Life After Death

Corryn: new help

{Corryn}

Lilith knew all the drinks by heart and mixed them with a smile. I bet, when I wasn't there, she was raking in tips. Not that she was doing it for the money. I wished I had hired someone earlier than this; it was nice to talk to someone who was helping with the dishes and the surly customers. Roger was usually across the bar, or at the entrance.

"So how is the tutoring going for little Gawain?" Lilith asked me, wiping up the bar during a lull.

"He learns quickly," I said. "But he's seven. So it takes me awhile to figure out how to put necromancy into seven year-old terms."

"Aren't you going to get bored of it?" she asked. "It's been almost two weeks. I'd go mad if I was stuck in some room giving lessons for two weeks."

"I also have this," I replied, pouring a glass of whisky for myself. "It's nice to see Otherworld though. Blue skies and green growing things and all of that."

"You going to get back there someday?" she asked.

"How?" I countered. "The only way I could think of last time was to already have a living body down here. I can't just drag someone to Hell from within Hell."

"I forget you dead ones don't have bodies there," Lilith replied, putting up the rest of the clean glasses.

She left one on the table and filled it with brandy.

"You do?"

She nodded. "How else would demons fight faeries? That would be a extremely sorry sight otherwise."

"Hell and Otherworld have no need to fight one another," I remarked. "Otherworld is amusingly busy with internal government and Hell doesn't seem organized."

"That's because Hell isn't organized," she said. "What did you do when you were alive? I doubt it was just bartending."

"They killed me taking down the government." I sipped my whiskey, appreciating the expense I was drinking. But it was my own bar. "It was a pastime anyway. I was bored and anarchy is exciting."

"For a time," Lilith admitted, and turned to smile at the demon walking in.

I couldn't remember his name, but I remembered two cherries in his screwdriver. He took it with a nod.

"But anarchy implies you aren't in charge," she pointed out. "What's the fun of that? I would take down a government to bring it under my reins."

"If you want to run a government," I replied. "Which I never did."

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Very short, but I realized this is at the end of the section, so it has to be on its own. Thanks for reading!