Silver Elite: Chapter 42
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penwallaWren panics as Ellis, the healer, offers to fix her old scar.
She doesn't actually know if the bloodmark is still under there, but she can't take the chance that it is.
Side note: in this world, Mods can be identified by both certain birthmarks and by their veins lighting up when they use their powers, and yet there's no mention of, like, a prohibition on long sleeves, or regular skin exams. You would think every recruit in the military would be stripped and checked for a bloodmark prior to joining, right? You would think that if the marks could just be scarred over, there would be some suspicion if a person had an obvious scar or burn, right?
Nope! I have thought more about this than the author.
Wren makes a speech about how the scars represent everything she's been through in life and she wants to keep them, and Ellis backs off.
Next scene. Cross knocks on Wren's door. He shows her the place where he used to have a scar from his brother Roe shooting him, but it's been healed by Ellis.
Is this the Aberrant mother Wen brought up earlier? There's a mystery here, and I actually am interested in the answers, but we have so little information.
Anyways, Cross's point is that now that he doesn't have the scar, he forgot that his brother shot him. He thinks Wren has a point.
I mean, sure. Having been trapped in Wren's brain for several hundred pages, I do think she needs the scars to remind of events in her life, because she's so bad at remembering things.
They fuck, and in the morning Cross is still there, so Wren starts looking at his tattoos. There's some text there that she can't make sense of.
Name one time in this book Wren has displayed this curiosity. Please. I am begging.
Cross wakes up, they talk about how they wish they could trust each other, and they go back to fucking.
Wren does not think once about the fact that the reason she can't trust Cross is that he's a Prime and as far as she knows he would kill her for being a Mod. No, we get a completely generic monologue about trust instead.
Does the author not remember why this romance is forbidden?
Chapter end.
She doesn't actually know if the bloodmark is still under there, but she can't take the chance that it is.
Side note: in this world, Mods can be identified by both certain birthmarks and by their veins lighting up when they use their powers, and yet there's no mention of, like, a prohibition on long sleeves, or regular skin exams. You would think every recruit in the military would be stripped and checked for a bloodmark prior to joining, right? You would think that if the marks could just be scarred over, there would be some suspicion if a person had an obvious scar or burn, right?
Nope! I have thought more about this than the author.
Wren makes a speech about how the scars represent everything she's been through in life and she wants to keep them, and Ellis backs off.
Next scene. Cross knocks on Wren's door. He shows her the place where he used to have a scar from his brother Roe shooting him, but it's been healed by Ellis.
“He’s jealous of you.”
“Always has been. My father…He worships my mother in a way that he never, ever did with Roe’s. He took care of her when she got pregnant, but he never gave a shit. There’s only one woman Merrick Redden will ever love. And that’s Vinessa.”
Is this the Aberrant mother Wen brought up earlier? There's a mystery here, and I actually am interested in the answers, but we have so little information.
Anyways, Cross's point is that now that he doesn't have the scar, he forgot that his brother shot him. He thinks Wren has a point.
I mean, sure. Having been trapped in Wren's brain for several hundred pages, I do think she needs the scars to remind of events in her life, because she's so bad at remembering things.
They fuck, and in the morning Cross is still there, so Wren starts looking at his tattoos. There's some text there that she can't make sense of.
Memories of eternal snow.
When the wind turns against you.
A single second.
I’m an obnoxiously curious person, so the fact that I can’t make sense of those cryptic words eats at my brain like a worm in an apple.
Name one time in this book Wren has displayed this curiosity. Please. I am begging.
Cross wakes up, they talk about how they wish they could trust each other, and they go back to fucking.
Wren does not think once about the fact that the reason she can't trust Cross is that he's a Prime and as far as she knows he would kill her for being a Mod. No, we get a completely generic monologue about trust instead.
It would be more than nice. Trusting someone with my entire being. Ripping my chest open and letting them see inside. All the dark, ugly, twisted parts. All my secrets and fears and crippling insecurities. Showing them every part of me without fear of judgment or betrayal.
But the world doesn’t allow for such luxuries.
Does the author not remember why this romance is forbidden?
Chapter end.
