Chapter 56 : Twenty Questions

"What's your...birthday?"

"Don't you mean 'when is your birthday'?"

"Psh, I'm too buzzed to care, man."

Benedictis was disgruntled, but he still answered my question, "December thirteenth... give or take a few hundred years ago."

"...When is yours?"

"I can't remember. My turn; how old are you?"

"Well...It's been...carry the one...four hundred and...twenty?"

I kiss an old guy? Ew.

"Don't make that face! I'm young for a god!"

"Are you even technically a god? Gods and Goddesses are divine entities born of the earth and are quite frankly out of this world...you told me you used to be human."

"I was."

"So how do you know you're a god?"

"I'm certainly not an angel."

"Those don't exist."

"No, they do. I'm surprised you haven't seen one, high pope."

I tsked.

"I just...know, I guess. It's instinctive. It's like how you know you're a mortal."

"I'm certainly something."

"Yes...not entirely human, are you?"

"Nope."

"Hmm."

"But I have no idea what else I am."

"I could probably help you with some research."

"Sounds like fun, but there's no more avoiding that shot glass, Benny-Ben-Ben."

"Why must I drink, Antonio?"

"Because you lost. Let's play never have I ever, It'll make drinking more fun and less...awkward. You start," I commanded.

"Hmm. Never have I ever...run away from home?" I boo and take a swig directly from the bottle. Oh, that's a nice burn. I don't even care that I'm as red as a cow's teet.

"Never have I ever...Slept with someone." Neither of us drinks, "Seriously?"

"Yeah."

"Wow."

He chuckled, "Never have I ever...fallen in love." I was quiet for a moment before I looked down and took a long, LONG, sip.

"Want to talk about it?"

"Not particularly."

"Was it the person you saw in the gray door?"

I made a sound of confirmation and the room once again descends into silence, the awkward air thick enough to slice with a goblin's blade.

"...How about karaoke?" Benedictis asks.

"Okay."

And so we sing some of the strange songs in this world (some even about me!) and I slowly forget the sadness my mind had trapped itself in, feeling like I had betrayed drake by kissing Benedictis.

I don't know what to do anymore.