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lemon-natalia · 3 days

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 26

ohh ok, now she’s meeting Corona in her memories … is this the first time that she’s meeting someone in who wasn’t for certain confirmed dead after the events of Canaan House?

welp, not that Harrow got a chance to talk to her at all, the hell Silas

'Is this how it happens then?’ another variation on questioning if this is really how it happened!

uh uh ok guess Silas is gone too now. rip him again?

hmmm… she’s seeing watery blood in the sky. on one hand, this feels like it could be a sign that her fake memories are breaking down, but the other time blood coloured water has been mentioned is earlier in the River, i wonder if there’s any connection there?

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 27

well hello again Ianthe. i personally would be a bit angrier and more grossed out by the unknowing cannibalism, but you do you i suppose

wonderful, its time for an impromptu amputation! sure this can’t go wrong at all

oh shit, Harrow’s making her a new arm! sans flesh i suppose, but Ianthe seems to prefer it. also, if Harrow can grow back bone, it feels strange that the Emperor/other Lyctors didn’t just do that in the first place instead of giving Ianthe a transplant?

and now she’s in tune with Naberius’s … memory? soul? whatever it is, she’s finally in tandem with it

‘i’m going to help you kill the Saint of Duty’ yay, Teamwork makes the dream work i guess?

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 28

murder sleepover time!

when Abigail says that she’s already ‘moved on’ the Fourth children, does that mean they’re sleeping somewhere else or just died offscreen?? did i just forget them dying, a lots been happening in two different timelines and i honestly can’t remember all of it 😭

and weird memory Canaan House is experiencing weird weather! something something Harrow's mindscape is getting less and less coherent something something

Magnus ❤️🥰 my buddy returns!

i find the line where he says ‘Not that bad - can’t complain - it’ll be a damn sight worse in the River’ intriguing because its all in italics, and given the River contains souls of everyone, this maybe feels like a hint about how at this point in the timeline originally they were dead?

oooh and with their good natured attitudes, the Fifth really have Harrow in a tight spot. just as last time, they are a lot more cunning than they initially seem

alright, a new message, this one seems to be discussing some kind of love affair between the speaker, an unknown ‘you’, and a third man. but more than that, they mention the ‘first time they died’, which to me is reminiscent of how the Locked Tomb body described dying twice?

i have a feeling these messages come from either one of the deceased Lyctors or their cavaliers

another interesting aspect is that the message mentions ‘heaven’ and ‘hell’, maybe i've just missed it being mentioned so far but i was surprised that they do have the concept of both of them, even if the idea of 'afterlife as moral punishment' doesn't seem to exist?

‘I really think you should consider the idea that you might also be haunted’ if i don’t get a ghost files style investigation feat. Harrow, Abigail, and Magnus, i will be very disappointed.

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lemon-natalia · 3 months

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Gideon the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 20

i just wanna apologise in advance for how long these posts are getting lol, i have a lot of Thoughts about this book

oh wait nope they are going back to the creepy lab where two people just got murdered. great plan guys

Dulcinea wanting to team up surprised me a little, but it really shouldn't have. she's been paying a lot of attention to the Ninth, and especially Gideon.

'thousands of years after you're gone ... is when you really live' this is such a different, almost warmer, perspective on death and necromancy, and i can see why it appeals to Dulcinea specifically, who's clearly had to come to terms with her mortality pretty early on in life. but its also part of the more disturbing theme that the past never really goes away, and can't help but view this line along the same lines of discovering the ancient study last chapter, and the ancient laboratory, and Canaan House in general, which are only just now having their secrets revealed, and the terrible consequences of those secrets becoming apparent, after thousands of years

