Sneaking Out the Back Before Dad Catches You by Predhead, literature
Literature
Sneaking Out the Back Before Dad Catches You
As warriors wandered through the portals Esrever considered his job well done. Despite dissenting voices they’d managed to accomplish their goals without losing anyone in the most permanent sense. No one he could remember anyway. People vanishing from existence did a number on one’s memories but as guardian of the Reverse World he should be largely immune to that and he didn’t remember any problems. All in all things had turned out the best he could have expected. Now if he could just convince Jack to go home then things would be- Wait.
“Where’s Jack,” Esrever asked, “Unfolding his arms. Did I miss h
"I wish you would take this seriously," Ben complained.
"I fail to see how I'm not taking this seriously," Jack replied, swinging a lumpy sock like a mace to dispel another antibody that was trying to form. "Esrever asked me to take this seriously so I'm taking it seriously."
"By setting up a table to play cards," Ben added sardonically.
Jack tied his improvised flail to his belt and resumed stacking bits of rubble and hacking some of the scattered pillars into roughly chair-like shapes. There were now five "chairs" around a table made of a good sized chunk of wall held up by, as far as Ben could tell, a random area of space where gravity
The tree that dominated the entirety of the tiny world loomed over the gathered parties, branches heavy with berries and birds, and seemingly unaware of the way Jack continued to glare
at the gaps in the trunk. The one sided staring contest continued for a couple minutes before the Jirachi burst that had been making a round of each of the portals, and associated burst warriors gathered in a queue at them, found his way over. The wish granter watched the silent confrontation between man and tree before deciding to butt in.
"Did the tree do something or do you just not like trees in general," Ben asked, floating over between Jack and the tar