Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
Her mother asked, as she always did, “So, how’s the writing?”
Once upon a time, that question would have sent her into a spiral of qualifiers.
Oh, you know, just little things.
It’s not going anywhere.
I might go back to something more stable.
Today, she took a breath.
“It’s good,” she said. “I’m finishing a novel.”
Her mother blinked.
“Oh,” she said. “That’s… serious.”
“Yes,” Willa said. “It is.”
Her father leaned back, eyebrows up.
“Someone paying you for it yet?” he asked, not unkindly—just how he measured the world.