Chapter 130: Five Years Later

Epilogue IIn the sprawling garden behind the big house by the sea, a war council was in session.It was being held beneath the dining room table.“Listen up,” said the eldest, and everyone listened up, because she was the leader and she had an eye patch, which made it official. The eye patch was made of construction paper and one of her mother’s hair elastics, and it kept sliding up onto her forehead, but she pushed it back down with the gravity of a true captain. Her name was Mira, she was five and a half, and she had her father’s dark eyes and her mother’s wild curls, currently stuffed under a bandana. “We have a very important mission today.”“Is it the cookies?” asked the middle one hopefully. This was Theo, who was four, and who believed that most missions, when you really got down to it, were secretly about cookies.“It is NOT the cookies,” Mira said. “Although.” She considered. “Maybe later it’s the cookies. But FIRST.” She unrolled their map, which was a placemat she had d

Chapter 131: Ten Years Later

Epilogue II“Ewww. Mum. Dad. Stop kissing each other, it’s so embarrassing.”Aria pulled back from her husband with a laugh, and Jason … silver just beginning at his temples now, the faint scar at his side an old, forgotten thing … kept his arm around her waist purely to be annoying. In the doorway stood their eldest, fifteen and a half now, lean and tall and rolling her eyes with the full theatrical force only a teenager can summon.Mira had long since retired the construction-paper eye patch. These days she wore eyeliner she was technically not allowed to wear yet and an expression of permanent mild suffering at the existence of her parents. She crossed the kitchen, snagged an apple from the bowl, and bit into it with the careless grace of someone who had no idea how much she still looked like the small pirate who’d once conquered this very room with a water gun.“You used to think it was nice when we loved each other,” Aria said.“I was a baby. I didn’t know better.” Mira hopped

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Chapter 130: Five Years Later

Chapter 131: Ten Years Later