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She walks over and watches it burn.
GALENA
You’re going to keep doing work for Aphros, and she’s going to keep giving you potion that you’ll slowly build up an immunity to, and sooner or later your curse will come crashing down again, only worse.
Galena adjusts the picture on the mantle.
GALENA
Clay will leave, your friends will not forgive you for going behind their backs, and your world will fall apart. It’s the weight of the curse, and it’s inevitable.
I wish I had better news for you.
Rubi is really tearing up now.
RUBI
So what do I do?
GALENA
You’re going to keep doing work for Aphros, and she’s going to keep giving you potion that you’ll slowly build up an immunity to, and sooner or later your curse will come crashing down again, only worse.
Galena adjusts the picture on the mantle.
GALENA
Clay will leave, your friends will not forgive you for going behind their backs, and your world will fall apart. It’s the weight of the curse, and it’s inevitable.
I wish I had better news for you.
Rubi is really tearing up now.
RUBI
So what do I do?
Wait… is Galena one of Rubi’s past lives?
Plot twist! Rubi is one of Galena‘s past lives!!
Nah, Galena is still alive.
Past lives + time travel = classic hijinks
I notice you say Galena is still alive and not that this is really Galena.
Stop working for Aphros, and stop drinking that pink shit!!!!
That does seem like a reasonable course of action. SRSLY, that stuff can’t be good for you.
CALLED IT!!!! this is cool though!
I believe only a fraction of what this Galena is telling Rubi- everything else is screaming in my ears that this is a nightmare induced by the pink potion that Aphros was giving Rubi. Rubi took longer to affect due to a lot of means.
Definitely think this is a nightmare – Galena, her hero, is crushing her dreams and literally laying out all of her fears for her. She knows she is slowly building up the immunity and that it’s not working as well as before. She also knows sneaking behind her friends’ backs is Not Good. Not to mention the bird statue and the wallpaper!! She’s still thinking about those giant crows attacking her, and the decorations are forming from her subconscious. (I really like the inclusion of the wallpaper. It’s a really good detail.) Plus, Galena called her Ruby once, even though there was no introduction. I was pretty sure from the first page with the pink drink, but now I seriously cannot believe this is real.