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Read: The Dragon’s Soulmate is a Mushroom Princess! vol 1 (Hanami Nishine, poporucha): Light novel, the main character has been so emotionally abused by the fiance who just dumped her that she doesn’t believe anyone can love her, the prince who keeps trying to spend time with her must be insane to appreciate her objectively disgusting power to sprout mushrooms on things, etc. Fortunately this is a light novel, so romance therapy >> antidepressants (which haven’t been invented). Also there are interludes from the PoV of the summoned mushrooms.

Written: 259, but I don’t like how this scene is going in this new draft. Maybe my refusal to engage in second drafts all these years has been well-founded! Or maybe I’m just, you know, a bad writer.