Love in Banishment
This is the final chapter in Part 2: Fall of the Titans, and next week is the first chapter of Part 3: Rise of the Gods. All the chapters in all three parts are divisible by three!
Part 1: Fall of the Oracle = Chapters 1-6, Part 2: Fall of the Titans ran from Chapters 7-12, and the final part runs through Chapters 13-21 plus the Epilogue.
This is a quieter chapter with a more domestic feel but it’s a turning point for Katy, building on her encounter with Myrddin and things she’s been thinking about since then.
My stepmother-in-law requested that someone have a pet in my books, so Layla has two. One is a greyhound and one is a cat – both are rescues. I thought that would also give Katy a bit of normalcy and domesticity that she’s been lacking, and the fact that Layla is good with rescue animals translates across to her being good with/for Katy, in that she is a ‘safe’ person for her to be around, calming and comfortable.
In the original draft I worked on Ricky/Layla as a dynamic and a few things didn’t work so well, but there is a deleted scene up on Ko-Fi for members. I played with a lot of different narrative plot threads, and these scenes use one that was scrapped after the beta version.
Deleted Scene 01 is here, Deleted Scene 02 is here.
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