“The video game came out before it was a show,” Sasha countered. I rolled my eyes. As the real bookworm among this group, I decided to speak on behalf of the books. “Actually, it’s a fantasy book series written by Andrzej Sapkowski.” The three of them faced me. Sasha sighed, annoyed. Doris snarled as if she smelled something bad while Jane gave me a hand signal to stop talking. “Fun fact,” I continued, “our cat here is really named Princess Ciri, after a character from the book.” That was a lie. Princess was just plain Princess, but Teresa wasn’t here to argue. “What does that have to do with anything?” Sasha asked. I suppressed another eye roll. Other than showing off my book knowledge and defending the Polish author, I suppose it meant nothing. Jane repeated today’s special, “The b

