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Chapter 6 snippet!

Of Trust and Trickery

Here's a treat to tide you all over until I finish beating chapter 6 fully into submission 😌💖

"Share with me your thoughts on a week long festival commemorating your sacrifice," she ventures.

"No."

"What about a parade?"

"No."

"A monument?"

"Perfect."

Zelda pretends to miss the sarcasm. "Truly?"

"Come get me, Demise." The eye roll is audible. "No."

"Then—"

He interrupts. "Why not just suggest building a temple and insult me, already? I don't want my own holiday."

"What do you want?"

He flips onto his back, gliding across the tunnel towards her. Honeyed hair hanging down, arms behind his head—inversion doesn't lessen the audacity of that coy smile.

He extends lazy fingers to twiddle her nose. "Take a guess."