Rai (is hard to please)’s Reviews > Payback's a Witch > Status Update

“Thank you, for loving me. Even when I didn’t deserve it.”
“I know you, don’t I? Always figured you’d deserve it eventually.”

Ugh. None of us deserve our besties, honestly.

“Why are you doing this, Emmy?” she said, low and a little hoarse, nothing at all like that controlled tone she’d been using until now. “I need to know. Because it can’t be just about me—I’m not making that mistake again, especially not with you. There has to be something else here for you. Something besides us.”

Talia stays an intellectual

The way my first guess was to check Caelia’s final resting place🧍
Magically vibing with the earth is cool and all… but so is ✨logic✨

“Houses Thorn, Blackmoore, and Avramov must now compete once more, to break the tie.”

Easily could’ve avoided this if Talia had distracted Gareth during the first challenge while Rowan raced to the center of the lake… but hey, who said foresight was good for the plot?

“Places from the past are usually much smaller than you remember when you return to them years later, shocked that they’d ever managed to command so much space in your brain at all.”

“If she was going to give up the world for me, I’d better be damn well worth a sacrifice like that.”

ahah :’)
Dw Talia, I’ll give up all the worlds for you 🥰 here, take my soul too

“You want to be an ink virgin, because you’re saving yourself for your first time with that extra special someone?”
(…)
“Wait a minute, now I’m processing the implications. Does this make me an ink slut? Dermally promiscuous?”

She might be annoying but at least she’s funny

“The room filled with the smell of rain and gusting cold, but the two of us were such an inferno that the creeping chill felt like a balm. We were pure heat together, a building blaze with no known boundaries. A tangled locus of lips and hands, driving each other wild over and over again.
A fire that felt like madness, like it might never be put out.”

Take. It. Easy. With. The. Analogies.
Fuck sake.

“Even after all this time, it still feels like home.”

Poor you??? Trade places with me if you don’t like it :)