Baal by Laura Greenwood

Author:Laura Greenwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781773575360
Publisher: Naughty Nights Press LLC

CHAPTER 10

Chelsea

I half expected the weather to be bad when I returned to the underworld, but it was far from it. In general, it was nothing like I expected it to be down here.

Baal smiled widely the moment he saw me, causing my stomach to erupt into a fluttering mess. It was going to be hard working with him for the rest of the week when he was having this effect on me. Or at least, it would be hard to do that while trying to keep my hands to myself.

“Ready for day two?” he asked.

“I think so,” I said. “But that depends if we have a day of Kuakets ahead of us.”

He let out a good-natured laugh. “There’s certainly mischief coming our way, but it’s the good-natured kind. Unless you have anything against foxes.”

“Foxes?” I racked my brain to try and work out which god that might be. “Is it some kind of kitsune god?”

“Close, actually. Huxian.”

“I don’t know them.”

“She’s a Chinese deity who is said to be the embodiment of all fox spirits. If it helps, I do think she has multiple tails.”

“So I was close with saying a kitsune.”

“Yes, but kitsune are Japanese,” he responded.

I nodded. “So no referring to her that way. Got it.” This was suddenly a lot more complicated than I first thought. I wasn’t sure what I’d expected when he’d told me we’d been photographing gods, but I certainly hadn’t thought about precisely who was going to show up. And I’d vastly underestimated precisely how many gods there actually were.

A flash of orange burst out of the tree line, followed by three more. I assumed they were foxes, but they were moving far too quickly for me to take note of.

A woman appeared behind them, moving with in-built grace that seemed fox-like even from this distance. Even if Baal hadn’t already told me what she was, I would have been able to guess.

She approached and gave the two of us a peaceful smile.

“Thank you for coming, Huxian,” Baal said.

“Thank you for the invitation,” she responded in a melodic voice. She shook her head back, the beautiful long dark hair falling behind her as she did.

I stared at her, unable to tear my gaze away as I thought about how wonderful she was going to be to photograph. There was something captivating about her that I just knew was going to translate well onto camera.

“This is Chelsea,” Baal said.

“A pleasure,” Huxian responded. “I’m afraid that my foxes don’t take direction very well, but Horus assured me it wouldn’t be an issue.”

“We can work around them,” I promised.

Baal smiled and nodded, not seeming in the slightest part annoyed that I was speaking for both of us.

“Excellent.” She turned around and scanned the surrounding oasis. “Is there somewhere you’d like me?”

“Chelsea?” Baal asked.

“Erm, I think that depends. I’m sorry, I don’t know if it’s rude to ask, but what colour are your tails?”

“What colour would you like them to be?” she asked.

My eyes widened. “We can choose?”

She nodded.

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