"Sounds awful and like nothing I'd ever want to attend. Demon parties sound better." Which was saying something since those were mostly just fighting, drinking, and other things that landed more on the hedonistic scale. "Except that last bit, everything involving demons is just an excuse to put a real or metaphorical knife in someone's back." That was what being a demon seemed to be boil down to: making alliances only to eventually betray them to take the power for yourself. Each time they talked about the similarities she was struck by how much his mage society sounded like a group of demons. Maybe that made sense given that some demons in her world were just mages whose souls became corrupted enough to transform into demons.

"Really? Because you seem really defensive." Which just gave her more reasons to tease him. He really did set himself up for it. It was appreciated how easily he gave her openings to keep teasing him! It was almost like he secretly liked it.

"I'm sure of that too." The huff only egged her on even more. Though his follow up comment actually did get more of a serious expression from her. She closed her eyes and then looked away from him to hide the emotions flitting through her face. "They did. My brother has always been protective of me. He took my death very hard." Harder than she could have ever imagined. "Strangely when I came back older Kitty became my closest friend." What a weird relationship to go through. Yet...from her voice she clearly missed the other young woman.

"What sort of book?"