Spoiled by Eight Uncles

At last, Lilly shook her head honestly.

"I don't know if you were right or wrong, and I don't know why those people did so many bad things but still had the protection of the gods."

"I'll tell you if I get an answer."

Jessie stared at Lilly for a long time, nodding at last.

"Alright.I'll wait for you, then.Tell me when you've found an answer!"

Lilly nodded, her hands clasped together.Yet one hand was chubby and pink, the other was thin and pale...

The sun was about to rise.

Blake looked at the ocean.

"We should head back."

Lilly put all the ghosts back into the spirit jar, along with Jessie and her doll.

On the way home, Lilly cracked a yawn as she lay on Blake's shoulder.She wasn't tired, however, staring blankly into space.

Blake asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Lilly asked, "Dad, did Jessie do the right thing?"

Blake fell silent for a while.

"Jessie's tragedy was rooted in the culture and traditions of her people.It was rooted in her mother, and those people whose hearts were not in the right place."

"Stopping evil with evil...who's to say if that's right or not.Dad doesn’t have an answer to that for you, either."

Judgment was not as simple as just right or wrong.

That was why the Ruler of Hell existed— to see if one had lived a life of good deeds or evil ones.He was not the Ruler of Hell, and could not say if this was right or wrong.

Lilly lay on his shoulder, cracking another yawn.Pablo floated next to them.

"If you were to judge these acts separately, Jessie's mother, and those people were wrong.Jessie was wrong too, though."

"Those people were wrong to be foolish, overly-superstitious."

"Jessie was wrong to kill blindly.Out of the hundreds of people she set fire to, the real culprits could only have been just a few of them— but she killed everyone."Being able to kill hundreds of people as a child was probably a feat that few were capable of.

"But if you put them all together, everything happened for a reason, and karma took its course.Jessie and Mindy had been living a simple, peaceful life, but the drum-makers wreaked tragedy upon them and caused Jessie's violence.Jessie might have killed those hundreds of people, but it would be more appropriate to say that it was her and those few people behind the drum that killed everyone."

"After all, Jessie's killing spree would never have happened if they had not committed an evil deed to begin with."

Of course, there was also the debate over the fact that Jessie would not have been able to kill all those people had she not had an aggressive nature.It all depended on who was saying these things.

Everyone had their own take on things.

Those innocent people who died had their own Ma and Mindy, as well as their own fathers and brothers.

they supposed to resent, then? Jessie, of

Master ramble on.Her eyelids were barely holding themselves open as she mumbled, "Master always

Pablo: ...

now? Asking him for

he nagged and talked too much when she didn't need him! Ha! Women! Pablo's figure slowly faded,

still watching over

before Bettany came searching the

rescued woke up in a daze when the sun

sun rose higher and higher, the amusement park resumed

see Lilly still asleep.She called out for her

The old lady smiled.

well last night?" Blake didn't

like a

a soundly sleeping

bring her out hunting for

looked right

"No way!"

Bettany stared right back.

"Hmm?"

out

ended so late.You

attacked for no reason:

Anthony under the bus! Anthony was annoyed, but still said, "Let the kid sleep for a little while longer.She couldn't sleep the

At least blame Blake for training Lilly all night! Blake rubbed his

the rich bigshot, always

see these two grown men argue

just worried, and had to put up

only five, and could not take their

Don't wake Lilly

put the

all of

out at once.He was going to check on the amusement park's cameras to make sure

didn’t get the ghost, they'd get Lilly playing in there all

good

fell

limbs starfished on the bed as her belly

slept all the way until it was nighttime, and was starving by the time she got

her grandma was around to feed her at the drop of a hat, making sure her belly was

then peaceful and quiet, and Lilly had

the amusement park, and Hannah wanted to

Bettany said, "No way!"

go on the

even

herself: Thank goodness she had

Grandma would never

Still, Lilly asked curiously, "Grandma, why can't children play on these

annoyed, "Grandma says