Stacia Stark

Yeah.

Yeah.

Moved on.

Oh, I reckon it's false proximity.

Because...

They don't necessarily need to be enemies, but anyone who doesn't want to work together for any kind of reason, like making them work together is always really fun.

Well, I mean, that is forced proximity too.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think it might be.

It just gives you so much more, like, so much tension.

You can play with it in so many different ways, especially if it's, like, romantic.

But even if it's not romantic, you know, like, in Kingdom of Lies, like, Madinia doesn't really want to be there a lot of the time.

Do you know what I mean?

And so it's even fun with friends, right?

No, they definitely come about naturally.

I think sometimes they'll come from themes that I want to explore and

And I also really enjoy like taking a trope and twisting it in different ways, right?

So like seeing how you can do your own spin on things or like kind of almost edging someone with a trope.

So, you know, like in Kingdom of Lies, I have, no, This Vicious Dream, which is Medenia's book.

Oh, it's out.