This chapter begins with Warner continuing to be an idiot.
"'I don't want you to hate me,' Warner says as we make our way toward the elevator. 'I'm only your enemy if you want me to be.'"
Achoo.
He does say something that is both wonderfully and painfully correct, however, about Juliette changing her mind before they step into the elevator, where he gets pervy.
She asks him to tell her his first name (Spoiler Alert: It's Aaron, but he won't tell her that until a very particular moment in Unravel Me) and he responds by asking her to touch him. She refuses, however, and he gets all snappy before asking a soldier that unfortunately is not Adam to accompany her to her room, all while grabbing her arm. It makes me wonder how the soldiers have any respect for him.
And finally, Juliette decides to do something intelligent. She runs.
They catch her, of course, but it was worth a shot.
Jenkins (the soldier) is forced to grab her arm, and here there's some very interesting premonition.
"I wish it hurt me. I wish it maimed me. I wish it repulsed me. I wish I hated the potent force wrapping itself around my skeleton.
But I don't. My skin is pulsing with someone else's life and I don't hate it.
I hate myself for enjoying it."
Ooh. Juliette's power is pretty vaguely described in this series, and as the story progresses things get weird.
But we won't get to that for a while.
She gets free, literally kicking and screaming, and Jenkins is seriously messed up, lying on the ground, not moving, etc.
Warner is stupidly thinking he can calm her down by touching her, which only makes her scream more.
This chapter ends with him carrying Juliette away (by the way, he has no exposed skin) and her blacking out. Lovely.
I'm continuing now to The Night Circus Chapter Twenty-Six, but we're about to take off, so these won't be posted for a while. I guess I'll time-stamp these.
Finished 12:17 pm.
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