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.

were they supposed to resent, then? Jessie,

getting sleepy listening to her Master ramble on.Her eyelids were barely holding themselves open as she mumbled, "Master always talks so much...always

Pablo: ...

now? Asking him for answers when she didn't

and talked too much when she didn't need him! Ha! Women! Pablo's figure

was still watching

to the hotel before Bettany came searching the rooms, tucking Lilly

woke up in a daze when the sun rose, unclear what

higher and higher, the amusement park resumed its usual hustle and

to see Lilly still asleep.She called out for her to

The old lady smiled.

not sleep well

like

pointed at a

you bring

looked right at

"No way!"

Bettany stared right back.

"Hmm?"

lied out through his

so late.You have Anthony to

for

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

meant: At least blame Blake for training Lilly all night! Blake rubbed

bigshot, always so

men argue while covering for each

things as they were! She was just worried, and had to put up somewhat of an act so these

was only five, and could not take their military-grade

enough! Don't wake

the breakfast

out, all of

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

get Lilly playing in there

look good if it

fell quiet

over, her limbs starfished on the bed as her belly rose

until it was nighttime,

feed her at the drop of a

Lilly had an

the amusement park, and Hannah wanted to go

Bettany said, "No way!"

go on the

said, "Don't even

thought to herself: Thank goodness she had her

would

asked curiously, "Grandma, why can't children

"Grandma says they'll toss your brains