I loved the three rules about reading in front of the author
1: Never read out loud
2: Don't imitate the characters
3: Refrain from begging for updates
(In order to prevent the author from suddenly dying due to an uneasy conscious)
Wow her dad being a rapist pedophile is something I did not see coming. I was expecting something more mundane and pedestrian like murder and extortion.
Honestly I thought it was hilarious for some reason, like you can tell the petals were going out of there way, doing it on purpose and were trying so hard to do this.
Of course I am off my rocker from some cough medicine so that may be part of it.
Maybe have the Head Magician feel your magic when you treat someone? See if they can detect it that way?
But surely the idea of stuff being in water isn't new, the concept of mud being dirty water has got to be common knowledge. So if you can get them to be separate Earth from Mud to create...