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It’s not as if we’re leaving him in danger. This isn’t a bad horror film.”
Girrrrrl
Language words
Are they in the Box case
“Did it hurt?”
People only talk like this in movies
“If that’s the only way to understand the Language.”
Meaning if there was a second method the mark wouldn't hurt?
but you are not my type.”
She racist
“But I like you, I think you’re clever and witty
Huh this must be an inversion of the standoffish male having hot women hit on him
I appreciate you being absolutely charming,
And before this goes any further, my type is darkly dangerous and fascinating, of dubious morality.
She like bad boys
“I would have enjoyed partnering you,” he said. “Really. You would too.” “Allow me to inform you that I am an exquisite bed partner,”
What he said was no diss
have to study, and you need to sleep.
Dafuq are you studying now? You need to sleep eventually too. Study btw missions
immortality.
Well taking over the world would just be cliche
Once they grew old, they retreated to work in the Library for as long as they chose, with only the occasional trip outside if necessary.
So you're old most of your lifespan? HARD PASS
Common horror or fantasy literature
Again this is like she thinks fiction is literally real in her world but that's never been established.
If each work of fiction is an alernate somewhere are there different levels of reality for alternates of alternates?
are there main and side characters in these worlds?
The Library could use unique books to connect and bind itself to particular alternate worlds.
Ohhhhhh i thought they literally just collected them
But what could someone else—someone from outside the Library—do with those linking books?
I'm Sure their power is link based only
Irene realized that she was tapping her finger against the papers. She deliberately stopped herself. Habits were dangerous; they could get you killed.
Oh noes you'll be identified by your finger tapping
Irene and Kai
So she slept like 3 hours?not smart
She didn’t remember noticing a bar when she’d been inside, but she might have missed it.
Not important
unless the command or sentence specifies otherwise,
“If I’d had a family,
Bro could be dead
and my descent,
R u fairy?
five years.”
Is this his alternate?
you check the shelves on that wall.”
Or he could use sorcery. She's The only one who can't
It wasn’t even a personal curiosity. It was a simple, impersonal, uncontrollable need to know.
leather.”
Skin
Dominic Aubrey’s features looked so different like this.
U don't say
“We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.”
are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.”
“Vermin preventative defence,”
It says right here on my pdychic paper
“Todd,”
Spy
She remembered seeing the chain last time,
But she asdumed it wasn't important because protagonist blinders
She felt him catching her as it all went dark.
Mastered the skill of the timely swon
The place was crammed with . . . with stuff.
U don't say
character type
She was supposed to be manipulator, not manipulated.
You have done very little manipulative so far sweetie
isn’t the only book that’s gone missing, is it?”
I may have reasons to believe that you are reliable
She couldn’t stand the thought of being
her.”
In this scene Vale shows a lot of emotion even thoug were not in his head. Unlike how Irene is so tightly wound around exposition
He might even be Alberich.
a few gifts from my family heritage. One of them is—well, not exactly prognostication,
Plot savvy
if he had been Alberich, then they’d already be dead. Just like Dominic Aubrey.
Except for the one from Vale’s family. That one they could afford to give back, and he’d appreciate it.
“How can we possibly trust someone who’d betray their family?”
“But he left them!”
I sense a character arc
intoxicating.
“But you’ve already told me that you don’t have any living family, haven’t you? So it’s not a choice you’ll ever have to make.”
Do not follow. He'll Never get initiated? Honor only applies to family?
honourless, family-betraying creature
Wow this reaction is so in proportion
It should get better in a few days, but at the moment I may not be able to open a way to the Library.
It would keep me out in the same way that it’d keep out anything chaos tainted. So we don’t have a convenient escape route.”
Ahem You don't have an escape route. Woukd you let Kai die?
