Maraya21 (The Reading Dragon)’s Reviews > Rite of Rejection > Status Update

It’s fitting that I should end up in a cell w/ nothing but a wafer-thin mattress. The others tried to convince me that I’m not a criminal but they were wrong. I broke into locked rooms, stole things I had no right to, plotted against the Cardinal & tried to break out. I’m a thief & a liar. I’m not to be trusted. They should lock me up in here forever so I can’t hurt anyone else

Well then, goodbye I guess? Smh

Eric’s eyes show the hurt at my reaction. I should apologize, explain that I don’t know how to do this. But how can I tell him that kissing him feels wrong because we aren’t on my parents’ porch, & I don’t love him, & that I really just want to kiss his sister’s boyfriend

Cookie to everyone who can tell me everything that's wrong here. Help: This was her first kiss that she absolutely wanted, no pressure.

Is there a chance the owner of this jacket keeps his OneCard in the little inner pocket, too?
I’m almost too nervous to check, but at this point I don’t have anything to lose

Really? You snuck in the prisons' admin building to steal a tablet (that other more cunning peeps have been trying unsuccessfully for a year) yet searching inside a forgotten jacket for an access card makes you nervous & gives you pause?

If what they said at dinner is true, the Cardinal thinks I’m a dangerous person. It’s almost enough to make me laugh. How could a man with that much power be afraid of me?

Words have power. Especially in a society full of brainless fucking sheep.

My mother put all her hopes on me finding a good husband and pulling her up into social circles she felt she deserved to be in. With a daughter in the PIT she’ll be excluded from every ladies lunch and social tea for the next twenty years. I’ve ruined everything for her.
And my father. Cardinal save him, alone in that house with her.

You sheep. Fucking brainless sheep, the lot of you! #grade_A_stupidity

20 pages in and I already hate the structure of this society.