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October 24 - November 4, 2023
“You mean to tell me that you waltzed in here with that sanctimonious attitude and expected to get this for free? Are you just discourteous or do you have a forbearance disorder? Is your brain a miniscule raisin?”
“He could kill you with a spoon.”
"Cause it will hurt more you twit"
“Well, when you’re ready to talk, my door is always open, my cookies are always warm, and my tea kettle is always hot.”
No story that started with murder had a happy ending.
“Hmm.” Palmer nodded, thinking that through. “Why? Did it attack you? Did you provoke it?” He looked her over, eyeing her forehead in particular. “You seem the sort to provoke an innocent creature,” he said, more to himself.
“You can learn a person’s whole life story from a tone,”
“Are you drinking coffee? You shouldn’t do that, Your Highness. It’s how the bravest humans poison themselves.”
I am a brave brave human
Thirty minutes later, three assassins sat around the café sipping warm pumpkin spice lattes and flipping the pages of their novels quietly.
Every city has its monsters. Every town has its secrets. Every neighbourhood has its history and the unconfirmed dangers that lay sleeping below the ground.
“Why does everything of the sinister and magical sort always happen in a library?”
They beat him, only by a miracle of the sky deities, with claws and needles and wills of iron.
Kate winced at his breath that smelled like chewed appetizers and a compulsive need to assert dominance at inappropriate times.
Stop letting the few bad days ruin all your good ones!”
“Your hands tremble when you’re afraid,” Cress said from behind her. “They’re trembling now.” A pause. “Also, these moving stairs are terrifying.”
himself and made a face as he looked it over. “You must pay all of this coin?” Kate nodded and laid her head down on the table. “I can’t stare at that screen anymore.” “Wait a faeborn minute.” Cress’s fist dropped to the tabletop, and Kate jumped. “You must pay taxes on the coin you earn, and then you must pay taxes again when you spend the coin you earn, and then you must pay taxes on—” “It doesn’t make sense. Don’t try to understand it,” Kate advised, sitting back. “This is preposterous.”
Mood
“And what in the name of the sky deities are these?” Cress plucked out one of the chocolate chips to find it squishy. He made a horrified face. “What is it, Mor?! Why does it squeeze like a bug?” “It’s a raisin.” Kate appeared and took a cookie for herself.
Dude😂
“This is human trickery of the highest sort!”
Poor raisins
“I’ll deliver you to the human medical building,” Cress told Lily. “But make no mistake, Lily Baker, if you ever trick a fairy into eating a raisin cookie again, the sky deities will show no mercy. I hope you realize that what happened here today was punishment for that wretched cookie I ate this morning.”
