Summer of 2023 I started working on some of my own ideas a little more. I began work on worldbuilding and some short stories that won't ever see the light of day. And I'd updated Grace, my goat girl's design. But as I was moving in September to a place with easier rent, I took the time to start messing around with a possible cast.

This is Theia. I wanted her to be a sort of spiritual negotiator. I wanted her to be sexy but be able to look mysterious. So I thought of the catsuit and fold-up cloak. The idea is that grace travels with her as a sort of mentor and companion in the world outside of the grove Grace found herself trapped in. She's got some questions about the nature of a curse grace has and she does lurid experiments on her willing captive in order to tease out the latent relationship between emotion and magic in this setting, as it exists for Grace. I did OK. But I think I need to re-boot and expand the cast to get myself unstuck with where I currently am in how I imagine the plot.