Perfidia - World Editing 2

She was still penning the finishing touches when he returned to her office ready to go, and she hadn't slept in over twenty-four hours, but everything was close enough that she'd have time to prepare the rest on the fly.

It started perfectly fine. He distrusted the harpy sisters like she expected, he beat them even easier than she expected, and he didn't even kill them off which meant she could reuse them instead of having to create new enemies for later. But he smelled a rat with Olliebollen and Perfidia was willing to admit maybe that was her fault, she didn't operate with as much subtlety as she could've—blame her tight deadline—and everything quickly went off the rails. Jay didn't want to rescue the princess. Perfidia couldn't believe it. John Coke never needed a compelling reason to rescue a princess, or slay a dragon, or wage a war against an evil army.

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[7] Form Specifications Rather Than Formal