Pseudonym for the Devil

Back in the saddle with today's two scenes of the troll story. Here's today's clip:

Tom flung the card on the table. “Far be it for me to suggest that the business card isn’t legit, but doesn’t everyone know the devil uses Nick Scratch as an alias. I mean, if this really were the Prince of Darkness, couldn’t he have come up with a better pseudonym?”

Quartz picked up the card. There it was, the infernal magic she couldn’t pin down early. “It’s not a question of pseudonyms, Tom. Your choices are often made for you when you are a character in a story.”

“Huh?”

“Nick Scratch is what the locals call him. Or Old Nick. I don’t imagine the devil could walk into a Norwegian town and do anything else.”

That scene actually wrote itself pretty easy, which felt good. Later, I finish the chapter up with Sigfried and Sigurda talking to Janetta. Looking forward to writing that one.

Here's the scene count. Notice we're one scene less, as I combined a couple of Manuel's scenes.

20 / 52 words. 38% done!

Mirrored from Writer Tamago.