Stacia Stark

And it was only after I was sort of wrapping up Kingdom of Lies that I kind of was like, oh, this could be a really fun world and then had the idea for our vow and how that world would work.

Yeah, because, you know, I mean what I love about fantasy is like I could take some of that but also like –

In my world, it's like, it's magic that allows that to happen, right?

Magic makes it so easy.

Yeah.

But the naval battle was one of my favorite scenes to write, for sure.

And just thinking about what it would have been like back then to see.

I don't think they ever flooded the Coliseum, but they did smaller ones, for sure.

Did they?

I might be wrong.

I'm not a historian.

So there was a scene kind of after the midpoint, nearer to the end, the circus scene with the horses where we see the populace begin to chant about taxes.

And that's based on something that really happened.

And so I was like, I already had the idea for that scene.

Like I knew what I wanted to happen.

But then having like seen that and kind of expanding it, I feel like sometimes it's like you'll see a nugget of something in a book and expand it.

And then other times I'll have the idea and be sort of flicking through a book and be like, oh my gosh, that's like,

That's perfect.

I feel like he's just like a lot.

Do you know what I mean?