#Maya and Zeran Sittin' in a Tree...

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My baby work hard.

Wottice dis, Frankie? Is YOU outchea checking for the blue boy too? Tell the truth: We ain't never see Frankie talmbout no, "Tell us about yourself." And Maya rocking on them heels a whole lot when she say things to he.

SOLIDARITY. And... something else...

No, because why is this current dynamic -

Zeran: *Exists*

The League of Godlings: 😏🥰😊

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This team tryna kill me. Frankie and Zeran to the rescue now. They becoming some lil' magic musketeers. I... have so much content right here for all of my many needs. This chapter!!!

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Eli and Frankie probably knew when I did, Girl. Lol.

Now Maya... I just started to be okay with him, now I can't trust him again. Okay. I mean. If it gotta be this way.

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Not Zeran looking like Lil' Nas X. Okay, darkbringer son.

I'm glad that the mamas had the kids backs. Frankie's moms and Maya's. Like... y'all sitting here in judgment of OUR kids that went and put their lives on the line. No, babay.

I finally feel safe that they all safe. But damn. War comes next so 🙃

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I love my kids, and now... since he doesn't seem to be an enemy, I sorta love Zeran too. I hope he heals. And he's definitely part of the team to the kids.

That one girl who... why did they introduce her? She hadn't even been around like that talmbout some, "I see why you don't do your homework" when she saw Zeran. BACK BACK!

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I have trust issues with boys that a protagonist likes, and with Rena Barron, for the things she did to my emotions in Reaper of Souls.

THANK YOU MAYA!

THANK YOU FOR FINALLY ADMITTING THAT YOU LIKE THAT DARKBRINGER BOY! I KNEW IT. Monster Luva Maya Era 😌

Zeran, you ain’t on the team until you realize that one thing Eli and Frankie gon’ do, it’s argue like an old married couple trope. You officially on. Unless you turn out to be an enemy, because I will forget I ever knew you and blot you right out.

I'm sad he don't feel good, but that's where hard head meets soft butt.

And now... AND NOW... Maya x Eli Solidarity Zeran, you been here a couple minutes, don't play my boy. Maya know her crew ... AND...........

GHOST. HUNTER. ELI. SUPREMACY.

MY BOY FINALLY GOT HIS GHOST ARMY!

FROM “GIVE ELI POWERS CAMPAIGN” TO 

SAY HELLO TO MY GHOST ARMY

NO! NO! YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND!

I have been wanting Eli to feel confident about his powers all book, and I have wanted him to have something that he WANTS, and this was what he first wanted in the first book and now I get to see it manifested! Crying Happy Tears! I am so 😭😭😭

And then, my current fave bestie duo: Frankie is RIGHT THERE. She probably concerned about that nosebleed, but she is RIGHT THERE for this moment for him, and for ME, because she had him self conscious about his powers (accidentally, but meaningfully), and now he gets to look right at her and feel just as valuable as he thinks his friends are.

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Buddy, let me tell you something... Not I, nor my good Sis, Maya believe that you wasn’t still peepin’ out the scene. Lmao.You WAS following her, and you was following her with purpose. As. You. Should. She don’t know wtf she doing and her friends done goofed...

BUT. He right too. She got a quest and she keep thinking its all hers to bear. She don't even like when the homies be heroing, so you got another think coming about being her hero, Guy..

I must say though. There's something about him swooping in and protecting my girl that makes me see it for him/them. It's checking the boxes for heart eyes. She gon' have to stop playing herself acting like she don't like him in a bit.

But keep in mind... these ain't no damsels. Not only can they hold their own, but sometimes they'll hold you down too. Check out my girls saving they boy-damsels.

Eli basically said, "I feel faint," and I like to imagine that he put the back of his hand to his forhead before he flopped on his back. 😌

And there is so much emotion for me in this rescue sequence. Bravery, loyalty, teamwork, friendship, love!

And Frankie and Eli round it out with the energy that reminds us, this is a squad of kids.

NEW TEAM DROPPED!

But Eli gon' have to workshop this name. Lol. "League of Godlings and One Butt-Kicking Darkbringer is tew murch. #WeWereReady

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"I thought about Zeran, very casually and not at all like a boy that I lowkey have a crush on..." Lol. Shut up Maya. You at the precipe of wildest time for hormones at your age.

I somehow always forget that Maya has dizzy and fainting spells until she starts having an episode..

Now. Maya kinda is jumping to conclusions. Cow over the moon conclusions...

We don't know enough about Eleni to know whether or not Maya's theory is valid, but to me, I really doubt it. Like. I guess there could have been forshadowing that she would go against the family by her not listening to her parents and by befriending and getting tricked by the Lord of Shadows, but Maya really don't have nothing but that to potentially base this idea on. How you know she not held captive or something? These darkbringers be ruthless. Or even a mind control thing where she got deceived.

It just feels harsh for Maya to assume this about this girl who is presumed dead by her whole family and the whole world. I'm with Eli too. I know people go bad, but Elleguá seems like a good parent and Idk what would provoke his child to turn on him.

Now that umm... fairy commander bitch? She turned on family, and from how he was talking to her, I bet she was related to his wife. Because the accusations sounded real personal. But that half sis AND a potential other relative turned on the family would be a lot for me to take.

1. Those are three VERY different smells!

2. Why is Eli's funky and the girls' pleasant?

3. GHOST HUNTER ELI BACK IN THE PLACE!

Now Frankie... you don't even scientifically believe in ghosts, is that why you wanna talk about something else, or has our mutual, Eli, gotten you to take a walk on the paranormal side?

Now... You mean to tell me that Maya, MAYA was the one to reign herself in when folk who could not explicably BE in this forest inexplicably appeared in this forest?

Frankie and Eli. What the hell, buds?

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AKA That Time Maya Got Herself A Lil’ Wanna Be Boo, Okay?

Chapter 23 was good compensation for the attacks on me that occured in Chapter 22.

Look here, you lil’ blue bitch... if ANYBODY gon’ be talking bout “Frankiefying,” it’s gonna me ELI, or It’s gonna be MAY! (In my Da Brat voice, tew thee tune of Funkdafied!!!) HOW DARE!

Eli was so happy to see his partner in crime safe. But, why is this reaction precisely how my lil’ brother would be in the event that this happened to me? 😭😭😭

OK, MAYA, I SEE YOU, GIRL! You are CHECKING for that darkbringer. I’m not fooled. You got a lil’ crush on that blue boy. Mmm Hmm. Wonder how that’s gon’ fly with the homies. 

Eli already territorial for his girls, because really, who TF do he think he is? He think because he SAVED Frankie and BEEN helping that he can just say whatever? Hmph! Lol. 

Eli. Everybody not finna play with you like Frankie and Maya. This is not your besties. This is a darkbringer, in The Dark. But also, you are a descendant of slaves. You didn’t have that correlation? Okay. But, I did. Also. You are a young Black boy from Amerikkka. The way that will incarcerate that ass willynilly... I’m just saying it’s not a joke, but also, it’s not like you ain’t got some frame of reference for the conditions.

Once again, duo on one accord, and nobody even clocked that Frankie was feeling some kinda way about not being able to except her lil’ boyfrien help. HA HA. She really tried and the homies said, “Nah.” Lol.

Aight, Buddy. Just. Do what you do. Damn. Dramatic lil’ blue n***a.