oh what a good twist on the three-sentence format, a good way of showing the duality between demon and human, magic and reality — you can see the same emotions on either side of the coin, the same desire to protect and regret at what’s past protecting, and everything’s more complicated than it seems. i love ‘magic wants to be hated the way an apple wants to fall,’ and of course hate and love are all tangled together (‘til they cancel out to zero).