Mag/Siana | Lux & Livre | 2:30PM
Mag barely suppressed a cringe when she heard Siana's formal address. "You don't need to call me that," she said. "If you're so polite, I'll feel terribly rude by comparison. I did just greet you by your first name." She had never liked addressing fellow fighters by their surnames, unless that was their preference, and even then it rang a little stiff in her ears. And Mag and Siana had fought together, after all; it may be a little too much to ask that Siana call her Mag like everyone else did, but surely even Magnolia was better than Ms. Paget.
"It's about a young woman named Katherine who travels to Vath with some family friends, and receives an invitation to stay at a general's estate. She's read one too many Gothic novels, and imagines terrible things have happened in the estate." At its heart, Valendian Abbey was the typical love story favored by classical literature, but Layne Rosten's witty prose made it enjoyable. "Are you a Rosten fan?"