He said his parents would be home tonight, so he should be here."

38.

1. Once everyone was within the dark building, Billy continued. "Even if he's a no show, we'll be fine. We'll be able to do the job."

40.

1. To his friends, this was the first time they had seen the dark interiors of the store. In the short time since it was last dusted, new cobwebs had popped up in every corner and a fresh blanket of grime had settled on every surface.

42.

1. Worse, at least in Frank's eyes since it made him want to leave, the room wasn't lit by any of the studio lights overhead. Instead, the bright, flickering light was pouring out from the third floor. It reflected off the bronze locks and steel handles and flax-lined novels walled on the bookcases, Giving the interior a smoggy, orange hue.

44.

1. "Elizabeth?" Called Billy as the three boys walked between the walls of knicknacks. There was no response.

46.

1. A book caught Roger's eye, a turquoise whale imprinted on its side. The short freshman stepped aside and pulled it out, the cover reading "The history of -", its topic scratched out from the leather binding long ago. Flipping through the pages revealed shoal maps off the coast of Catuvella, underwater topography, and diagrams of lighthouses, light ships and buoys.

48.

1. "Elizabeth?" yelled Billy again now at the foot of the spiral staircase, who, unlike actually focusing on what they came here for.

2. Frank soon joined Roger in his alternative pursuits. "Is that a nipple?"

51.

1. "Label says deck prism," replied Roger

53.

1. "Guys, fuck off." Interjected Billy. "She wouldn't want you-"

55.

1. "Scheisse, boy, vy so hangry?"

57.

1. From the top of the staircase descended Elizabeth, candle in hand. Garbed in a loose grey dress which slid down the steps like flowing water, she made her way down slowly.

59.

1. The very sight made Billy's heart burn as he gazed in wonderment, fantasizing on how well she'd look in a wedding dress.

2. "Sorry." spoke the lapine lass. "Ze door repairman came und sey vanted electric locks und sey popped a fuse und now I have to use candles."

62.

1. While Billy was busy, staring, mouth agape, Roger questioned the rabbit with indignation. "Hey lady, what's with the dress?"

64.

1. "It came with ze candles." She answered nonchalantly as she passed Billy. "Are sey avare vere sey are?"

66.

1. "Huh?" was all that Billy could say, tripped up by her wording and accent.

68.

1. Brushing the blonde boy aside, she swayed her hips as she walked towards Roger. The short boy was dumbstruck, not by her beauty but how strange she looked up close in the dimly lit room.

70.

1. "Sis..." She snatched the book out of his hands and closed it. "is mein foster faser's, Mister Dovin-Basil."

72.

1. Frank peaked up from behind Roger, whispering. "Wait, wasn't that..." He took an elbow to the ribs from Roger, who coughed a "yes."

2. The rabbit lady continued, walking back to Billy. "Mein Foster Faser collected artifacts from as long ago as Vebb's village."

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1. Then she held up her hand-paw, showing off the bronze ring labeled "J.C." on her finger. "Sis vas ze last sing he showed me before his deas, und I sink it vas himportant enough to him he vore it to his deas."

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1. Carefully, sliding the ring up her digit and past the little pink paw pad tip, Elizabeth held it up to the light. "Hold out yur hand."

2. Billy did so, and clasping the circlet in his calloused palm, the rabbit gave her mission.

80.

1. "I vant yu to rebury sis ring vith mein foster foser."

82.

1. He ever carefully put the ring in his breast pocket as the lapine lass turned and started up the stairs. "I vill change now."

84.

1. With the ring in a protected spot, Billy scratched his chin. "You know what, maybe we are going to need Mikey."

86.

1. "I'm not doing it." Declared Roger. "This goes against my beliefs."

88.

1. "Oh come on Raj!" Billy exclaimed. "We have the dead's relatives' permission."

90.

1. "It's sacrilege to desecrate a body after it's been buried!" Roger uttered almost instantly, looking around the store nervously. "Also, you said if we didn't want to do it, you wouldn't make us."

92.

1. "Yes. We, as in You and Frank. The part of a team that aren't me, the captain." He pointed at both his friends. "You have to decide democratically."

94.

1. "We didn't agree to that." Roger responded in a high pitched voice. He meant to sound distraught, but it came out more like a whine.

96.

1. "Well that's how we dealt with similar shit." Billy bursted, now in Roger's face.

98.

