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“And he thought he could march up to Albert Grey’s front door and demand things of him?” “He was used to people doing what he asked of them.” Clemmie gave a laugh that was all teeth and claws. “He was the Chancellor.” Sera spun around. “The Chancellor? Chancellor Bennet? Is your grandfather? You’re a Bennet?”
😱😱😱
Then Luke took her hand, and she held tight, and the jigsaw of their fingers fitting together felt like a lifeline pulling her out of the water.
“You shouldn’t come with me,” Sera said to Luke. She’d tried saying it before and had been entirely ignored, but she had to try one last time. “If I’m spotted, at least you won’t be involved—” “Let me be very clear,” Luke interrupted her. “I’m not letting you out of my sight.” Against all odds, Sera grinned. “You know, I never thought the stern, sexy academic thing would work on me, but it really does.”
😏😂
“It was, in every possible way, the literal opposite of fun,” Luke said emphatically.
His eyes were flames of the fiercest, iciest cerulean. She had forgotten that the hottest part of a fire burns blue.
😍😍😍
“That was inspiring,” Matilda said admiringly. “If I wasn’t gay and your grandma, I’d be very attracted to you right about now.”
Out of context would be crazy 😂
This is the life I wanted. This life of contentment and unexpected excitement, of little everyday joys, where I don’t just get to be myself but also get to be embraced as myself. It’s miraculous.”
“Imagine, then, how impossibly lucky I feel that not only have I found the life I always dreamed of, but I’ve found you too.”
😭😍😭😍😭
The undead rooster was in the snow too, just a few feet away from Jasmine and Matilda, kicking gentle flurries into the air. Copying their exact movements. Dancing.
Awh Roo-Roo 😭😍
Like he had become nothing more than tin.
Owww😫💔
He stood abruptly. “Howard, you’re a very good friend and I promise I’ll see you soon, but right now, right this minute, I’m going home.”
😍😍😍
“A knight can’t protect other people if he doesn’t protect himself too,” Sera said gently.
He gave her a wry look. “Is this from that time you got to know the Black Knight in the biblical sense?”
💀😂
Because they did see, at long last. Each other, yes, but also, by that act of looking, they saw their own selves too. He, the Tin Man who recognised his own heart at last, and she, not a shadow or a ghost of what she once was but alchemy, a phoenix who had gone up in flames again and again and yet, each time, had outlasted the fire.
Nicholas trailed off as his eyes moved past her, landed on Luke in her bed, came back to her, noticed that she was a bit rumpled and glowy and wearing very little, and, finally, went hilariously, impossibly wide. He immediately clapped his hand over them. “OH MY GOD! MY EYES!”
😂😂😂
Sera closed her eyes. And found entire galaxies of stars waiting for her.
😭💜😭💜😭
“Well, if you insist on sending him to that woefully conventional school,” Clemmie went on, “I ought to at least give him a proper magical education as well. Posy too.” Now Sera laughed. “Clemmie, I would entrust them to literally anyone but you.”
💀💀💀
Francesca just looked at her. It was the pity in her face that gave it away.
DAMMIT CLEMMIE 😡
“I don’t like to say I told you so, Albert, but I did tell you so,” Sera replied. “Right here, fifteen years ago, I told you you’d rue that day. And here you are. Rueing.”
Albert gave him a contemptuous look, flicked a lazy hand, and turned Nicholas to stone.
NOOOOO 😫😡
Roo-Roo flew through the air and crashed into the stone slabs of the patio. Jasmine covered her mouth, stifling a cry.
Baby Roo-Roo 😭
She needed him to not be able to stop her when she cast the only spell that mattered.
NO!!
Or was she? Magic for family. Magic for home. Wasn’t she really just trading one kind of magic for another?
Matilda did not seem impressed by this argument. “The fact that I am quite wildly in love with her does not preclude me from recognising she can be wrong.”
“Clemmie,” said Luke, sounding both highly entertained and highly appalled, “won.” “Clemmie. Clemmie. Is the new Chancellor.” Luke sighed. “I keep checking the sky for flying pigs, but no luck yet.”
WHAT???
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Like that one solitary star Sera saw every time she closed her eyes, they were a reminder that she would never be abandoned by the magic she had loved so much. Not the magic of hygge spells and enchanted cabbages, no, but the magic of a lit window on a dark night, the magic of the wild green land, the magic of birds’ nest boy hair and trampolines and hot tea and glacier eyes lit with laughter, the magic of living, living, living. That was the magic that made the wildflowers bloom.
Ok v sweet but seriously?! She didn't get her magic back?! 😫💔
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