Omg, Rose?! Is your Marie going to dabble in a little sass?!?!!? I LOVE SASSY!MARIE.

"Telekinetic castration." Loved it.

From the very. first. fucking. sentence I knew I was in for something.....sumptuous? Yes, that's what your writing is. It's like gorging on a box of Godiva that you had originally planned on sharing with someone. It's so good, too good. Too much, but you still want more.

"He liked the rain, though the predator in him was considering the cold and the unrelenting Wet--which heightens some scents, and hopelessly blurrs others--with a wrinkled nose and a stiff jaw." I like the capitalization in this sentence & the positive/negative spin on the weather.

" There was a sundial in the center of the courtyard, a proud project of last year's shop class, and his gaze returned to it again and again though it's face was uselessly dark and weeping now." This too. I loved that you used the word "face" & "weeping", throwing back to its use as a clock...which has a face. Just. Brilliant. How do you think of something like this?

I could go on & on, but I'd be copy/pasting the entire damn thing. You are really just too damn good.

Author's Response: Quite pleased to know that you were drinking when you wrote this; it makes the writing much better (perhaps there's a formula for that? Like your blood alcohol level multiplied by the real worth of the story?). Si, si, un poco sass-o por Marie. I wish I could give you a lifetime supply of Godiva chocolate for this, and perhaps something whipped and vanilla-flavored to apply to whatever body part of Hugh Jackman you prefer.