'she grasped a railing, leaned over, and proffered her hand' well this is getting very courtly romance

ah yes lets go through the door decorated with a swirl of human teeth, i'm sure there's happy fun times to be had in there. harrow, resident goth interior designer who specialises in bone decor, is probably taking notes as we speak

even after hurting her hand twice, Harrow really just can't resist experimenting even further huh. she's so very reluctant to accept that her existing powers aren't enough by themselves for this

ooohhhh, having to literally suck the life force out of your cavalier to win?? thats so sick and twisted and i love it. these challenges are, again, clearly relying on this intense relationship between the pair, both in trusting them absolutely and in this literal soul-siphoning/melding link thing.

however, it feels like Gideon's really getting the brunt of it in these challenges. Harrow's absolutely putting in an awful lot of effort and power, but it's the cavalier who has to fight the bone amalgamation, the cavalier who has to have their life literally siphoned out. they're about trust and a bond between them, but also seemingly about a willingness to sacrifice your cavalier to achieve that goal, and i have a really bad feeling about where exactly this is going in terms of how exactly one achieves lyctorhood

'under no circumstances will i ever desire your juice' Harrow you may wish to revisit this sentiment when you guys (to my limited knowledge) eventually become girlfriends

'none of this is worth it, at all [...] i'm sorry. We take so much' i'm like 90% sure the voice talking to Gideon throughout all this was Dulcinea, largely because it doesn't really make sense for it to be anyone else, but there were certain lines, specifically these ones, that made me suspicious at first it might be some(one? thing?) else. but it also feels fitting that its Dulcinea coaching her through this.

wow, just wow, i'm really impressed with the writing in this chapter, and how the pain Gideon is feeling is expressed. its such an abstract experience/feeling to describe, but i think its done incredibly well

'Ha-ha, said Gideon, first time you didn't call me Griddle, and died' ok i know she didn't but THANKS for giving me an absolute heart attack with that sentence Tamsyn Muir

Harrow i get understand u are protective of Gideon but let Dulcinea comfort her plz

'you can't just ask someone why they want to be a Lyctor'. ahh the duality of Gideon the Ninth. this just evocative prose about how it feels to be on the brink of death, and then immediately afterwards hits you in the face with a mean girls reference. beautiful, iconic, effervescent.

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lemon-natalia · 13 days

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 15

wow i almost forgot about the weird corpse that haunts Harrow 24/7

speaking of, my book keeps using the word ‘corse’ for the Body - is this a typo, or is that actually the intended word?

also her statement that she died twice … i don’t think this is just a hallucination given she’s giving Harrow info that she didn’t know before, the Body is actually talking to Harrow somehow

and again the significance of the colour of Harrow and Ortus’s eyes, and the fact that she can’t tell a difference between them - meaning there’s no way to see if her eyes have actually changed colour

‘She asked me not to tell you’ oooh the plot thickens - there’s another person who can apparently talk to the Body? Mercymorn? Ianthe? or ‘she’ is the past Harrow who wrote those letters? lotta options

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Gideon the Ninth Reaction - Review

some final thoughts:

i have some (very) minor nitpicks that i want to get out the way first, simply because the rest of my opinions are really positive: i felt like there were some minor pacing issues, particularly near the beginning where the actual main plot took a pretty long time to get going - but overall it was a real whirlwind of a book and Muir is very good at dramatic cliffhangers that kept the energy up and made me want to read more. the big fight in the final chapter also felt a little repetitive at points, i think it could have been shortened down just a tad?

that out the way, overall i really loved it!! i’d heard good things and had high expectations to be fair, but it definitely lived up to them, this is probably one of my favourite books i’ve read in a while. it managed to be macabre and hilarious and heartbreaking all at once, and balanced the humour & horror elements well. the mystery aspects and plot twists also felt pretty well written, having both plenty of foreshadowing while not being immediately obvious.

another big strength is the remarkably compelling characters. despite there being a pretty large cast, and obviously some characters being more major than others, all of the Houses felt fleshed out and unique and had their own moments to shine. i also mentioned before reading I wasn’t sure how I felt about the idea of Gideon & Harrow’s relationship, but i ended up absolutely loving their complicated dynamic - it developed very naturally, and even when they came into conflict later in the book, it never felt contrived.

tldr; i cried a lot. amazing! 10/10. i think reading this has fundamentally altered my brain chemistry

(Fun fact: not including this post, i’ve written approximately 12,400 words about Gideon the Ninth in these liveblogs. that’s longer than the undergrad dissertation that I was supposed to be doing instead of this)

also thank you so much to everyone who's expressed interest and encouraged me in this liveblog - it was very unexpected but i’m glad people liked it! given i already have a copy of Harrow the Ninth, would people be interested in me continuing these liveblogs for that book?

