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floor.
This isn't the first time the author has said "floor" when referring to the ground outside. It's a strange choice and reminds me of the language of elementary schoolers. Maybe this is done to drive home that the protagonists are school-aged, but I'm curious why, then, the verbiage is in the narration and not the dialogue.
Ashley smirked. “You’re a witch? Prove it.” Rita rolled her eyes, more like a teenager than an elderly woman. She pointed a crooked finger at Ashley and said, “That bruise on your nose. Your dad done that, yes? Hit you this very afternoon, he did.” Ashley gasped. The old lady shrugged as though it was nothing. “Easy to read pain when it’s so fresh. Am I right, lamby?” “Yes! But how did you… How the fuck did you know that?” “Because she’s a witch,” said Jude. Rita nodded. “That I am, and I’ll ask you not to soil the air in here, girl.” “Sorry.” “With all that’s happened,” said Jude. “You being
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Again, this reads as though a school-aged kid is writing it and I can't tell if it's deliberate.
“There was a girl named Lily Barnes. She went into the triangle. Rose killed her. She… she couldn’t see Rose.” “Only the pure of flesh can see the wicked of heart. This girl, Lily, she was no longer a virgin?” Ashley grimaced. “What? I don’t know. Gross.” “She probably wasn’t,” said Jude. “She was kind of off the rails.” Rita exhaled again. She seemed to be growing tired, like continuing the conversation was hard work. “Only virgins, or those who have only ever known the body of a spouse, can see the likes of Rose.
...wow
“Men made this world, but it is for women to inherit. We must give birth to our power and make manifest our rage. We shall not be servants and whores any longer.”
I think this is having the opposite effect of the one you intended
“I’m sorry for being a dick to you all these years, man. You wanna be mates?” Jude turned and nodded. “Yeah, I’d like that, Ricky. Hey, do you like magic?”
wait, what?
