Francis Flaming Goes

“No, I don’t want to be next,” I told Harold as he continued to use his powers on Francis Flamingo, keeping her from moving or getting out of his grip. “I also don’t want to have to hurt you, Harold. I just saved you, for crying out loud. But I can’t let you kill Francis. She’s my friend’s mom.”

“I don’t care who she is to you!” Harold snarled. “She ruined my life! She locked me up for years. She deserves to die!”

“Why don’t you do the same thing to her that she did to you?” I asked him. “Can’t you send her into the other realm, the way she did you? You said you were going to seal them up, right?”

I could tell that he was considering doing what I’d suggested, that the wheels in his head were