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lemon-natalia · 3 months

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Gideon the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 19

at the end of the last chapter i fully thought they were gonna go back to the basement murder lab, glad to see they're not being that dumb

'she used to have nightmares about being on the wrong side of the Locked Tomb, especially after what Harrow had done' see i'm pretty sure i've been spoiled about everything re: all of the dead Ninth kids and all that, but this feels like its maybe referring to something different? also, is the Locked Tomb like an actual physical locked place then, because i was kinda assuming it was just a really creepy metaphor for death

if i'm right in my assumption Gideon and Harrow get together, i find the contrast between how Gideon describes Harrow's appearance and 'pointed face' versus Everything about her descriptions of Corona hilarious

i cannot believe it took me until this chapter to realise that Gideon needed the sunglasses because of the difference in the amount of light present on the First vs Ninth. i honestly just thought she wanted to look cool and make a fashion statement 😭

neither of them brought lights omfg, they're such delightful dumbasses in their own way

oh wonderful another creepy lab, this time complete with an mysterious group photo with the faces crossed out. this really is a video-game setting

more fuel to my crack theory that this is Earth however-many-thousand years in the future: Gideon considers guns to be an ancient artifact. also now i want Gideon to have a gun, i think she could wreak havoc

i really wasn't expecting Harrow to be this explicit about the need to trust each other and be allies this soon. at least she recognises the need to trust eachother now

'walked in at just the wrong moment' again, another ominous reference to Harrow and Gideon's childhood. maybe this and the mention before are referring to Harrow's whole necromancy-ing her parents? but its so vague it could be something else

ok weird ancient note with the words 'give Gideon my congratulations'. given how long that rooms been sealed up, unless there's some strange immortality shenanigans going on, its not referring to our Gideon. but the phrasing still does to me make it sound like its referring to a person ... Gideon's mother had said only that name when they arrived and the Ninth simply assumed it was the name of her child, but perhaps instead she knew some secret about Canaan House, and was repeating that instead?

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lemon-natalia · 15 days

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 13

never thought Ianthe would be the one to get into vintage fashion, but here we are. do you think there’s some necromantic version of depop out there?

i was wondering about the arm, but not sure i want to know who it belonged to. and there are limits to their healing abilities which is good to know, they can’t just regrow an entire limb

she also likes nude paintings, apparently. i did not need to know that

Ianthe may be making a jab about ‘indulgent fathers’ but it is definitely noticeable that the Emperor is paying more attention to Harrow, and i have a very bad feeling about it

oh i would not eat any soup, or food in general, Ianthe made - not just because i feel like she’s the type to poison people, but after the meat rain incident in GtN? Absolutely Not. actually i just wouldnt want to eat anything made by anyone in this universe, especially not the Lyctors

i know that Harrow is hardly even allies with Ianthe, but i’m still worried that she’s putting too much trust in her, she had her own agenda all of last book and though she has now achieved her primary goal of becoming a Lyctor … i still think she’s being a little too soft right now to not be hiding something else

