Sooner or later I need to do a chapter that flashes back to Aimee getting hired at the diner, or even just a chapter that shows how bad her anxiety can be. So far I’ve done more telling than showing, on that front. In the meantime, her safe-space won’t feel so safe, between Mercy’s 180 and Mary just casually claiming to be a werewolf…
The good news is, Daisy’s new assistant manager isn’t Rose, as she feared! I’m not sure she’d find this to be much better, though.
Something I can’t quite convey on the page – the way I hear the characters in my head, is Lily has song-bird like inflection to her voice, like Disney’s Snow White, or the good witch from The Wizard of Oz. She’s chipper nearly all the time. Mercy, on the other hand, sounds much more like Maleficent. Her words just ooze bitterness and spite. But on this page? Mercy’s doing an impression of her sister (Lily) that’s so spot-on, for people who know her I doubt it could be anything other than unsettling.
Just a few weeks shy of its one-year anniversary, this chapter is finally complete!
And with that, this chapter is done! Although it’s less “the end”, and more “to be continued”. Aimee’s story might be finished for now, but Mercy’s is just starting!
You gotta give Aimee credit – she resisted the very correct instinct to flee in terror, so she could do her job.
Crisis averted, at least until someone screws up that thing’s order!