#Chapter 109 – To the Temple

I gasp, delighted, clasping my hands beneath my chin as I beam at my ghostly handmaid, who is also kind of my boyfriend now. “I would love pancakes!” “Well then you’d better conjure up some ingredients, Princess,” Antons says, crossing to me and slipping an arm around my shoulder. Faiza snarls at him, deeply displeased at this clear dismissal of her newly-shackled situation. “Can you seriously make them?” I ask, looking at Anton wide-eyed, wondering at this mysterious new cooking talent. “No,” he says, grinning down at me. “But I’m betting Laila can.” “What is a pan-cake?” Laila asks, frowning over at us, still sipping her coffee. I snap my head to her with a frown. “If you make them with fish, Laila, I’ll never forgive you –“ “Can we…come back together for a second here?” Orion asks on a sigh, crossing his arms and looking between me and Anton and Laila like we’re very exhausting. “What…what precisely is the plan here?” “We’ll talk plan over pancakes!” I declare like the