'Well, here goes nothing.' If Celeste had been wearing boots instead of strappy black heels, she would have been shaking in them.
'Don’t worry too much,' Artemis replied, 'I’m here to support you! What could go wrong?' But her tone gave away that the beast was not as confident as she’d like her human counterpart to believe.
'Why do I feel like we keep having this conversation?'
'Quit stalling and just go in already!'
The invitation she’d received instructed her to arrive at the palace greenhouse promptly at 4 o’clock, but after entering the gardens five minutes prior to the appointed time, Celeste had to stop to steel her nerves. The greenhouse loomed in the distance, but she couldn’t bring her feet to move towards it.
She was just a lowly desk worker! A capable one, but still–how wa
