An example of me getting a bit rambly during the previous week’s dictation session. This got cut because Maxim’s cousin Victor interjected himself into the conversation earlier than I originally thought. And it’s not entirely in character for Maxim to try to shield Chloe to that extent.

“They’ll blame my wolves,” Bastian kept repeating.

“I’m coming with you,” I told Maxim.

“From what Bastian here says, this will be an ugly sight,” Maxim warned me.

“Nothing I haven’t seen before,” I told him.

“No, but that doesn’t mean you need to see it again.”

“Which of the two of us was briefly a werewolf?” I asked him teasingly.