Author's note: this is from Seraphina's point of view
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I was unexpectedly nervous about my dinner with Nox.
Part of me felt like I'm cheating on Duke by doing this, and another part was telling me that Nox and Duke are one and I should stop separating them.
I repeated in my mind that if Duke was not poisoned as a child, Nox and Duke would be best friends, collaborating and enhancing each other.
The best thing I could do was to help them establish that connection the two of them should have. It was logical.
Duke will be watching us, and I knew that will keep Nox on the edge, but there was no way for Nox to suppress Duke fully without Duke's consent and I didn't want that to happen anyway.
I hoped that I knew what I was doing, and I prayed that this will work.