1. "Well I say no." Roger straightened his back and grit his teeth before looking at the only other boy here. "Frank?"

100.

1. "Uhhhhhh." It was his turn to look around the room and shake his knees. "I don't really dig grave robbing, buuut..."

102.

1. "HAH!" spat Roger to Billy, making the blond boy clench his fist.

104.

1. "But I don't want to not to do it, otherwise we get snitched on," added Frank

106.

1. In the floor above ,Elizabeth hummed a tune as she folded the dress. She enjoyed listening to the drama below, chuckling as she purred "Ihn'n zum spott und zum verdross..."

108.

1. "Oh so you're just gonna play the middle?" chided Roger.

110.

1. "Back off Roger, it's his right," declared Billy.

112.

1. The two friends were squaring off, fists clenched at their sides though no one raised their fist or shouted. Frank stepped between them, arms raised, and said "Why don't we just let Mike be the tie breaker."

114.

1. "Deal" said Roger and BIlly simultaneously, and the group turned to watch the door, in anticipation for Mike's arrival.

116.

1. The avoidance of a fight was appreciated by Billy. It was getting heated, and he didn't want to risk losing his cool in front of a girl.

118.

1. The girl.

120.

1. Elizabeth was more than just some girl to him at this rate. And he wouldn't let himself be dragged down, especially not by one of his insubordinates.

122.

1. Insubordinates. He repeated the word in his head, wondering "Why..?"

124.

1. Just then Mikey walked through the door, and Billy's brow furled again. "shit."

126.

1. "Sorry!" yelled Mikey, holding the glass door open as four little ginger girls ran in. The eldest, Agnes, not even six years old, was the first to strike as she grabbed Frank's dreadlocks until he screeched. Before Frank and the other boys could contemplate what was happening, a second strike came from 5 year old Aileen as she repeatedly kicked Frank's shin until he fell over, no match for their vicious pincer attack. The boys, now in disarray as a third of their team had already fallen, to the third enemy combatant Aran, who wasn't yet four, as she ran after Roger, begging for piggy back rides. While the youngest at three years old, Angel, laughed, watching Roger hop atop the store desk to escape the little menace that was her sister. Then Angel looked to Billy and upon seeing his frown, started to cry.

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1. "Agnes! Get off mikey! Aileen, I will spank you!" Mike started for the two nuisances that were devastating Frank, but stopped to pick up his sister, angel, when she heard her crying. "My parents had to drive to fucking Bristol for a union meeting last minute."

130.

1. The blonde boy put his hands in his pocket and raspberried to let off steam, causing Angel to chuckle.

132.

1. "It's alright Mike. You down to go grave robbing?"

134.

1. "Fuck yeah, so long as it keeps them busy."

136.

1. "Thats unfair!" Yelled Roger, Aran jumping in front of him with arms raised. "You're violating my first amendment! This is tyranny of the majority!"

138.

1. His statements weren't addressed as Billy lifted up Aileen by the arms. "Hey you little thing! Do you want to learn how to use a shovel?"

140.

1. Unamused by Billy's whimsy and deceit, She answered him with a kick to his spleen.

142.

1. A weird noise came out of Billy's throat, and he dropped the girl. She landed on her feet. Satisfied with the pain and torment she afflicted upon, returned to tie up loose ends as she returned to kicking Frank. Mike exchanged the crying girl for the kicking one, the former standing over Billy and continuing to sob.

144.

1. "All-lee! Do you want me to spank you? I will put you in the corner!" The older brother of the sisters was now turning red in the face. "Agnes! Get! Off! My! Friend! Aran! Get away! All of you are going to bed without dinner when we get home!"

146.

1. Between groans of pain AND Mike's wrath, Billy almost didn't notice that the girls had all but shut up. Even the crying Angel had ceased her mewling.

148.

1. " YU VILL NOT TALK TO SEM LIKE SAT!"

150.

1. Elizabeth had entered the fray, walking down the stairs in red plaid pajama pants and a t-shirt. A multi-bra underneath, Billy noticed.

2. "What?" Mike planted his once-kicking sister on the ground. The red head boy was completely unphased by the fact he was now yelling at an anthro rabbit in pajamas. "These are my sisters. I need to lay down the law when they misbehave."

153.

1. " Yu do not no how to deal vis younger sisters!"

155.

1. The girls, all four of them including Aran ran around the spiral staircase and surrounded Elizabeth, seemingly mesmerized by her presence.

