"Pass the popcorn, dear," said Noo, looking at her lovely little granddaughter. Layla, who was slightly distracted, handed her grandmother an empty bucket. Everyone in the room looked at each other. They all knew why she was distracted, but it couldn't be helped.
This was the first time that they, as a family, were taking a vacation together. Previously, even the thought of taking a vacation was inconceivable. Their world was at war against zombies, and the most likely scenario was that they would die fighting.
Then the change happened, and the Ferrin family was caught up in rebuilding their world so they sent Layla away so that she might have a semblance of a childhood. Indeed, a childhood she did have, and as expected from her she became a leader of countless children.
Yet her ever growing close association with a commoner with no future was worrying, so they pulled her back to Vegus Minima, where she resumed her cultivation path.
