breathedout | Sunday (more than) Six (Reply)

Since I couldn't post about this before the reveals, and I similarly can't post about what I'm working on now because it's for another fest, have a snippet from one of the scenes I mentioned earlier, in my latest Killing Eve story:

"Where have you been all afternoon?" [Anna] said, dropping cubes of potato into the bowl. She actually smiled a little, at Villanelle, and jerked her chin down at the notebook, which was—spun away from Anna, toward Villanelle. It wasn't a recipe, anyway.

"Sightseeing," Villanelle told her, as she read: I am wearing a microphone; she is listening. "When they excavated Zaryadye there were arrows still stuck in the walls, did you know? For nine hundred years."

Villanelle read: She thinks I am still in love with you, in Anna's neat hand, but that I will inform on you in exchange for a new life. Thunk, thunk went the knife through the potatoes. "Yes," Anna said. "The children love the exhibit where you learn to load a gun."

With enough time we could convince her you deserve one, too, the note read.

"Psht," said Villanelle. "I already know how to load a gun."