Wild West - Chapter 2 - Part 4 - 5 minute freewrite challenge

“Nobody knows for sure. The dome might hold, or it might not, your guess is as good as mine. See, when a deity such as Fishnick dies, the power remains within the body until harvested. Imagine it like when you’re trying to open a mason jar of pickles. It’s hard to open the lid, sure, but once you do, you still need to take the pickle out, which further fortifies the reason I needed direct descendants of Hessner. Once you kill Fishnick, one of you has to harvest His power, or you can split it half and half if you want. Then, in case the dome persists, you need to come back outside and allow me to harvest it. If the dome falls, well… Let’s suppose it doesn’t.”

“Wait, you want the dome to persist? Why?” Tom was still feeling bad for what he had said, so James did the speaking.

“If the dome falls the others will know Fishnick died and we will all rush to site the same instant it falls. They will want to harvest His power, and trust me, they couldn’t care less whether the corpse they are harvesting from is yours or Fishnick’s. It’ll be a bloodbath, a full-out war between all the remaining 4 of us.”

“So if the dome doesn’t fall and we go rogue, we are then your enemy number 1?”

“Exactly.”

“One more thing, do we need to die for you to harvest the power from us?”