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dungeon

We go together. Dad is the first one to see us; he has four eyes. What else would I expect? "Oh, give me my grandbabies!" he said. Vaggie and the others are now looking, Angel counting the babies.

"It would have been nice to know that it was triplets," I said, looking at Dad.

"I can't reveal the future," Dad said.

"Still," I replied.

"Where did Charlie disappear to?" Vaggie asked.

"Her bedroom," I said.

"No, before that," Vaggie insisted.

"Also, how is there this much space and not many bathrooms?" Angel said.

"You didn't find..." I asked, raising one eyebrow.

"Your sex dungeon. You still have my collar," he followed me, Eve said.

"I told you only when Lilith or I was with you," I said.

"Well, I took back my collar. I miss the voltage," Eve said, sipping water.

"So many things I dream of," Angel said.

"I can probably get you a job with Ozzy, but it's a long shot. Not for a bit; I am busy with Lilly, Rose, and Astor," I said. Dad baby-snatched them. Baby-snatching asshole, I thought. "I'm their grandfather; I get to baby-snatch," he said. I sat the way I used to before it became uncomfortable with the pregnancy.

"How did you just have triplets? You look like you haven't been pregnant at all," Cherry asked.

"Fast healing, being drugged to sleep for a day," I said.

"Lucky bastard," she said. Charlie's presence can be felt. Vaggie said, "Tell me when you're running off in a big fucking castle." Charlie stood beside her. "I was checking on Dad and got sucked in by the cuteness," she said.

"How do you not get lost?" Husk asked.

"I grew up here," she replied.

"So you know the secret rooms," Angel said. I glared at him.

"Most Dad locked; most of them with keys he only has," she said.

"They are locked for a reason," I said.

"Why can't I see them? I am no longer a kid," Charlie asked.

"Well, you see, some are full of ducks from when I was locked away. I should burn those. Clothes from the millennia; the rest are storage. Well, one is an armory, a dungeon, and then one is your mom's stuff. Nothing you want to see," I said.

"A dungeon? You tortured people?" Charlie asked.

"A long time ago, the bad people, the very bad people," I said.

"I want to see it," she insisted.

"No, it is a room that's magically locked." It's a bit hotter in here.

"Mom," Charlie said.

"Not anymore," Eve replied.

"Why are you here?" I asked.

"I was going to see if we could work things out, but it seems like you have moved on," Lilith said.

"I moved on a while ago," I said.

"New Orleans," she said.

"Yes, now get your stuff; the offer to live here is no longer valid," I said.

"What, the house in Greed?" she asked.

"No, Lust. Ozzy and I fixed it up a while back. I don't hate you that much," I said.