Beautiful Redemption (Caster Chronicles, #4)

by Kami Garcia

Death is the beginning of Immortality. —MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE

It must be a warm day, for January.

January already? Ethan died first thing on December 22nd.

the good thing about the truth is it’s true, and there’s no arguing with the truth. You may not like it, but that doesn’t make it any less true.

good

life

“Car nut?”

"Corn nut?"

“Drink up, son,” Harlon said.

Harlon isn't in the kitchen.

“Over at Greenbrier, by the old Duchannes graves. Stuck you in the mud like a possum-bitten house cat.”

Then why isn't Ethan stuck in Greenbrier rather than His Garden of Perpetual Peace?

The rocker stopped. Bad sign.

Are they back in the living room? I thought they were still in the kitchen.

but she didn’t answer. She just kept staring at the paper. “If you’re going to start asking yourself why your aunt does anything, you’ll be busy for the rest of eternity.”

Looks like she answered.

“It’s not a Cast. It’s more like a meditation.

“In death, lie. In living, cry. Carry me home to remember to be remembered.” The words hovered in the air, like a strange silvery bubble. I reached out to touch them, but they faded out of sight as quickly as they had appeared. I looked at my mom. “Did you see that?” My mom nodded. “Casts are different in this world.”

I thought the scroll wasn't a Cast.

tin

thing

headstone

wood cross

They took him away to the Far Keep.

ECW needs saving????

here?

here!

I found myself standing in the tunnel, right across from the Temporis Porta.

The Temporis Porta is above ground. Not in the tunnel.

As I rounded the corner, my dad was pouring himself a glass of sweet tea. “Did Ethan call?” Amma stiffened, her cleaver poised over an onion, but my dad didn’t seem to notice. She started chopping. “Caroline has him busy waitin’ on her. You know how she is, classy and sassy, just like her mamma was.” My dad laughed, his eyes crinkling in the corners. “That’s true, and she’s a terrible patient. She must be driving Ethan crazy.”

I have to wonder about Christmas and New Years. No call. No visit. Nothing. And Aunt Caroline must be spelled as well, right?

I guess it was true what people said about cats seeing spirits. I just never figured I would be the one to prove it.

This has already been proven.

She was standing behind me in the empty office, on the other side of the counter.

Not behind him anymore.

She hasn’t touched one of her puzzles in months.”

It has been months?!

“Can’t put the molasses back in the jar,

“You know what they say about curiosity and cats. May not kill ya, but it’ll get ya inta a heap a trouble

There always seemed to be something worse around the next corner. There was always something to be afraid of, even if you hadn’t figured out exactly what it was yet.

She nodded. “Lila Jane more than anyone. She’s been kickin’ around here longer than the whole lot a us.”

Doubtful. Aunt Prue's five husbands are still there.

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be.

“There are more reasons for people’s actions than the number of actions that are actually set in motion.”

Incubuses

Incubus Incubi Succubus Succubi

things often are more complicated than we think.”

I started down the stairs and stepped off the porch.

I made my way down the stairs.

Ethan already stepped off.

As if words themselves were more powerful than anything that could actually happen to you. Maybe they were.

There are lots of things we choose not to see. Doesn’t mean they aren’t there, even if we wish they weren’t.”

Whatever the Keepers were up to, they definitely didn’t want anyone to know about it.

I was wondering this myself. What do the Keepers have to gain from Lena claiming herself, an apocalypse, and adding Ethan's death to the Caster Chronicals? The end of the Old Order and the start of the New Order changes the way things were, such as Marian's punishment for Liv's actions. And it was stated the Keepers like to kill off Waywards. Why?

Exu circled overhead now, as if he knew exactly where he was going.

Exu does know where he is going.

calling

cawing

Angelus whipped around,

How do you whip around while facing someone? How do you whip around while sitting at a desk with elbows leaning on the platform?

Angelus turned his back on Xavier,

Angelus didn't stand up. Xavier did, but not Angelus.

Angelus stood over the Keeper,

Angelus needs to step around the desk first.

Xavier whipped around,

Again... How do you whip around while facing someone?

His unnaturally large eyes widened.

Xavier turned to face me,

I thought Xavier already turned considering Ethan saw his eyes widen.

How I get there isn’t as important as getting there.”

Read, in Spanish. L. I. B. R. O.

Read in Spanish is Leer. Book in Spanish is Libro.

sticking one hand back inside the cereal box.

This suggests Mitchell's hand was in the cereal box earlier. It wasn't. He merely grabbed it and froze.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities.”

I put my arms around my uncle.

I did not picture them on the same side of the table.

What I saw was so surprising it knocked me right to the floor.

I felt John’s arms behind me, pulling me back to the floor.

She already fell to the floor from the shock of seeing Ridley.

On the outside of the golden cage.

I slid down to the floor across from her, taking her hand through the cage bars.