Rai (is hard to please) > Recent Status Updates

“Hmmm. Well, people tend not to notice what’s in front of them until it nearly knocks them down.”

Tandri said *hint* *hint* *neon sign*

“Unnoticeable isn’t the same as harmless.”

“I’ll be damned,” said Viv.
“Hm,” said Cal. “Maybe. Least you won’t burn alive ’til you get to the hells, though.”

💀💀💀💀

“He stared up at her, and in a solemn whisper, said, ‘Thimble.’”

He’s a shy lil rat boy… who bakes… and his name is Thimble.

I want one.

“If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that if a beast isn’t angry yet, don’t get it started.”

Imagine having common sense

“I think I’d been looking for a way out for years. Adventuring, fighting, hunting bounties—you’re either bleeding yourself slow from a hundred wounds or waiting on one deathblow. But you get numb to the possibility of anything different. This was the first time something else made me feel a way I wanted to keep feeling. So, here I am, and with some blood still in me.”

“This is what I know, what I’ve always known. I just want to know something else, now. To be something else. Everything I said was stupid. I, of all people, ought to know better than to assume anything based on what you were born as. Before you walk out, do you mind if I start over?”

Such a squishhhh

“She found herself annoyed that Cal had made her hang it up and then angry at herself for blaming him, since that was a stupid thing to think. Viv could have juggled the man one-handed. He’d hardly made her do anything.”

Self-awareness for the winnnnn

“Folks gonna need a new education just to buy some bean w–… some coffee.”
“I don’t know. I kind of like it. It’s more exotic that way.”
“Ladies’ stockin’s and exotic bean water. Gods help us.”

“Can’t let you pay for it, Cal.”
“Hm. Too bad. Already paid me too much. Figured if I was gonna waste it on somethin’ foolish, this might as well be it.”

Gotta love a grumpy softie <3

“Live long enough, you realize some folks can be handed a problem and some tools, and they’ll sort it out. And I never think twice about hiring that sort of fellow.”

“Things don’t have to stay as what they started out as.”

“Though it is dangerous, it may be possible to steal the Terradrin Relic from the Under Kingdom.”

So we can pull off a heist but we not a secret correspondence… alright. Sure.

“But his disdain for her once his life had been restored hurt more than his death ever could.”

…. Huh??

“If High Elder Adda Carew had taken Saoirse to the Sea Witch, then it was undeniable that the Order knew about the bargain.”

But… Saoirse didn’t mention Add—ya know what, nvm. It’s nearly over anyway

“How had he not heard of this barbaric practice before?”

No, really. How. It’s not exactly a private event. How has no one noticed the tributes killing each other off?

“It is customary for Auran tributes to drink the wine of the gods before the final trial.”

Uh-huh. Sure, it is 😑
*cough* cheater *cough*

“There was no room for them in the paper-thin web of political alliances that built up their world.“

The ONE time a political marriage would actually benefit the love story, no one proposes it.
Figures.

“But the truth that stung the most was that both she and Rook had been pawns in the game of Revelore long before the Tournament, long before the bargain with Selussa. Even if she had never vowed to kill him, she would’ve been sentenced to a life that was not her own regardless. There was no world in which they could be together, bargain or not.”

“Rook thought his heart had been torn in two before, but it was nothing compared to the pain he felt now.”

When getting rejected by a girl u met three days ago hurts more than finding out your closest kin have been lying to you since who-knows-when 🤡🤡🤡

“A few days ago, the other tributes were nameless faces she could care less about.”

Nope, try again.

“Promise me that we will win this Tournament,” she said softly. “Promise me that we will both make it out of this alive.”
Aurelia turned to her, eyes scanning her somber expression.
“I promise.”

So… should I order the flowers now, or…? ⚰️💐

“The sensation of flying was similar to that of floating with the tides of the sea. If she closed her eyes, she could almost imagine being suspended in the ocean, untethered to the earth. It was a place of in-between, a weightless state of freedom.”

“She needed him to be the monster she believed him to be.”

“We shall win, don’t doubt for a second that we won’t.”

Say that again, but slowly

Is it time? Is the plot finally plotting? 🤞🤞🤞🤞

If Aurelia and Sune aren’t secretly-not-so-secretly infatuated with each other, I’ll eat my sock

Is Hasana gonna try to steal the crown during the trials?? 🤔

“The idea of this turns you on that much?” I eased closer till my breasts brushed his chest.
He cupped my face, long fingers sliding into my hair to wrap my skull.
“You turn me inside out.”

“I feel so privileged. Taken to your bedroom and everything.”
He pinched my ass. I yelped.
“Keep it up, and you won’t leave my bedroom. Ever.”
“Promise?”
Then he was all Devraj smiles and Devraj eyes, heated and intense. “Promise, love.”