Alanna Thornton’s Reviews > The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door > Status Update

I’m terrified!!!

"Perhaps I'll never forgive myself for opening it."
I realised, as I said it, that it was an admission. Not I would never, but I'll never. I was already speaking as though opening that door was inevitable, as though I had made exactly the decision I was pretending I would never make.

OH <\3

Woah
This got a little spooky & I love it

He pointed out the gorse overgrowing the stone walls, the heather strangling the old doorways. I could see what he meant then. It did resemble the way the strange trees and vines and flowers flourished across the university. "I sometimes think Camford is like a ruin that's still alive."

Feels like a magical kinder secret history, the friends, the outsider, the knowledge that something bad is coming…

Uh oh… secrets between the group

“What does it feel like, the first time you open a window into faerie country? The nearest I can compare it to is like drawing a deep breath and opening your eyes, when your eyes are already open and your lungs are already full.”

Sad!!!

“But I had forgotten how horrifyingly real this was. The magic at Camford was human magic, carefully regulated, even the pranks and student excesses steeped in tra-dition. This was wild and uncanny and dark, and it wanted to hurt.” <\3