Sixteen
Solitaire
A month had passed. Seph combed through the news of his hometown, but nothing. No headlines. No reports. Strange… his fear melted into anxiety in the pit of his stomach. The band practiced a cover of “Undisclosed Desires” by Muse enough times to feel proud about it. Chibi found a theater stage in the forest that young, hip people used to watch Old World films on some wacky old medium called super eight.
They went in the middle of the night, cold to the bone. Chibi set up a flood light she found at the home department store. Ren set up a drone to get epic pans of them performing.
“You ready?” Chibi beamed, holding one stick up.
Seph smiled at her, Ren nodded, Lucius began to play, and Chibi rolled in. The sound filled the forest, echoing into the night between the pin
