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Pasqual Allen's avatar

This was good Warden. The classifier.

The Warden’s Archive's avatar

Thanks for reading it!

Pasqual Allen's avatar

Your stuff is so good. The way you write. It’s so good. Like on a roller coaster with your storytelling.

Roger Browne's avatar

‘The jaw was not relevant to the assessment.’ – oh hell yeah it was 😊

‘which was a textile observation and therefore scientific’ – chortle

‘The woman who had a name and a body and nerve endings and a lifelong, helpless, specific weakness for the scent of cedar because her father had been a carpenter’ – and how the hell does he know that? She wonders…

The hair tied back in the loose gather that she was not growing accustomed to and was not looking forward to and did not think about between sessions. 😊

I was prepared for the 12 crystals to be the crescendo – and then, they were not.

And the tidal mirrors were, or should have been. And then. They were not.

And Mariselle and Nev are looking at each other across an emotional minefield neither are prepared to cross.

Jaw hits floor. Several teeth crack. Eyes roll up. Blood drips from both nostrils… wth just happened!!!!

The Warden’s Archive's avatar

This comment absolutely SENT me 😭.

I genuinely love thoughtful comments like this because it tells me the tension and restraint are landing exactly the way I hoped they would.

Roger Browne's avatar

good 😎. If you had any reservations about whether this would hold reader’s attentions? yeah, drop those right now :) it’s wonderful!

The Warden’s Archive's avatar

Hey, I can promise you this, it only gets better!