The equivalent encounter in chapter 8 is nowhere near as romantic

It’s Daphne’s family ties that have got her entangled in  the Council’s plan for her marriage. But neither the Council nor Daphne knows just how complicated her family really is. Daphne finds herself confronted by two improbable allies in “The unexpected sides of courtship and marriage,” chapter 8 of To Ride the Lightning Bolt, my weekly serial story about a demigoddess who wishes people wouldn’t interfere in her life so much.