Serena ♡’s Reviews > The Lies of Locke Lamora > Status Update

“They could live comfortably for ten crowns apiece each year, and to spend much more than that would invite the most unwelcome scrutiny imaginable, from every authority in Camorr, legal or otherwise. In four years, they’d brought off three huge scores and were currently working on their fourth; for four years, the vast majority of the money had simply been counted and thrown into the darkness of the vaults.”

“The tooth twisted in his mouth, as though wrenched by an unseen hand, and scored a burning slash across the inside of his cheek. Locke cried out, coughed, and spat it up. “Ahhh,” said Capa Barsavi as he plucked the the tooth up and slipped it back into his waistcoat, blood and all. “So you see—you are bound by an oath of blood to my service. My tooth has tasted of your life, and your life is mine..”

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING! I’m in tears from shock quite literally. You’re telling me they’re pulling off a scheme, then telling the victims its a scheme as the secret society but they’re also pretending to be the secret society trying to arrest… their original scheme selves so they tell the victim to play into the scheme? My brain is starting to hurt and I have a feeling this is only one of many layers