Marked - Chapter 10 Sporking

CHAPTER TEN

"I keep thinking that hubris is eventually going to bring Aphrodite down," Damien said.

"Hubris," Stevie Rae explained, "having godlike arrogance.”

I kind of like it when things get explained to Zoey like the idiot she actually is. I also like that Stevie Rae apparently doesn’t have enough faith in Zoey’s so-called ‘intelligence’ that she automatically explains something without pausing to wonder if an explanation is truly needed.

Unless PCK are the ones who don’t have enough faith in us, the readers, and think that we’re the ones who needed the explanation. I’m going to go with the former, for the sake of my blood pressure.

"I actually know that one," I said, still staring after Aphrodite and her mob.

I’m not sure that two people can accurately be called a mob, but I suppose we have to do something to make her look threatening, since I still don’t know why everyone is so afraid of her.

“We just finished reading Medea in English class. It’s what brought Jason down.”

“I’d love to knock the hubris right out of her bobble head,” Erin said.

‘Bobble head’? What? If that was meant to be an insult, you missed the mark.

 

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