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But I’ll mold you, yes?”
Groomer behavior
Shall we promise to be honest with each other from now on?
Bullshit
“One day I’m going to be big enough to kill you.”
Mm purr
“This really could not be more fascinating,” Father says. “What if I were to tell you that Thiel struck her?”
Everything is an experiment to him
“There’s something I’d like to discuss,” she said. “Do you remember the time you came into my mother’s rooms to say something to my father that made him angry and he brought you downstairs through the hidden door? What did he do to you down there?”
Not even sliding into it jeez
He wrote in large letters with a sharp piece of graphite, because graphite was easier to control than ink, and he wrote with a ruler as a guide, since he could not see what he was writing. He also used a small set of movable wooden letters as a reference to help him keep his own ciphers straight in his mind.
Good on him for perservering
Giddon and I
Would never have thought they'd be partners
“As Your Majesty’s request was disobligingly unspecific,
Yo does no one respect Bitterblue???
“A city is a living organism, always changing—”
This dude oh my god
Bitterblue wore a knife in her boot during the day and slept with knives in sheathes on each arm at night. It was what Katsa had taught her to do.
Of course Katsa was involved
Skye favors men,
Whaaaaaaaaaaaat
“Well then, we should give her a color name.
I never realized until now they all had color names
“What about you? Do you steal both on land and on sea?”
I don't think this was a great a comeback as she thought
“I’m a patient person.”
Like father like daughter
She plunged the knife into his chest as Katsa had taught her, under the breastbone and up with all her strength.
Damn bitch get it!
“Oh, but it’s awful, isn’t it, Po, so much lying? Especially to people who trust you.”
Wow no mercy girl
He’s nice-looking, isn’t he? A beard quite suits him.
I'm going to riot if he's the love interest
The question seemed both to startle Thiel and bewilder him.
They had to have been fucking
“Sparks,” he said, “you’re not invited.”
After she helped Teddy? Really?
Thiel considered her silently, hands folded before him. She didn’t understand the peculiar hopelessness in his eyes. “Thiel,” she said, almost begging. “Please. What is it? What’s wrong?”
If him and Ashen were in love, could Bitterblue remind him too much of her? Is Thiel possibly her father?
ending with a gargoyle that vomited rainwater into the fountain pool.
What a visual
“You should attack me, and we’ll see what he does. He’s probably quite bored—it’ll be a relief to him.”
She's struggling my god
Just before the moment of impact, Po shifted to one side, crouched, scooped Katsa up, and, with admirable precision, propelled them both sideways into the pool.
Yep, that's them alright
“Katsa will hold a grudge,” Giddon said, still grinning, “for years.”
Rightfully so you twat waffle
“The queen has no time,” said Teddy simply. “The queen is at the helm of a kingdom that’s waking up from the thirty-five-year spell of a madman. She may be older now than she was, but she still has more headaches and more complications and confusions to deal with than the other six kingdoms combined. I’m sure she’ll get to it when she can.”
I love that they don't hate her
“It pleases me that you’re kind,” he said.
So sweet
had eyes green as moss and hair bright and wild, like a sunset or like fire.
Fire. Why was he obsessed with her and the Dells?
“You’re not invited to any more meetings.”
Immature move
“Oh, don’t be a twit, Death.”
Finally!
“Runnemood,” she said instead, “I hear you’re supposed to be good at manipulating people. Try a little harder to make me like you, all right? I’m the queen. Your life will be nicer if I like you.”
DAAAAAAAAAMN
“Then don’t answer it,” Katsa said, surprised. “I’m not Po.”
Sweet
“That’s a matter for me to discuss with a healer,” she said, holding his eyes to let it sink in. “Are you a healer, Thiel?”
GOT HIS ASS
“You little bitch,” Saf said wonderingly.
WOAHHHH bro calm down
Marching to the bed, he sat, crossing legs and arms.
So sassy
If he touches you, I’ll come in and choke him to death.”
Yes cousin purrr
“Ironic,” he said, “for I’ve been thinking of how much you make me think of him.”
Oooof
Po was asleep.
You run him ragged!!! You talk to him constantly in your head whenever you need him! He's fucking tired and has his own shit to do my GOD
“Did you know that Tilda and Bren live as a couple and they want Teddy to give them a baby?”
I KNEW IT
“It’ll be fun to ruin your reputation. This is a boring conversation. Are we done?” Bitterblue slapped him, as hard as she could. When he grabbed her wrists, she kicked him in the shin, then kicked him again, until finally, swearing, he let her go. “You’re a bully,” he spat out. “You’re a brat,” she said, shoving at him, tears spilling onto her cheeks.
Girrrrrrl
What was the balance of power in their bed?
Raffin is absolutely the bottom
I’ll be with you,
Girl you haven't done shit sit down
Both of you will learn how to be king,” she said, meaning Bann, of course, and more grateful than she’d ever been before for Bann’s groundedness, to balance out Raffin’s abstraction. Perhaps they could make a king together.
My heart is swelling
Or Hava. These are the people I trust, she thought, rolling eyes at herself.
You met her ONCE
“Madlen. Would a person ever cut himself,” she said, “on purpose?”
Oh shit i didn't think about this that makes total sense!
and for rot’s sake, hurry up!”
She really is pitiless. Cares for no one but herself
When he suspected me of lying, he cut me, and whenever he caught me in a lie, he tortured my cats.” A tear ran down Death’s face.
My goodness
“There’s a sour cream cake.”
Ew what???
“I don’t know where it came from! It’s a magical book!”
Madleeeeen
‘Gracelingian.’”
Kashore, you infuriate me to no end with your shitty unthoughtful names
But tell me, when a woman is lying on a table in her perfection, how am I not to experiment?
Disgusting
