Chris and Imani’s Goodbye
While Prepotente makes a show of counting out the bribe, Chris Andrews turns from the wheel and puts a hand against Imani's face. She tosses Jacobus to Elle, takes his hands in both of hers and presses them to her cheek, and the room goes quiet. He says her cheek is not as warm as usual; she tells him he is wrong. She refuses to call it goodbye and instead extracts a promise: if he ever sees a way out of the dungeon while he is still in this body, he takes it, he runs, he does not look back, and he lives — even if he is the only one, it will have been worth it. He answers that he might turn back into a rock, or into a dog, and she says she does not care what he is. Her butterfly wings close forward around them both like a cocoon, and when they open the two of them are pressed together. He tells her he loves her, always has, and that no matter what comes next that is the most important part. Then he steps forward, turns, waves, and drops through the floor.
Book 8 appearances
- Chapter 85 — Chris and Imani say goodbye in the middle of the gilded casino, her wings closing around them both, before he drops into the stasis portal; Imani spends the rest of the chapter quietly crying while Elle rubs her back.
Related entries
- Chris Andrews 2 (Character)
- Imani C (Character)
- Elle McGibbons (Character)
- Jacobus (Creature)
- Britney (Character)
- The Nothing Spot Portal (Event)
- The In-Between (Lore)
- The Desperado Casino (Place)
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