By the time I reached the kitchen, my arms were starting to ache from carrying so many cores.
I dropped everything onto the island and watched several crystals roll across the counter. Yuche caught one before it reached the edge, while Chenghai stopped another with the side of his hand.
The baby vine crawled in before Lingyun closed the door. Both heads looked slightly rounder than they had outside, and its movements had slowed to the lazy crawl of something that had eaten far more than it should have.
I looked down at it. "Are you happy now?"
One head opened its mouth in a yawn, exposing several rows of teeth before the vine wrapped itself around my ankle.
Ungrateful little shit.
Lingyun leaned back against the door and started laughing.
I stared at him as I rubbed the marks the cores had left against my arms. "What?"
"Zombie gang war," he said between breaths.
