My Blood Wizard System
Seras slides off the piano bench.
Seras:
“We’ve got your back, storm queen.
Fire, fangs, foxes, ghosts—the Forty-Eighth doesn’t stand a chance.”
Holly raises her ghost glass.
Holly:
“To the Moroi Queen and her misfit court.
May the Forty-Eighth choke on her own reflection.”
We drink.
The ghosts cheer.
The night goes on.
And for one heartbeat, in a basement full of dead gangsters and living legends, the struggles feel a little less heavy.