Silence fallen6/3/2023 The first step is to call me by my game name-Barbary Belle.” You have to believe I’m a pirate to make it a proper game. Ignoring his response that she wasn’t his sister, she continued, “As long as you call me Jesse-that’s who you think of when you interact with me. “It only works right if you think of me as a pirate and not your sister,” Jesse said patiently. He was still finding some things about modern life difficult to adjust to, like the live-action-role-playing (LARP) aspect of the computer-based pirate game they were playing. We had assimilated him, rather than adopted him, as he was centuries older than Adam and me put together. “Call me Barbary Belle,” my stepdaughter, Jesse, reminded him.Īiden might have looked and sounded like he was a boy, but he hadn’t been young for a very long time. “Jesse-” Aiden began, raising his voice to carry over an enthusiastic if off-key whistling rendition of “The Sailor’s Hornpipe.” All the while, piratical howls rose up the stairway from the bowels of the basement. It ate the eighteen cups of flour I dumped into it with room for more. If I ever filled the bowl entirely, I’d have to have one of the werewolves move it. Darryl had gotten me a jumbo-sized antique mixing bowl last Christmas that probably could have held the water supply for an elephant for a day. They were popular fare on Pirate night, so I needed to make a lot. This wasn’t the first time chocolate got me in trouble.
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