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She’d done it. It was a bird, not a human, but Sydney had still taken only a few mangled bones and made the creature whole. Brought it back to life.
Victor stared at the wall as if it were still a window. “He doesn’t know how patient you are,” he said. “Doesn’t know you like I do.” Eli cleaned the blood from his hand. “No,” he said softly. “No one ever has.”
“You are making it very hard to look the other way.” “Crime has gone down, as promised.” “No,” said Stell, “it’s simply been consolidated.”
“Get your things,” said Victor, rising to his feet. “We’re going to Merit.”
it's a trap!
She was done playing by other people’s rules. Done hiding. If you lived in the dark, you died in the dark. But stand in the light, and it was that much harder to make you disappear.
No, Dumont was either a gift or a trap. Victor was inclined to think the latter. But he couldn’t afford to stake his life on it.
well at least he knows it is a trap
“It doesn’t matter if you’re a human versus a human or a human versus an EO or an EO versus an EO. You do what you can. You fight, and you win, until you don’t.”
“You didn’t turn me over to EON,” observed Victor. “Why?” Dumont examined his hands. “You could have killed me up on the fifth floor. You didn’t.” It hadn’t been an act of mercy. There had simply been no point.
“When you think about it, it’s really all anyone ever wants. Once upon a time, power was determined by lineage—the age of blood. Then it was determined by money—the age of gold. But I think it’s time for a new age, Victor. The age of power itself.” “Let me guess,” said Victor. “I’m either with you or against you.” Marcella tsked. “Such black-and-white thinking.
omg my Swiftie brain lol
reputation is red and black, black and gold, and black and white
Eli hesitated. That wasn’t protocol. Cautiously, he did as he was told, expecting a dark hood to come down over his head. Instead, cold metal slid around his throat.
uh oh
Because Sydney wasn’t sure she should bring her sister back, even if she could.
A small metal rectangle, the faint impression of a grid. And he knew exactly what it was.
smart!
ONCE again, Marcella had chosen to wear gold.
reputation!
But as she dug her hands into her bomber jacket, she felt the small metal tin with Serena’s bones in one pocket, and the cool steel of the gun in the other. June obviously hadn’t thought to frisk her. After everything, she’d treated Sydney like a naive child.
An EO, working for EON.
dragged Dol back to life. Again. The dog’s chest heaved, and Syd sank back, gasping for air.
OMG THANK GOD
FOR five years, Victor Vale had lived in Eli’s head. First as a ghost, then as a phantom.
are you ready for it? 😂
"But if he's a ghost then I can be a phantom, holding him for ransom."
To think that, in a way, the two of them were working together again. Like old times—or like they could have been, perhaps. It was almost poetic,
Tortured and poetic?
Run, thought Victor, and he could see the response in Eli’s coiled frame. Chase me.
A monster. A devil in a white lab coat, deep-set eyes peering out from behind round glasses.
The white lab coats in the Fortnight music video
And then, for the first time in thirteen years, Eli Ever passed out.
13!
Eli was still built like a twenty-two-year-old quarterback. Victor was a gaunt thirty-five, and dying.
Eli is 22.... Taylor Swift's Red album. Also the QB? Fearless?
Victor is 35 and dying... Taylor Swift's TTPD album.
omg, what does Veronica know?!
EVERY end may be a new beginning, but every beginning had to end.
11:45 p.m. Fifteen minutes until midnight,
Midnights coffee cup? Not quite, but close lol
When Haverty’s serum suppressed his power, it had suppressed the episode, too. Reset something, deep inside Victor’s nervous system.
“God dammit, listen. If you kill me, you will make yourself EON’s number-one enemy, their primary target. They will never stop hunting you.” Victor smiled grimly. “I know.”
it is for Sydney 😭
Victor might be gone, but there was still that thread, tangling their lives. It had led Sydney to him once before, and it would lead her there again.
invisible string!
“April.”
JUNE
I just made the connection. June is Taylor! Changing into villains, goddesses, and fools. June is the 6th month! The reputation nods ARE intentional! But I think Taylor also read these books and got inspiration from them for TTPD. Full circle lol
“Good-bye,” she whispered, erasing the file—and herself—from the system.
I'm sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now.
