Cecily: You’re building quite a fan base.

Delilah: Excellent. Wait. What? Amongst who? Satanists?

Cecily: Everyone. Your darkness is a lovely foil to Cecily’s sparkling naïveté.

Delilah: Wonderful. But how do you know?

Cecily: People write me and tell me.

Delilah: Interesting. I guess without this face, the darkness becomes a lot easier to accept. How are they regarding Alexander?

Cecily: They’re either Team Cecily or Team Alexander.

Delilah: I never expected your writing to get ‘teamed’.

Cecily: I am polarizing.

Delilah: Yes. But I assumed fans of your prose would deride any hint of group identification.