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Baba Yellowlegs sitting on the back steps of her giant wagon, a chipped plate heaped with roast chicken parts resting on her knees, a pile of clean-licked bones littering the ground below.
Baba is a real one
“I bet you wipe your ass with gold.”
Pffffff
“When we’re not wiping our asses with gold, we need to find some way to amuse ourselves. Why not learn a little history?”
thats my prince right there
even the surviving Fae can’t access their powers. Some of them remain trapped in their animal forms.
Well thats horrifying
his eyes drifted to the small wooden door just a few feet away. A broom closet.
Diabolical levels of horny
“There is no hope,” Celaena said. “There is no hope in standing against him. Not now, not ever.”
Then how the hell are you so confident to lie about killing his marks
It was why Chaol had also chosen Dannan,
WHO?! Ooh that was close
“Chaol,” he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian’s eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. “Treat her well.”
Hes so baby
The thought stopped Chaol dead in his tracks. She was only eighteen.
*Mama Mia gasp*
Chaol was the Captain of the Guard.
I promise we don't have to keep reciting his title in full
Like Sam, Chaol was admired by almost everyone.
...is he?
And when they’d taken Sam from her, it hadn’t been because of anything Sam had done.
tangentially related I wish we could get a lil background on Sam. I'd like to "meet" him
WE HAVE THE CAPTAIN. WHEN YOU’RE TIRED OF STALKING US, COME FIND US HERE.
LOL SHIT OKAY WE POPPIN OFF
If they wanted Adarlan’s Assassin, they’d get her.
do you think when they talk to each other, they say Captain of the Guard and Adarlan's Assassin
Chaol didn’t know why they’d chained him up,
hot *CONNOR*
For the Captain of the Royal Guard, you were far too easy to capture.”
*snorts*
Chaol’s eyes flashed. “Only a coward captures men the way you did.”
hate this shit tbh. If you're fighting someone or trying to capture someone, you just get it done. Kicking in the balls isn't off the table do you get what I'm saying? You don't get points for honorable. I'd expect the Super Badass Captain of the Guard to understand that but alas
“A coward? Or a pragmatist?”
that's what I'm sayin
“She’s just one girl.” Though his guts were twisting at the thought of her in this place, with these people, though he was considering every possible way to get himself and Celaena out of here alive, he gave the man a grin. “Then you’re really in for a surprise.”
Insane strategy on kale's part to prepare his captors to handle Celaena MORE aggressively than they might otherwise have lmfao. He should be like "please she's just a smol bean very fragile" if he wasn't this clinically stupid
She’d been called Adarlan’s Assassin for a reason. Dramatic entrances were practically her art form.
THIS MAKES NO SENSE--
Nehemia was dead.
GODDAMMIT
She stared at him, panting through gritted teeth, her breath coming quicker and quicker before she roared, the sound filling the room, his blood, his world: “You will never be my friend. You will always be my enemy.”
my god this is so contrivedddddd. Is she an animal incapable of conscious thought? No she's not
“I don’t trust her with anything in there except hay.” Chaol
SHE'S LITERALLY JUST AN ANIMAL NOW IG LOL
and there was the horror and relief that he’d somehow used his power to stop Celaena’s hand before she stabbed Chaol, and that no one except Celaena had noticed.
Dorian saves the day
“I found a horse within seconds of her taking off, and she still outran me. Who can do that?”
I can't even
She hoped she would never see him again. If she did, she’d kill him.
even if what she believed to be true was true, this would still be an outsized reaction
He’d known the king wanted to question Nehemia. He’d known that the king—the most brutal and murderous monster in the world—had wanted to question her friend. And he hadn’t told her. Hadn’t warned her.
and you want to end his life over this
He was so stupidly honorable and loyal to the king
He's not. He instantaneously threw that away the second you guys decided to smash. He would leave it all for you lol
She rubbed her dirty hands on her face. “My headaches are worse,” she mumbled. “And those wings—they never stop.”
every time this book mentions wings I get nervous
All that would remain were the last words Nehemia had spoken to her. The last thing her friend had thought of her. You are nothing more than a coward.
she ate with that ngl
It would have been better if she’d stayed in Endovier. Better to have died there.
she is the most melodramatic person alive
“They drugged the water with a sedative,” Kaltain said as Celaena reached for the iron cup. “That’s what they do for me, too.” “Good,” Celaena said, and drank the entire thing.
hell yeah sister I was about to say, sweet free perks. But you beat me to it. That's honestly quite merciful of them when you think about it
He knelt by Celaena. She reeked of old blood, and her clothes were stiff with it. His throat tightened.
I really don't think they actually love each other because this is crazy
Chaol gently picked up Celaena, trying not to grunt at the weight,
how is the captain of the guard at all phased by the weight of this small woman lmao kale is so lame
He’d laid down on it that first night and realized what she was lying on, and opted for his couch instead. The least he could do right now was get her back to her own rooms.
this is so funny. the couch is my punishment
beckoning him to the bathing chamber. He hadn’t even thought of that—that Celaena might need to be cleaned up before getting into bed.
I don't know how to ask this delicately. Are you a fucking idiot?
And she would never, in a thousand lifetimes, let him in again.
Narrator: She would
Celaena put a hand against her chest. How absurd—how utterly absurd and useless—that her heart still beat and Nehemia’s didn’t.
no notes
let slip that she’d missed Nehemia’s funeral. She’d been too busy guzzling down sedatives and hiding from her grief in the dungeons to be present when they put her friend in the cold earth, so far from the sun-warmed soil of Eyllwe.
I'm not trying to kick you when you're down and you're allowed to be traumatized by damn Nehemia really clocked you when she said you were a coward I'm sorry oof
You are nothing more than a coward.
Like...
So Celaena didn’t get out of bed that day. And she didn’t get out of it the next.
"....Anyway, I choose not to learn from that"
Silently, she began to recite the names of her dead. And as the overseer raised his whip, she added her name to the end of that list and swung her ax into his gut.
oh boy--
“Any changes in her behavior?”
like she's a depressed hamster
“I’m probably overstepping my bounds—” “Then don’t say it,” Chaol growled.
Kale's real for that
Celaena had only started sitting in the chair because Philippa had come in yesterday and complained about the dirty sheets. She might have told Philippa to go to hell,
how are you THIS SPOILED?! How have they not simply killed you at this point? You are so lucky I can't even begin--
She did know one killer this monstrous. Grave.
...is that the name or
Grave knew the palace;
it is
Celaena locked her bedroom and spared a glance at Fleetfoot, who cowered under the bed
Fleetfoot is a child of divorce
An assassin had killed Nehemia, an assassin with a taste for the grotesque and a desire for notoriety. Finding Grave would take only a few questions.
is every assassin in this universe terrible at keeping a low profile? that kind of isn't the point of this profession generally
Once she found out where Grave was hiding, she’d turn his skin inside out. Worse than that, actually.
shudder to think how it can get worse than that
