LINKDING

<blockquote>“It’s called the Rite of Passage. How it goes is, you pick out a guy. You get him to fall in love with you, and then . . .” Nayra paused dramatically, reflected candlelight shining in her eyes. “You break his heart.” When Silena was dating Charles Beckendorf, she spoke against the Aphrodite Cabin's Rite of Passage. Her sisters and brothers thought she'd never taken part in it, and some of them believed that she died for her disrespect for Aphrodite. But none of them knew about Silena and Clarisse, or the true story of how Silena came to betray the camp.</blockquote> ➤ it's been so long since I've read the percy jackson books that I don't even remember the character of Silena at all, much less her storyline, so I was a little lost in the places where there was assumed knowledge, but I still had a lot of feels. What a good.

<blockquote>Flavian thought that the reason for the subterfuge was so that no one in the Wraith organization would know that Mordecai was meeting him, but the real reason was so that Flavian wouldn't know that the Wraith organization was perfectly well aware that Mordecai was meeting him. Mordecai sighed for a time when his life had been less complicated, but it had never been, really.</blockquote>

<blockquote>He had always thought he would end up married to his work. He had studied hard, worked diligently, brought himself to the attention of the right people--and ended up with an appointment to the Chrestomanci’s personal staff, as high as one could rise in Flavian’s chosen profession if one hadn’t happened to be born with nine lives. And when he got there he’d found Mordecai waiting for him. Mordecai, who threw all his previous ideas into confusion.</blockquote> ➤ AUUUUUUGH OVERCOME WITH FEELINGS