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[quigonejinn]

This is a drop-dead, unbelievably, chew your heart out, good. It has all the loneliness, you know? With Charles and Raven as smart as they ought to be and as damaged and loving each other, too. I read this in the morning, thought about it all day, came home, recc'd it to th_esaurus, read it again, and am reading it and thinking two days later. It stays with you.

“Do you remember what you looked like?” he said.

She did. She had been round-faced and sly-mouthed, with dark hair that hung straight and soft over her ears. She had liked making faces at herself in the mirror, back when she could only, really, make one single face.

“Do you remember what it was like before you started hearing people’s thoughts?” she said.

Fermenting in Fermata by possibly_thrice