Marianna and the Dragon

“Come with us to the party,” they said. “It’ll be fun,” they said. “You don’t see anything but your work, but you need to build relationships—come on, you’re not a little girl anymore,” they said. So what? How did that end for me? Right—nothing good. I ended up in someone else’s body, sitting in some incomprehensible castle, trying to find money just to survive. And my fiancé threatens to arrive any day now. And I want to kill him before he even gets here.