157.

1. "I'd like to see you do better!"

159.

1. Watching things from the ground, Billy had an idea.

161.

1. "Hey! Stop!" Billy brushed his coat off as he raised and picked up the littlest sister, Angel. Walking to the rabbit lady, he rocked the girl in hand gently. "Why don't you ignore what my friend said, and have a proper introduction?"

163.

1. Elizabeth looked at the littlest girl, her nose twitching slightly. The little ginger smelled just like applesauce.

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1. "That's Aignes, Aileen, Aran..." The boy struggled to properly hold the toddler, instead leaning towards the big bunny as if making an offer. "And this is Angel."

167.

1. The girl's eyes met, Elizabeth's pupil's like pinpricks. Angel, looking over the furry lady like a new toy, pulled her thumb out of her mouth to say "Wabbit!"

169.

1. Aran yelled, Elizabeth hopped, then Agnes and Aileen joined, startling Elizabeth and causing her to jump. Her ears twitched as the sisters raised their hands, asking for uppies, huggsies, pettsies and whatever the kid's babbled. The rabbit seemed caught in a trap, standing absolutely still, mind in a frenzy. Billy coughed to get her attention, and asked "Can you please look after them?"

2. Her mouth went agape, showing off her buck teeth. "I...I..."

172.

1. "Please." Now he had put Angel right in her face, causing the rabbit's ears to shake. "If you can watch them, we can get the job done tonight."

174.

1. Silence. All the Callaghan sisters had their lips closed, and focused on Elizabeth. She looked at them, biting her lip. When her gaze met Angel's, she reflexively offered to take her, to which Billy obliged.

176.

1. "Vell..." Her mind raced to come up with an excuse. But, to be back in that position, going through the familiar motions, of better times of days gone by. All doubts washed away as she looked into the green eyes of those little girls.

178.

1. "I vill do it."

180.

1. And once more the candle-lit room was filled with chaos. The little girls all bugged Elizabeth, tugging at her pajamas, poking her tail, hopping with their hands raised as if to grab her ears. Angel laughed as Elizabeth struggled to verbally discipline them. "Stop! Down! Dont tug mein pants! No! Ach!"

182.

1. Billy enjoyed the cute scene, though he stepped back slowly to avoid any unwarranted attention. He was still bothered by the chat about children he had a few days ago with Mike.

184.

1. Mike sighed in relief as what felt like a weight was lifted off his chest, and took a seat on the floor. Roger, feeling safe at last, speed walked past the horde of girls, careful not to touch any and receive their fury once more. Frank got up, repressing the trauma that happened just moments ago, and pointed a finger at Roger. "Are you coming?"

186.

1. Roger rubbed behind his ears. "I told my dad this was a job. I don't want to piss him off thinking I was lazy and got fired."

2. Coming up behind, Billy tapped Roger's shoulder. "If it makes you feel any better, I have the same excuse."

3. "Me too." Said Frank. "Hey Miss Eliza, since we're all doing this job for you..?"

190.

1. The rabbit girl looked upwards as she rocked two girls in her arms. "Schiesse, does sat mean I have to pay all of you?" Her voice seemed filled with genuine worry, but her actual feelings could be deduced from the shit-eating grin she wore. "Go dig up mein foster fasser. Ze grave is located in ze middle of ze old cemetery."

192.

1. The boys funneled out the exit, Billy hesitating before stepping out the door. He watched as the girls, starting to come to terms that Elizabeth was not, in fact, a giant toy but another adult in their lives, and, thus, out of boredom, began to mess with her stuff, pulling books, shuffling chairs, climbing atop dangerously stacked furniture. "Schiessse! Stop! No! Bad!" Gripping Angel in her arms, Elizabeth glanced at him. "Everysing okay?"

194.

1. "Yeah." The blonde boy muttered with a dumb smile a mile wide across his face.

196.

1. "Sen I vill see you later."

198.

1. "Come on Billy!" Yelled Roger, who had already crossed mainstreet.

200.

1. Billy raised his hand, repressing a slight desire to stick around and help her with the Callaghan girls. "Goodbye."

202.

1. She didn't say goodbye back, her hand taken by Agnes as she pointed at something in the back and babbled a question.

204.

1. He watched her fade into the near-darkness as she walked to the back of the store with the girls, and then he was out the door.