#sofia (hbfm)

Chapter 13

“I don’t hate you. I just believe that people should pay their dues. I had to, yet you walked in and were treated like you owned the place.”

She's not wrong.

Whoops, do I like Sofia now?

Charm just flowed out of him the way most people sweat in the sun on a hot August day in Tennessee. It got hot in Vegas, like 124 degrees hot, but it was a dry heat and let me tell you it was not as sweltering as a humid ninety degrees in Tennessee. You will sweat buckets without even lifting a finger the moment you step outside.

I had to read this and so do you.

Also, I live in Arizona, and the weather is pretty similar in Vegas. It only gets that hot in the middle of July, and probably only just for a few days. This is why most people stay inside.

Don't @ me.

I laughed a little to myself, smiled, and waved back. I then turned around and disappeared out of sight.

Chapter 13 summary: One day when Zade goes in, she's confronted by Zeb. He's never liked her, and he makes some bizarre comments about how she “doesn't take the craft seriously”. For a moment, I think that he's talking about magic, but he seems to be talking about the show. Zade asks him for help, and he accepts this, and leaves.

Zade then hears Sofia singing in the dressing room, and compliments her voice. She asks why Sofia doesn't like her, and Sofia spells it out for her: because you show up and people trip over themselves to give you shit that you don't deserve. Zade then says that she's been working on an illusion with Charles, and would you please sing while I perform it? Sofia agrees.

Later, Zade and Mac go to a park after the show is over for the night. He asks for info about her background, and she starts to tell him some stuff. But then she says that she would prefer stuff like that be told naturally, rather than directly asked and then given in an infodump. Which... fair enough, for a story. Nobody wants to see this stuff within the span of a single page.