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He reminded Rin very much of Jiang. It wasn’t simply his white hair or his slender frame, but the way he looked at her, as if he saw straight through her, not looking at her at all but a place behind her.
“Altan said you were having performance issues.” Baji choked and coughed into his food. Rin felt the heat rising in her cheeks. “Excuse me?”
Lmaooooo
“That’s not what I mean. Altan is used to winning. His entire life he’s been put on a pedestal.
FACTS
“He’s been away,” she said. A hail of arrows whizzed above them. Nezha ducked back below the barricade.
I love them but i do feel like Nezha might be playing her though i do feel like he likes her
“I’m not sorry about this,” Altan said, and jammed a fist into her solar plexus. Stunned, paralyzed, she sank to her knees.
FUCK YOU ALTAN
You children, murmured the Phoenix. You absurd, ridiculous children. My children. Altan looked stunned.
No—he looked pleased. “So that’s what it takes,” he said. She felt drained, as if the fire had burned up something inside her. She couldn’t even feel anger. She could barely stand. “Fuck you,” she said. “Fuck you.”
and you wonder why he’s not going to trouble himself with your little boy toy?”
God forbid a girl have.a friend
“You know who I am,” she said. “I am the guardian. I am the Traitor and the Damned. I am redemption. I am the girl’s last chance for salvation.”
The Queen im tellign yall
“The first line, undivided,” read the Talwu. “One is ready to move, but his footprints run crisscross.”
“The second line, divided,” read the Talwu. “The subject ascends to his place in the sun. There will be supreme good fortune.”
“The third line, divided. The end of the day has come. The net has been cast on the setting sun. This spells misfortune.”
“The fourth line, undivided,” read the Talwu. “The subject comes, abrupt with fire, with death, to be rejected by all. As if an exit; as if an entry. As though burning; as though dying; as though discarded.”
“The fifth line, divided. The subject is with tears flowing in torrents, groaning in sorrow.”
“A leader abandons their people,” read the Talwu. “A ruler begins a campaign. One sees great joy in decapitating enemies. This signifies evil.”
“Remember that time I said the Trials were as bad as Speer?” Kitay asked. “I was wrong. This is as bad as Speer. This is worse than Speer.”
Im so relieved Kitays alive
But they came at night, and they . . . they captured Irjah. They flayed him alive over the city wall so that everyone could see.
Damn :(
I blacked out over and over but every time I awoke they were still going, a different man would be on top of me, or maybe the same man . . . they were all the same after a while. It was a nightmare, and I couldn’t wake up.”
Hi im crying now
“I know you can.” Venka’s voice climbed in pitch. “I heard what they said about you. You have to burn them. Whatever it takes. Swear it on your life. Swear it. Swear it for me.”
“By the time the Hesperians liberated the facilities, Altan had spent half his life in a lab. The Federation scientists drugged him daily to keep him sedated.
afraid of what he might do in his quest for vengeance. And I am afraid that he is right.”
“Yes.” She knew, without asking, what was imprisoned in the Chuluu Korikh. Unnatural criminals, who have committed unnatural crimes.
“Men are selfish and petty,” argued Erlang Shen, Grand Marshal of the Heavenly Forces. “Their life spans are so short that they give no thought to the future of the land. If we lend them aid, they will drain this earth and squabble among themselves. There will be no peace.”
He issued a heavenly order forbidding any entity in the Pantheon from interfering with mortal matters.
In her haste to escape from her brother, Sanshengmu landed badly on Earth.
The first man who found her, a soldier, raped her and left her for dead.
“Not all humans,” said the hunter. “Not me.” By the time they reached his tent, Sanshengmu had fallen in love.
Its always a hunter aye
He impaled the hunter with his great three-pronged spear and killed him.
I don’t know how much control we’ll have, only that we’ll be powerful. Do not try to stop us. Do not try to join us. When we come, you should flee.”
He thought the Gatekeeper must have intentionally closed himself in the Chuluu Korikh. We thought we might extract him,
Jiang jiang jiaag
But now, she had seen and suffered too much. The Empire didn’t need someone reasonable. It needed someone mad enough to try to save it.
You can behead them, stab them, hang them, but the body will keep moving. You dismember the body, and still the pieces will skitter to rejoin the others.
Does this mean tyr might be alive
Suni and Baji were sent to the Baghra desert because Jiang got scared of them.
Yike
The tunnel was so black inside it seemed to swallow the sunlight whole. Glancing into the dark interior, Rin felt a sense of dread that had nothing to do with the darkness.
“I feel it, too,” Altan said quietly. “It’s the mountain. We’ve been sealed off.”
This stresses me out
This was an army they would not be able to control. This was an army that could raze the world.
He opened his eyes, looked them up and down, and blinked. “You might have knocked first.” Rin stepped toward him. “Master?”
IM DEAD
Jiang tilted his head sideways. “Have you gotten taller?” “We’re here to rescue you,” said Rin,
Lmaoooo
Jiang looked pained. “It’s easy to be brave. Harder to know when not to fight. I’ve learned that lesson.”
“I am terrified,” Jiang acknowledged. “But only because I’m starting to remember who I once was. Don’t go down that path.
“You promised us you wouldn’t hurt us. I thought you cared about us. We were scared.
This is some golum behavior
She tried to move and discovered that she was bound: hands tied tightly behind her back, legs strapped together.
Oh god the horrible things theyre goin to do to her
Strapped to some flat bed. Rin’s peripheral vision was limited to the top half
Rin’s eyes darted around in terror. Shelves filled the sides of the room. They brimmed with jars that contained feet, heads, organs, and fingers, all meticulously labeled.
I think fear could kill me
The place that had been liberated by the Hesperians. The place that should have been destroyed after the Second Poppy War.
But when the Hesperian troops liberated me, they told me I could never go back. They told me there was nothing on the island but bones and ash.”
“Our god is an angry god,” said the woman who looked like Rin. “It will not let this injustice rest. It demands vengeance.”
The twitching stopped. Altan dropped the body and stepped away from it. He turned to Rin. His eyes burned a brighter red than they ever had before. “Okay,” he said. “Now we run.”
CHEFS KISS
“It will be harder for you,” Altan said. “You’ll have to live with the consequences. But you’re brave . . . you’re the bravest person I’ve ever met.” “Don’t leave me,” she begged.
:(
Stay away, screamed the Woman. Stay far away from here. No, Rin thought. You can’t keep me away. I’m coming.
