<span style="color: #b3b300">“Those that came before me didn’t have Order for a friend. No more of your siblings will needlessly die because of that man. Ras will-“</span>He stopped and looked around the room with a frown.<span style="color: #b3b300">“He’ll meet his reckoning and your family will be avenged.”</span>Leeta would hear the rattle of chains before the shadows in the room swirled and Ras appeared. “Shut the fuck up. I don’t know who you are but every time you say my I hear you talk about me and it’s really getting annoying.” He looked at Leeta for a moment then back to Lonnie and took a drink from his massive cup of coffee.<span style="color: #b3b300"> “You’re Ras?”</span>“No, I’m just some random asshole off the street who appeared out of nowhere.”<br/><br/><span style="color: #ffcc99">“I just don’t want her saying he’s her son. She can help us with him but she’s not anything to him, we’re his parents.”</span><br/><br/>Chiren shook her head as she looked over the graveyard.<span style="color: #9999ff">“No, but he said… um… they will uh, never see the sun again? I don’t know what that means.” </span>She grabbed her mother’s hand and squeezed it as much as she could.<span style="color: #9999ff">“Chi-chi wants Momma and Poppa Ras to be friends. He makes me so happy and feel safe. And you do too. All of the siblings like his house and his babies.” </span>She looked around and then pointed to a headstone that stood out from the rest, it was larger and intricately carved. The stone wasn’t placed there by Ashia and sat at the back of the yard.<span style="color: #9999ff">“Poppa Ras made that one. He said it’s for my big brother. Brother isn’t dead but Chi-chin can’t meet him.”</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>