Book Seven: Chapter 92

“Wait, army?” Mike’s jaw dropped. “He has a skeleton army?”

Leilani nodded solemnly. “They cannot survive long outside of the water unless they are on his ship. So he keeps them stashed in the depths, buried beneath the sand where they won’t be discovered.”

“Shit.” Mike looked down at his feet, then up toward the sky. “I guess it makes sense. If he’s a Player in the Game, it’s not like he’s just on a pleasure cruise around the world. Does he have any other powers I should know about?”

Leilani shook her head. “In the hundreds of years we’ve known him, the skeletons are the ones we find most frightening. If there are others, they have gone unnoticed.”

“Hundreds? What the hell?” Mike groaned. “How come this guy gets to live hundreds of years?”

The princess laughed. “That’s because he found the Fountain of Youth! He used to go back every decade or so and drink from it, but I found out from my mother recently that it dried up before I was born. Francois is n