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lemon-natalia · 3 months

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Gideon the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 18

right off the bat, Teacher seems very sure that this was not murder and keen not to have a full murder investigation. i don't think he's necessarily suspicious or anything, but he seems incredibly scared of whats down there, but maybe also not wanting others to find out about it? personally i'm not totally convinced, i feel like it could be a combination e.g. one of the other Houses let loose/awoke something in the lab on purpose

first proper look we've gotten at the Second House here, and, unsurprisingly for the literal military, they seem very into authority - also interesting that they're the ones apparently responsible for carrying out murder investigations, i suppose it makes sense given we haven't seen any other real form of law enforcement at all

and, of course, suspicion is falling on the Ninth now given they were the ones who found the bodies. honestly a little surprised they weren't suspected sooner

ok so, all those who have keys (other than the ninth), and thus, atm are the only ones who could feasibly have anything to do with the deaths are: the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, & Ianthe

Dulcinea having a key is intriguing, not only is she cleverer than she appears, she and Pro have been more active in their search than they've let on

it is possible the others of Third House were genuinely unaware that Ianthe had a key and possibly she has her own agenda, but this also feels like a very public and dramatic reveal. i don't trust that isn't a ploy to throw any suspicion away from Corona and Naberius.

Isaac and Jeannemary are just so determined to hunt whatever hurt Abigail and Magnus, its killing me. they're clearly grieving, and without oversight now, i'm very concerned they're gonna get themselves into big trouble

the way that Harrow just trusts implicitly now that Gideon locked the hatch 😢

hmmm Abigail hated heights, i can definitely understand given i also have a phobia of anything higher than a set of ground-floor stairs. its also a little strange given she would have had to descend that tunnel to get to the lab, but i don't think its necessarily suspicious or a big clue, she could have been willing to brave it for a larger goal

Harrow seems rather desensitised to the fact that two people just got murdered, but it makes sense given how much death she's surrounded with constantly. that being said girl two people just got murdered chill out

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 23

now we’re four months before the murder! really becoming a countdown now

Heralds are bees if bees were made of different types of blood? thats disturbing

again, the Emperor really wants her to learn to use the rapier - potentially he doesn’t want her using the sword that she and Gideon used previously as a Lyctor?

given Ortus the First’s seeming grief for Cytherea (based on his ... Weird relationship with her corpse) i can kinda see why he wants Harrow dead so much. not that its particularly logical, given Cytherea was very much trying to murder her and succeeded in a whole bunch of other people, but i suppose grief isn’t logical

oh Harrow you also love a corpse you have no place being disturbed by this. if anything its less disturbing, at least Ortus the First knew Cytherea when she was alive

‘And you’ve never asked yourself why’ exactly!! and Harrow again starts bleeding …

i feel like the growing tension between Ianthe and Harrow is gonna eventually come to a head, their alliance is very shaky

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 14

ok list of more foods in this world i don’t want to eat: weird tasting NecromancyFrozen™ food

given they’ve been around and cooking for themselves for about ten thousand years, do you think the Emperor & the Lyctors ever had at least one Masterchef night?

if the Emperor doesn’t drink his coffee out of one of a cheap novelty mug that says something like ‘World’s Best Emperor’ i will be sorely disappointed (should i be calling him John now? it feels weird to call him John. i’m not gonna call him John)

ohh there’s for sure something creepy and or mysterious in this guys private rooms. or maybe he just likes his privacy, who am i to judge

the cult of BOE, currently led by resident face of Boe, Captain Jack Harkness

also thats a cult thats been around an awful long time, wow. i … don’t know about the idea of Cytherea working for them, i feel like an insurgent group would want to come up with a slightly more surefire plan than ‘very slowly kill off everybody one by one’?

and how does he know that Harrow’s parents are dead? its possible as a very powerful necromancer, maybe he can just sense these things, but if someone has been through Harrow’s memories and altered them …

and Harrow just tells him, the secret that she kept for so many years, essentially no questions asked. i really can’t tell if this is because its someone she considers her god to be asking, or if there’s something more sinister

dude, you could at least pretend to be disturbed that making such a powerful necromancer needed the mass death of children. also i am very worried about whats going to happen to Harrow, or what he’ll do more generally, now he knows about this possibility

great, the Emperor is giving Harrow weird parent trauma 2.0, exactly what she needs right now i’m sure

