TheThirdFairy
I’d have to think about it
Primavera1959
Oh my god
You’re a fraud
But seriously if you were going to do a spell for yourself tonight, what would it be for?
TheThirdFairy
You really want to know?
Primavera1959
I really do
TheThirdFairy
Maybe courage
Primavera1959
For what?
TheThirdFairy
To stop treating the things that make me happy like they’re the things I should be most afraid of losing. To make myself be happy about someone without immediately imagining all the ways I could lose them
Primavera1959
Oh.
That was not what I expected you to say
TheThirdFairy
You asked
Primavera1959
I know
CHAPTER 31
MERRYWEATHER
“I read something really concerning on Reddit.”
Dani keeps eating her salad. Across the table, Veronica unwraps the second half of her sandwich without looking notably alarmed either, which is insulting considering I specifically chose the word concerning.
“I’m serious.”
“You read things on the internet after midnight all the time,” Dani says. “That’s generally how you end up concerned.”
It was not technically after midnight. It was eleven forty-seven, and I had been in bed doing completely reasonable research after The Third Fairy told me to go to sleep.