nepeinthe: one burning dove revision reread update #02. i finished my reread earlier this week and n
nepeinthe:one burning dove revision reread update #02.i finished my reread earlier this week and now i’m left with a lot of plot holes, extensive research to complete, and a lot of things in general to do before july starts so i hope i can get that done in timeone highlight: idk i feel like this excerpt itself isn’t even that great but i really like it and so i guess that’s enough for me. Until she looks closer, and it is almost as though the darkness has helped wake her up again from the cloud of terror she has been walking in for the past hours. There is still one billboard lit, in the night. Just a single one, in the same square where Camila first took her, behind the building that overlooked the harbor and the entire cityscape. Horror courses through her body in waves. That is a photo of [redacted], smiling. She rocks back against the roof of the house. This cannot be real. Next to her, Julian curses, leans back, and then sits forward again, staring. “Please, god,” he whispers, and she knows that he is not religious, that this is a prayer to the empty heavens and the old gods of wrecked streets and graffitied alleys lost somewhere in the transaction between people who did not care and a country that did not protect. “Please. No more losses tonight.”one not highlight: trigger warning violence and weapons (? sort of) there’s just a lot of things fundamentally that i knew i was writing wrong and needed to be fixed even during writing draft 1 and this was one of them, obviously learning how to shoot should not be remotely that simple. it’s under the cut bc of the tw Keep reading -- source link