Trickery (Curse of the Gods, #1)

by Jaymin Eve

Glossary

Haha....im doomed

I just … had a lot of accidents. I didn’t mean accidents like I ate glue and then peed myself on a regular basis.

Believe me when i say that wasnt my first thought

I was the embarrassment of the village, the village fool, the cursed child that they all secretly wanted to be rid of.

Oh

There wasn’t a thing in the world that she couldn’t do. Well … except for becoming a sol, or a god. That was pretty much impossible.

We shall see about that now hehehe

“Why was the stove hot?” “There was something inside it. I thought if I made it hot, it would crawl out.” “With the door shut?” “Whoops.”

Wut

Emmy winced, and then closed the door again. “Guess we’re having rat for dinner.”

D:

“They wouldn’t even let me graduate.” “They did, though.” “Yeah but only because I broke into the records office and made myself a star pupil.”

Pffffft

“You graduated above everyone else. Almost above me, even, and they couldn’t do anything about it.” “Nope.”

LMAOO

“As you all know, we’ve reached the end of another life-cycle, and will be sending off two of our best to attend to the sols of Blesswood.”

Is she now top two???

before presenting us to the village people. They weren’t even clapping. They were sitting there, mouths hanging open,

OH NO

and punching the sacred balls of one of the sacred sols. Don’t think it couldn’t happen, because I was up to five cases this life-cycle alone.

LMAOOOOOO

and if my eighteen life-cycles had taught me anything, it was that nothing ever changed.

I weep. She could have been 21 or smthn

“It’s your own fault, Will. What did I tell you about walking?” “That I should leave it to the experts,” I mumbled, trying to sound chastised.

LMAOOOOOO

or accidentally stumbling into untamed bullsen territory. Pfft. Been there, done that, wasn’t even that close to dying.

GURL

I never really believed Teacher Hardy’s theory. He ate sardines for lunch. It’s never good to trust a person who eats sardines.”

Im ded

Dwellers were great at lots of things: toiling from sunup to sundown; turning three figs into a pie for the entire village; and even dancing around a fire after copious amounts of liquor.

who stood a foot taller than me, had better hair than me, and was altogether much more beautiful and intimidating than me. Not that I was comparing.

OK

Our bags were piled together with a bunch of other bags, and I kept an eye on them because I was not losing those pots.

LMAO girl same

I was stepping into what would be Emmy’s home for the rest of her life, and what would be my home for probably about half a sun-cycle. Maybe even an entire sun-cycle.

This is so funny

all of them looking around, trying to figure out who had knocked them down. I was doing it too, looking around with a confused expression on my face … because survival was kind of important.

Im ded

My hair wasn’t even pulled back, instead hanging in a mass of scruffy, white-blond curls.

Wait....i thought it was tawny?? Its taken me 6 days to get this far. Trying to read between tasks lol

But it was everything; it was beautiful and proudly formidable. That was where I belonged. In that place of unforgiving, empty terrain.

O.o

“What are you doing in the male dorm?” “Exploring my sexuality.” I leaned against the cart, propping my elbow, wiping my expression into something neutral. “How am I doing?”

The writing for this mc is def SOMETHING ELSE

to explain why I hadn’t done the home-reading Teacher Harris had given me, only to accidently put the entire village into a state of lock-down. Turns out, ‘my mother caught a plague’ has a few holes in it, as far as excuses go.

You are a chaotic mess

And I mean … what a life goal, right? What with all the cleaning and not-being-seen-or-smelt thing. And I mentioned the nipples, didn’t I? Life goals.

I feel like this book would be a bangin audiobook

Talk was my thing, and I was working at perfecting it.

I can FEEL the chatterbox in her chaotic narrration. I respect that

Willa was going to get one over on them. Yes, I now spoke about myself in the third person. It was that kind of mission.

Definitely would be a good sassy audiobookk

Yael was only an inch away, leaning into me. “Raise my ranking,” he ordered softly. I felt the heavy roll of his power rushing over me, carrying on the tenor of his voice.

The ironside vibes are immaculate

A throat cleared behind us, and Yael said distinctly, “There better be a reason you’re hugging them and not me. And you’d better start sharing it around.”

Omg yes! The personalities (insert good soup emoji)

I gulped, crawling away from the edge and then pulling up to my feet. Those bastard sols.

I want to point out. They didnt say how to get back......

It hadn’t been the same cave, but a new cave altogether. “You were right, Trickery. She did get sent to the banishment cave.”

LMAOOOOOOO

He pulled me up and then tossed me behind him. I thought I was going to land on my ass and probably break a few things,

Ohh my

“No.” I crossed my arms. It was hard to look impassive and intimidating while being cradled like a baby,

LMAO

He pulled his head up, the smirk back in place, and continued walking.

Theodore energy and im HERE FOR IT

I was pretty sure that he had just reached into my chest and pulled out my poor little dweller heart. Now it was laying somewhere behind us. In the dirt. Beating pathetically.

LMAOOOO

“I’m not ready to die, yet. I still don’t know how to cook, and I’d like to punch someone in the face not by accident. Just once.”

She is so funny

Someone to find the Chaos student and protect them until they finally reach the threshold of power.

I squint

“We don’t really want another Chaos. I mean, no offence, Rau, but it’s pretty fucking exhausting.”

I squint some more

before I could say anything, the three sols around me were up on their feet and standing in front of me. I understood why the moment the red robes came into view.

Bruuuuther

This time, it wasn’t a laugh. It was a growl.

Thy might as well be alphas lol

I could almost ignore the pain. It had dulled so much that I barely even noticed it anymore.

Uhoh.....

But how the heck had Siret done that to me? Was it a trick or an illusion?

Loki style

there’s no possible way a sol will ever take one of us down. None. So don’t worry yourself about it.”

Bc they're gods who were cursed???

Willa Knight – dweller. I always did want to see my name in lights, but not exactly like this.

EXCUSE Tf ouutta me

I would have punched Rome for saying it in the first place, but I didn’t want a broken hand. It was bad luck to break your hand before a kick-ass mission. See? I was learning so much already.

This silly bish

“You know they aren’t all called Jeffrey, right?”

Nooo dont break the fantasy yet!!!

They had far too much knowledge for a bunch of rebels who occasionally broke through the dingy back entrance into Topia.

Duhhhh

Arms wrapped around me and before I got a single answer to my very important questions, I was hauled up and into the dark interior.

Lmaooo