The girls laughed. Calypso's came first and loudest, warm and open, and even Aria's lips cracked into a grin she tried to smother with her hand.
The chat agreed.
Now twenty-seven million women had just watched the feared Shadow Monarch drag her clearly incestuous teenage daughter away from following her brother to bed, and the collective response was a mixture of disbelief and secondhand embarrassment that only deepened their investment.
It wasn't something anyone had expected to witness on this stream, and yet it had become the most entertaining thing they'd seen all day, which was saying a lot considering the Kaiju fight that preceded it.
Alice was quickly gaining sympathizers, too. The little sister who loved her big brother far too much was becoming an underdog nobody had planned on rooting for, and the fangirl chat was quietly, chaotically split on the matter.
Quick footsteps echoed down the corridor.
