Finally, there was some emotion on her face: horror. “You turned down giving him the most powerful object in the kingdom because he wasn’t cute enough?” I gave a shrug. “His whole . . . dead . . . thing really wasn’t doing it for me.” She shoved me on the shoulder. “Fox! You’re prime evil, you know that?” “I can’t be that evil.” I laughed. “I chose you, didn’t I?”
