Ask Mal and Evie

What is your perfect date?

I would say probably a moonlit night under the stars where it's just you and that dreamy mystery guy. You guys are looking at the stars, maybe have a snack like peaches or something fruity, and then you just kind of accidentally find each other's hands and meet eyes. A few beats of silence and then you're drawing closer and closer together until you both take the flying leap into the other's lips for the first time, fireworks exploding in your mind as you revel in the connection.

I don't know about all of that, but I want to go skydiving.

How is that the perfect date?!

Because it's like the ultimate trust fall!

But no one's going to be there on the ground to catch you!

Well, I'm going to go skydiving and Ben can catch me when I fall.

That's not going to happen.

Do you think he'll go skydiving with me then?

No. I think he's got better sense than to go skydiving with you.

Oh... Will you go skydiving with me? I bet if me and you went, it'd be really fun.

I think I've got better sense than to go skydiving with you, too.

Come on, E! There's a parachute and everything, so it's safe!

Mal, has it occurred to you what could happen if the parachute didn't deploy? You could fall to your death!

Oh, please, I'm a dragon! I'd catch both you and me before we hit the ground.

I just don't think I'm interested in that kind of thrill and the minor possibility that you could miss me.

I would never let anything happen to you, E. You know that.

I know...

So? Wanna go skydiving?

Still no. Why don't we just go diving without the sky?

Huh... That sounds pretty cool, too. Let's do it!

Thank you to @iluvrainclouds for the ask! I've really been enjoying writing this book, and I hope you all have been as well!