"I heard you kids caused a ruckus while I was gone."

"It was just Poppy." Travis says.

"You..." Poppy angrily responds in a whispering volume.

"He'll eventually know it so there's no point in hiding it." Cole exclaims.

"Good one, Cole. I will always know everything, eventually."

"My Lord, I know that you have assembled us for a reason here. But I think we should shine light as to how our crusades would benefit us and the psychic kind? I was thinking that this is the proper time for that."

"It is. Very good Benson. I was about to explain it after we went to Deronia with all of us and Richard McCree altogether. But now that that's been delayed, I guess I'll have to explain things now."

"Deronia? Why there? We goin' on a vacation?" Travis asks him.

*Obligatory author's note in the middle of a chapter: Deronia is considered as a place that normally exists in this novel's universe. By normal, I mean people have heard of it and the place is listed in the world map.*

"Deronia is a plain looking tropical island for many. But it is the place that connects heaven and hell to our world."

"Okay.. what?!?!?" Poppy exclaims.

"I saw pics of Deronia on Insta. It's not a plain looking island."

"Heaven and hell? Haven't you heard of it in your bibles and qurans?? Come on, don't act so shocked."

"Why are we going there?" Travis asks again.

"We'll get to there Travis, calm down. The catch here is that only the residents of Deronia can enter and see this gateway. The Queen that I have been talking about endlessly is The Queen of Deronia, who has been long dead. But she is the mother of all us psychics. Now all of you have the Queen's blood right? Not only can you see beyond the gateway, but we can also meet with.... with whoever might be there on the other side."

"So even you don't know that?"

"I do. But it is a secret a pure blood like me is sworn to keep. Once we get to our destination, we can have one wish. One wish that will immediately come true once we all return to this realm we are standing on right now. Any kind of wish. Whatever the freedom of your minds could dictate."

"This is supposed to enlighten us?" Travis says.

"I am more confused than ever. Why don't we just go there then? Why get that Richard guy?" Cole suggests.

"I've explained this before right? The ritual can only be completed if all the living descendants or in this case 'bloodholders' of The Queen are there."

"We're gonna kill that Richard guy right?" Poppy asks him.

"No, Poppy. That is not what a benevolent, all and ever-loving, Go-"

Lord Henry pauses to think about what his next lines could be.

"That is not what a benevolent, all and ever-loving, saviour would do. We have to give him another shot and perhaps telling him about the wish would do the trick."

"Why can't I go outside, mother??"

"You don't want to interact with these 'people'."

"Why what's wrong with them?"

"They're not like us, that's what's wrong."

"Oh. Can I play at the flower fields then?"

"Only to trample the rose bushes, step on the poppies and unearth the lilacs. The azaleas and the violets died because of you last year, remember? I killed that useless prick of a gardener just to lash out my anger towards you. No, you are only allowed to stay in the castle."

"I'm sorry mother."

"I don't need your sorry. Why can't you be like your brother?"

"He's not even alive yet, he's still in your tummy."

"Not if you keep trampling the flowers. The Queen loves plants, remember? We would have been punished because of your sins. Now go to your room. You are staying outside for too long."

Henry gives her a face of anger.

"I believe I'm old enough to decide that for yourself. I have been spreading the word of The Queen my entire life yet I can't decide on things like these."

"No, you are not!! You are being kept here so we could not get caught."

"Caught by who??? You said we are the most powerful."

"There are people that can strip us away of this power. So you are not leaving this household or even your room unless I command you to!!! Go to your room, now!!"

He climbed upstairs faster than a speedster.

Every night and then, Henry tried to get a grasp of the vibrations he kept feeling in the sky to ease his boredom.

"Why can't I pick up the damn-"

*Kokomo by The Beach Boys plays*

"I caught it!! And it's just at the chorus. We'll get there fast and then we'll take it slow, that's where we wanna go...."

"Way down in Kokomo"

He sneaks out of the window and flies to the flower fields.

"Martinique, that Montserrat mystique"

"Now to find some humans." he says before flying away from the fields and blowing off a bunch of the plants.

"We'll put out to sea and we'll perfect our chemistry"

"Excuse me, do you know where Deronia is? My mother is looking for that place." he asks someone.

"And by and by we'll defy..."

"What are you talking about kid and what are you doing here? It's the middle of the night."

"...a little bit of gravity"

The man was sent flying to the heavens at the clench of Henry's fist, landing dead at the back of a garbage truck.

"Afternoon delight.."

Henry then stumbles upon an acid house music party.

"cocktails and moonlit nights"

"I suppose no one here has an answer for me. The Queen wouldn't love these senseless organizations of people."

"That dreamy look in your eye, give me a tropical contact high"

"Useless pricks. Because of you humans, she doesn't like me!!!"

"Way down in Kokomo"

*the chorus plays*

The rave party immediately turned into a bloodbath as Henry took his rage out on the people present.

"If you all listened to me and I've made an organization, a religious one to be exact, out of all of you then she would have been proud!!! Your feeble minds do not fit with the will of The Queen!!!" he says before bursting a couple of the party-goers heads.

"Now I have to stay locked indoors!!! I'm a hundred years old and I get sent to bed like a fucking six year old??? And now I have to wait for that stupid fucking baby to be born because it was supposed to be better than me? Fuck this."

Someone injects LSD at Henry's neck while he is distracted at doing his tantrums. Henry slowly turns his face to the guy that injected him the drugs and then controls him to stab himself in the eye with the left dosages.

*the song slowly fades away from Henry's hearing*

A whole LSD trip later, Henry looks at his bloody arms like a maniac while he rests on the garden. He then begins to uncontrollably laugh at himself.

"This very garden, this is where my mother died."

"Who killed her?" Cole asks him.

"I have no idea, but it's probably the people she warned me off. The ones that can strip us off our abilities.

"So Richard is one of them? I knew we should've killed him!!!"

"Stop thinking like that, Poppy. I already took care of one of these "anti-psychics" and I didn't even kill him. Murder isn't always the solution to our problems."

"Says the guy that massacred all those people in that one hallway that still hasn't been cleaned up." Travis says.

Lord Henry stops himself from expressing any kind of anger towards Travis.

"Just remember to don't do drugs, alright children?"

A distorted version of the final verses of Kokomo by The Beach Boys played on Henry's head.

"Glad I finally got to kill you, you fucking bitch. I'm better than that fucking child you have and I'm better than anyone else!! All I ever wanted was for you to be proud but you've never even acknowledged my existence and kept me locked in this shitty old castle!! Preaching about how we will become gods to these pathetic creatures will not be enough. We have to show them what we can do. What we can do you may ask? Everything once we open the gates back to our home."

The rain started to pour down but his laughter was louder and the droplets of his tears made more contact with the flowers for quite a while.

End of Chapter 32