To celebrate Halloween, Irk and Char have written a two-part special to celebrate the reason for the season (of Goth Christmas). It's set thirteen years before the Peacock King Trilogy, which means a few characters are going to be really young or still in training. It also means you don't have to read up to the most recent PK Trilogy chapter to enjoy it! Normal Peacock King updates resume next Tuesday. Until then, have fun, and remember that reading it in the daylight won't make you any safer.

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Erynn
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It's a dark and stormy night, which is to say that it's dark here inside this badly-lit bar and there's so much tramping about from the dancing that it's a bit thunderous. It's a stretch as a setup, but I'm a bit bummed right now. Because of my mood, the real thunderclouds are on my face. I can tell because my friend Gerude plunks down beside me and says: