HIT LIST, CHAPTER 28

To start with, a fun fact: Though not an official holiday, August 6 is called the day of hamsters by hamster lovers in Japan. This is because their word for "August 8" is pronounced "hamu" and hamu is an abbreviation of a hamster in Japanese.

Unrelated: So, you know Operation Pied Piper? When the British government moved urban kids out to more rural areas so that they would be safe from German bombings in WWII? ALL THE YOUNG SWANMANES TOTALLY GOT MOVED OUT TO RUTHVEN'S PLACE

ALL OF THEM

AT ONCE

WHAT FUN

FUN LIKE A BARREL OF MONKEYS

BY WHICH I MEAN FUN LIKE TINY SCREECHY BITING POO-FLINGING THINGS EVERYWHERE

has to save their downy asses every two seconds from moor-beasts because they have viciousness of swans and illusion-of-immortality of kids and thus are constantly going after hellhunds and lindworms and what and thus ENDANGERING HIS INVESTMENT IN THEM DAMMIT

...he's not happy.

UR BABYSITTING, CELIA! NO THE THERIAN EMPLOYEES CAN'T DO IT, they won't be able to resist snacking on them when they're this size

Even if you have no interest in my characters or stories, I will bet anything you'd rather be reading that than...

( HIT LIST, CHAPTER 28 )