Dandy Randy El Flamboyant
Copyright© 2020 by Yob
Chapter 8: The Unappreciated Early End
Time has been arrested. Every day, exactly the same. Same-O-same-O. BORING.
Will, Lou, and Maggie completed their thousand year confines to lamps. Will was institutionalized. After so long as a prisoner, freedom terrified him. The Duende happily agreed Will could continue with them, in the same routine he was addicted to.
Lou went on to Hell upon his release. Maggie tried re-establishing herself as Queen of the Goblins. Nobody would back her. One day, she just left and was never seen again.
Lilith reclaimed her well used corpse, and likewise disappeared.
Phil stopped servicing Luz and Bebe long ago. I picked up the slack, just as I was forced to do with Regina. Just as Wati and I picked up Will’s abandoned responsibilities.
Whatever happened to Antonia, Alexandra, and Claudia? After the death of Ninell, they left. Heartbroken, and very angry with Phil, they stayed gone a long time.
Then ONE RED LETTER DAY, they returned. With a vengeance! And a lamp. Little Ninell’s body was finally laid to rest, with great ceremony and in loving memory, in the ranch’s exclusive private cemetery. Her family left again, with Phil incarcerated in the lamp. Are they going to keep him like a milk cow? Maybe throw the lamp with Phil into a volcano? They never said anything. They never visit us, but from time to time, I see fresh flower’s on Little Ninell’s grave, by which I conclude, her mom and sisters do come and visit her grave.
Phil’s quarters were stripped, steam-cleaned, and freshly painted. A large CO2 bottle, equipped with a heat sensor release valve, was installed. The room is used for storing paint and volatile spirits. Solvents and paint thinners. Nobody wanted the room.
Flor heard us talking about volatile spirits when we were making up a scrounge list. She asked what volatile spirits were, and I explained they were dangerous to store. Precautions are needed. Flor suggested Phil’s old room to store them.