BOE stands for the Blood of Eden … okay, interesting. and then he quotes King Lear immediately afterwards, i think my theory about this being the future is back in business baby

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Gideon the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 16

hell yeah, they're working as a team properly now!

i don't know why but i feel kinda bad for the dead amalgamate monster, i was starting to get a little attached :(

and another key!! one step closer to opening another locked door, the question is which one ... maybe the mysterious door X-22, but could really be any of the six locked doors Harrow mentioned earlier

ok whatever Harrow was doing seems to have worked the other way around and let Gideon in on her Necromancy-Vision, but from her reaction that doesn't seem like it was meant to happen. perhaps thats what the test was trying to find out, see if the candidates could achieve that level?

Harrow finally giving Gideon a compliment is quite satisfying. these last couple chapters have gone quite a way in making me appreciate Harrow as a character more

I feel like they're in a bit of a false sense of security rn, like somethings gonna attack them

Wait

Nope nope nope nope!!! 😢😢

I knew someone was gonna die sooner or later but why did it have to be Magnus and Abigail!?!! i literally gasped and punched my book when i read that last sentence

i am sobbing, Tamsyn Muir this is not okay to do to a person

y'all just really let me sit here and talk about how much i liked Magnus huh. at least they got one last cute anniversary dinner together, RIP

#just tear my heart out why dont you #i mean this is a world where necromancy exists you can get em back right? right? i am in denial #lemon natalia reads the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #the locked tomb #the locked tomb liveblog #tlt

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 10

ABIGAIL!! MAGNUS!!! someone made a comment about them featuring again in HtN that i was quite frankly dreading because i thought for sure it would be some kind of absolutely horrific fate with their souls, or body horror, or something, but this is probably as nice as it could be

altho, y’know, not ruling out some kind of future horrific ghost/body horror/meat-adjacent fate that could affect them or their dream (alternate universe???) versions

quite curious as what Matthias Nonius did that was so impressive actually

omfg there’s a Lyctor named Nigella whose primarily featured in a recipe document, Muir you hack

‘Harrowhark … found the concept of making eyes at one’s cavalier too revolting to bear’ oh Harrow, you have no idea

very interesting that there’s been so much focus lately on Ortus’s eyes in these flashbacks when one of the primary changes of becoming a Lyctor is in eye colour, that previously they were almost the same colour as Harrow’s, but here she can’t tell what colour they are

also, again someone asking a variation on the question ‘is this how it happens’, on some level Harrow, or at least her subconscious, seems to know its wrong

oh there’s an unsettling thought - if she hadn’t been killed off when she was last book, Abigail might’ve realised about the Ninth kids being murdered to create Harrow. i wonder what she would have done with that information.

‘she was more afraid of being a child again than anything else’ oh Harrow. wasn’t there a very similar line in GtN as well, or am i making that up?

ohh another message on a piece of paper! something about implantation of eggs and revenge? feels not necessarily like a threat to Harrow specifically, but still very unhinged and unnerving

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Gideon the Ninth Reaction - Epilogue

oh poor poor Harrow, she’s gotten everything she wanted at the beginning - to become a Lyctor, the Ninth’s future guaranteed - but now its come at the cost of one of the only people she really cared about

what am I gonna do without Gideon’s internal monologue and bad puns this doesn’t feel right 😢

i genuinely don’t know how Harrow’s gonna live with herself after this. it’s obviously not her fault, but wow is she guilt spiralling like hell

