"So," Damien says, slamming his hands down on the table before him with an authoritative gaze, "ideas?"

Everyone glanced around at each other, silently asking, who's going to answer him first?

"Oh, come on guys," Damien groans. "At least someone here has to have an idea. Or else I'm going to make Roshan tell you my idea."

"I'm not telling anyone your idea," Roshan grumbles, crossing fauns arms. "It's moronic."

Damien frowns, feigning mock hurt. "Wow, that hurts, you know that?" They peered around at the rest of the group. "I'd like you guys to know that my ideas are the opposite of moronic. They're brilliant, really."

Asryn scoffs loudly, Roshan rolls fauns eyes, and Fitz sighs as loud as he possibly can. The three all seem to be simultaneously thinking: is this guy serious? Or, perhaps: I can't believe we agreed to work with this person.

"I had an idea!" JJ says, raising their hand. "I talked about it in my group, I was think we could cover everything in—"

"NO!" Meg, Lilith, and Alanna yell, all at once.

JJ frowns, and Lilith quickly tries to recover by saying, "I mean, no, we just did not agree on that plan in any way, so, uh, don't listen to them."

"Our actual idea—" Meg butts in, "—is to—"

"Nope," Lilith interrupts. "Not that idea, either."

"Well, I thought we were just going with that one because you wouldn't tell us your actual idea." Meg crosses her arms, tilting her head to one side.

Lilith's mouth opens, as if she's going to reply, but Damien says, "Lilith, if you're going to keep your idea from us, then you better make it good."

Roshan raises an eyebrow at them, but Damien just shrugs in response, promptly winking at the group.

He turns around, away from the group, for a split second, then in all dramatic fashion, turns back around, saying, "Buuuuut." They point finger guns at Lilith. "You're going to have to tell me."

If Damien was expecting complaints from the rest of the group, he didn't receive them. All of them just stared at him in blank yet slightly aggravated silence as Lilith and him head to a nearby picnic table.

The two talk in low whispers for a moment, and finally Damien stands and stretches, yawning loudly.

He walks closer to the conglomeration of scheming prank people.

"Okay, bye!" He yelled at the group, waving his hand.

They just stare at him.

"Good-bye," they repeat, putting extra emphasis on the bye. "Meeting ajourned! Officially!"

Asryn and Fitz just turned away from him and resumed their talking, and JJ gave him a soft smile before chatting with Alanna. Even Lilith ran over to talk with Meg, Pelo, and Orion.

One was left. Roshan, staring at them, a smirk on fauns face. Damien's confusion must have been obvious, because Roshan seemed pleased.

And why was faun so pleased? So smug? Damien believed it couldn't just be because of his confusion.

Something had just happened.

"Sorry, Damien!" JJ finally said to him after he walked fully over to the group, eyebrows furrowed.

"Sorry for what?"

Meg crossed her arms and tilted her head to the right. "While you were over there scheming or whatever, we elected a new leader. You know, one who'll actually lead us."

"What?" They exclaimed. "Who?"

Meg nodded to someone standing behind him.

"Me," a familiar voice said. One that made their blood boil.

He turned, and there was Roshan, arms crossed, intimidating as ever despite fauns small stature.

"WHAT."

—raven speaks!

hey! i know i promised to update a few days ago, but i wasn't able to, sorry about that. also sorry that this chapter's so short, but i think it worked better that way. 

some questions that i'm curious for you to answer: why do you think the group re-elected a leader? how do you think damien will react to this change? how do you think roshan won the group's favor?

ok bye! next update will be longer! ily!