no tiger

“Fairy smut?” 

“Yes, but you’re probably spelling it with an i in your head and this is with an e.  F-a-e-r-i-e smut. More dignified.”

“I didn’t realize that’s what did it for you.”

“I never thought I liked fantasy,” she says, not taking the flirtbait. “But recently, I’ve been devouring it. I think there’s something to that. Like the world is so hard right now, we need to live in another one for a couple hours a day.”

I toy with a grape. “I get that.”

“And there’s something to be said, for talking animals, for rivers and mountains with magic powers.”