‘But you’re God’ Harrow he’s a white brunette man he’s not all that

‘She was the very best of us’ i do feel like you can still see this in Gideon’s interactions with Cytherea, especially in chapter 20. she was kind to Gideon to some degree, even if most of her persona was a front

no kidding i can imagine that all the Houses are gonna be very concerned about what the hell went down

no Gideon’s body … or Camilla or Coronabeth hmmm. Suspicious. i’m not convinced he’s telling the truth here

the Emperor is honestly a lot more understanding and more overall normal than i was expecting (bar the rainbow oil slick eyes obvs). that being said, i still don’t trust the dude

i really enjoy ‘chosen one’ characters who feel like they have to/do sacrifice themselves for the world (Aang & Korra, Earendil, Kendal from the Aurora webcomic, Adora), as well as inversions/subversions of that trope (e.g., Emperor Belos from The Owl House who's convinced he’s a saviour when he’s not), so i’m very interested to see where the character of the Emperor goes

all i can really say at the end of this book is that i have not been this emotionally devastated by a piece of media in a long time. gonna have a followup post shortly about my final thoughts on everything

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Gideon the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 30

Palamedes’ devotion to Camilla is remarkable, get yourself a man who would bury a body for you no questions asked

‘because i killed her parents’ ohhh damnnn. it was clear they committed suicide, but i had only thought that Gideon might have found their bodies or something, not actually been involved in what led up to their deaths

i cannot believe it is canon that young Gideon and Harrow devised Home Alone style booby traps for each other

oh shit Harrow actually unlocked the locked tomb? and telling her parents that was enough to make them commit suicide, and she was in the room when they did wtf. it’s obviously not actually Gideon’s fault, but that answers why exactly Harrow hated her so much at the start.

even with that reveal, the passage really skips around what exactly was in the locked tomb that’s so terrible…

also no wonder Gideon feels so damn guilty about the Fourth and Fifth deaths. its not just that she feels she could have saved them, but its building on all this trauma from when she was a kid of feeling responsible for Harrow’s parents deaths that she’s never been able to deal with

if Palamedes gets out of this book alive he should become a counsellor, he’s remarkably good at it. does this universe have therapy? Palamedes should invent therapy. please everyone desperately needs it

return of the mysterious piece of paper! Gideon isn’t quite as nonchalant about it as i thought she was. maybe Palamedes with all his knowledge about theorems will be able to make some sense of it

ngl i kinda wish we’d seen the process of Camilla putting Harrow in handcuffs, that sounds difficult. the mental image of Harrow just … pushing Pro’s head off is also pure comedy

rip that one priest with ‘salt and pepper hair’, i doubt you ever shall be named

ok i knew something shady was up with Dulcinea i didn’t think it was that her cavalier was a freaking zombie what. that might also explain her previous interest in Gideon, knowing that both of them were faking the whole cavalier thing to be there

there were like five different points throughout the chapter where i kept having a heart attack and being totally certain Dulcinea was dead only for her to start breathing again

‘some people will do anything to get … a-head’ y’know times are serious when Gideon Nav cannot appreciate a bad pun. also Ianthe is actually quite morbidly funny i won’t lie

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Harrow the Ninth Reaction - Chapter 2

‘i’m not a monster’ the fact that you’re saying that makes me think its not true buddy

the Emperor makes static sounds so he doesn’t have to speak to his Lyctor?? this guy is hilarious, glad someone’s providing the Gideon-style humour again

i spent half of this chapter being very confused as to whether ‘the Body’ was quite literally referring to Harrow herself, like she was that detached from herself? but now i’m pretty certain it is the Locked Tomb body

if he needed Lyctors so badly, i feel like there were more efficient ways of getting them than giving everyone an extended vacation in an abandoned building and just hoping they figured it out, dude

ohh i didn’t think that he was quite literally going to repopulate the Ninth with lab-grown people but okay

not the empty coffins for half of the Houses 😢 and a rose for Cytherea…

hmm the black cornea in the Emperor’s eyes reminds me of how Colum’s eyes became totally black in his last fight

good thing necromancy is second nature to Harrow, i wouldn’t be able to have this convo while this mentally out of it

if i’m understanding this correctly, the Resurrection Beasts are the revenants of dying planets?? thats a sick concept. also nine revenant beasts = nine planets?

and yeah, his offer to let Harrow go home really was false - she can’t no matter what with these things chasing her

uh ok we’re talking about Ortus now again i guess. dude is getting more page time now than when he was alive

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