"Wouldn't work as a story," Ione responds immediately. "If she's happy and fine then there's not enough conflict from the standpoint of the viewpoint character. She needs to be struggling with her own need for violent sex, say, at the same time as she's trying to get him to want things for himself. Her character needs to develop to where she's competent to understand what she wants, and the end of the novel should show her successfully going after it and getting it."
"Which, again, was basically the plotline of Perverting Adan -"
"It's the plotline of any young adult novel with a female protagonist, who, at some point, has to learn the darkness of her own desires," Ione snaps at Paxti. "As you'd know if you read more than one book a year -"
"We can work with this, though," Paxti says. "Give me and Ione twenty minutes, and we'll come up with new plots for everyone's favorite romance books, with storylines that fit the new Cheliax."
"I'll slit her throat before we get two minutes in," says Ione. Ione also sees a much bigger problem with that idea, but she's curious whether Sevar will spot it on her own.