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Box 066

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Box 066 has been in our family for years.

It is, in a way, our family heirloom. Of course, it got more difficult when I got into the adventure business. They really don’t like you showing up wearing a crown on the same day as Her Majesty of the Unseelie Court attends. Apparently, it tends to start a fight and then the Seelie Queen has to be involved.

Then the mayor is calling mother, and she’s yelling at me. I really don’t mean to start these fights, it just happens.

Kind of like how I’m now running through the theatre from a ghost and a banshee. I guess they started chasing me outside of the theatre, back about the time we stopped at the old gas station.

Jack didn’t like that crown any more than the one involved in the first fight I mentioned. I didn’t know that you weren’t supposed to wear crowns you found in a disappearing castle either, I swear. I wouldn’t do that to him, because I really want to keep a relationship one of these days. I mean, I haven’t had sex in forever, not since that time I ran into that one vampire in Prague.

And it wasn’t even good. He just had all these puns, or at least I think they were puns, about ancient rulers. But he kept talking about the House of Basarab and then got distracted counting the pearls I dropped.

Can vampires get drunk? That would explain it. Or maybe he moved, though I don’t see why he would.

Oh. Right. This is why mother didn’t want me becoming an explorer. I get distracted too easily by stories according to her. But that’s how you find all the fun stuff.

Besides, I always know how to get out of the trouble, except for the fact that poor Jack is never going to talk to me again, assuming that the banshee scream didn’t drive him insane.

But other types of trouble are easy to get out of.

Especially since Grandmother always made sure to leave stuff in our box in case things happened. She was awesome like that.

Who knew banshees didn’t like maple syrup?

FFM, July 7, 2015

Create Your Own Challenge, where I picked:
Object: Crown
Wordcount: 365 words
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Character: Eccentric Adventurer
Additional Element: Family Heirloom

I also used the prompt Box number 066 by distortified

I put a lot of time into thinking about a possible weakness for banshees. I finally picked maple syrup because banshees are supposed to show up at or around deaths, and maple syrup is produced by something alive, but unlike blood isn't creepy and another sign of death. I mean, I could have used milk or something, but syrup seemed funnier.

See, I do put thought into my off the wall stories.

So this is Urban Fantasy, with a very strong dose of humor.
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WindySilver's avatar
Cool! That ending line is so great! :D