Chapter 48 – Baby Bat

• “You have courage, Princess,” the God of Death says, taking a moment to look me over.
• As he does a streak of blue flies past him into the darkness of the terrace and I take a deep breath, reaching for Anton’s fur as he dashes to my side, twining my fingers in his blue light even as I don’t look down, keeping my eyes precisely where they are. Relief floods me to have him close – my friend, my Goddess-sent protector.
• I mean, he’s still incorporeal and I don’t know what he could do against a God. But it’s nice to have him near.