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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.