Chapter 19: Ashok
The awesome thing about having a co-Queen, Ashok learned, was that Miranda was happy to put the tiara on and represent the title. She’d still been at the hotel after the pageant when Raima had taken that rock to the face, and she made sure that word got spread. Raima was a hero, and her beer was free until further notice.
“I don’t know about ‘hero,’” Ashok said.
“You did more than a lot of people would have done.”
“I got hit in the face with a rock.”
“I mean before that, and you know it. You rescued Amber.”
“Kind of by accident.”
“Will you just let me buy you a beer?”
And so Ashok didn’t cut his ties with the drag community, but he did take a break from going out in face. If he arrived or sat with Midnight, he was quite easily recognizable, but many of Santa Fe’s
