Rai (is hard to please) > Recent Status Updates

“I might be planning a violent death for this damn poison mage, but I would never force myself on her sexually. Her or anyone else, for that matter.”

The more often I see sumn like this, the funnier it gets. Oh, you’re a homicidal maniac but you’d NEVER sexually violate someone.
Tf you want, a medal?

“As if they all actually knew how to run a city. And all they did was pass laws and make decisions to please other people. To make sure that everyone around them was happy. Well, I’d had enough of that for several lifetimes over.”

?????????
You’ve had enough of being happy?? Okay???? Then don’t??

“You’d really never had an orgasm before.”
If this was what an orgasm felt like, then he was right.

Oh, fuck off.

“This was as far as I always got, but I could probably keep up the nice feeling a little while longer.”

😀🔫

“Dark amusement blew across his face.”

Sigh

“Surprise flickered through me. This planning session had gone really well. It was as if Callan could actually keep up with my own scheming mind.”

I mean… y’alls plan isn’t exactly complicated. It doesn’t take a genius to devise, but go off ig

“Sex was so overrated.”

Authors rlly cannot help themselves, can they? Even a super villain has to be sexually repressed.

“If Callan thought he would be the boss during our temporary partnership, he was sorely mistaken.”

She says, as she complies with his orders

“And in the meantime, the rest of us will get this mansion ready so that we can imprison Lance here and break him until he does our bidding instead.”

Oh. Yeah. Sure. Easy peasy.
(??????)

“powerful in-your-face magic”

Very eloquent, Marion

“You’re the only ones who can openly walk the city because no one knows what you look like.”

??? What about their former classmates? Families? Was their disappearance not reported?? Confused.

“Our internal fighting is hereby finished. Now, how do we stop them from sending a Binder after us?”

It was that easy this whole time?🧍

(…) “confusion blowing across her beautiful features.”

That’s nice. Can we try a new way of expressing this sentiment?

“Listen to me. My contact told me that there is a guy called Lance Carmichael at the academy. He’s got an incredibly rare power, and he turns twenty in a few months so his magic is really strong too because he has trained all this time but he hasn’t graduated yet.”

Why do they talk like this

“No one can effectively use poison magic or healing magic because there are too few mages like that who have added their power to the shared pool.”

That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Forfeiting healing magic to make the collective marginally stronger? As if. Besides, does magic run out? Does the host have to be alive for it to work? Couldn’t mages donate their magic before they die??
Ridiculous.

Mic drop.

“Azrael,” Duke said softly. “The archangel of death. The wearer of a thousand faces.”

So was he the weirdo who “mistook” her for his ex-gf in book 1?

“It was my ex-husband.”

I really wanted to be wrong this time

“Just past her, on the roof of another building, I caught sight of a woman with flowing white hair. Lyra stood on the edge of the gable, deftly evading both Dorian and Roman.”

Weren’t Dorian and Roman the ones who died in Fury’s dream?

“In his own weird way, he was trying to give me a space to be myself. To be alone and to feel safe. To show me that if I stayed, I could still be who I was.”

“We’re going to play a game.”

Sigh.
And so it begins. Can’t we do this with Ezra, instead?

“Both Lyra and I have the ability to take away free will. We can make someone do anything and everything we want—except you, it seems.”
(…)
“And you?” I asked quietly. “Would you want me at your mercy?”
His eyes darkened with lust.

Ah, yes. Who doesn’t find it sexy to strip someone of their free will.
Tf bro??

If trying to sift to something brings it to her, what if she tries to summon something? Would she sift to it?

This training montage is about to get real kinky, isn’t it 🫠

“No, no, dear. Please don’t interrupt when I’m asking rhetorical questions.”

Fury. Rox. Jules. Now Rya.
I’m too sapphic for this.

“There’s beauty in the world, and it makes me happy when I see it. Gives me a smidge of hope for humanity.” I nudged him with my hand. “Don’t go telling anyone, though. You’ll ruin my reputation.”

Pretty Gandalf doesn’t know it yet, but she’s gonna become Fury’s bsf

“We must play our pieces carefully. Moving too quickly on this will only end up hurting people.”

THANK. YOU. HALLELUJAH.

“Not one of you have asked what Rya or I think about this. Not one of you have spoken to us, and not one of you paid any mind only moments ago when I tried to get your attention.”

Have I mentioned how much I love her?

“People too often tried to be good for the wrong reasons, like there was some sheet being marked with all the good deeds they’d done in life. You either wanted to treat people kindly, or you didn’t. Forget about who you think was watching you; it was always what was in your heart. And there were entirely too many hearts filled with hatred and ugliness. I knew all too well. I didn’t want her to get hurt.”