Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
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stop looking at me, dick. Don’t. Don’t you dare look at me.”
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Gideon reached her arm out to steady Harrow’s sword hand, shifting the other arm around her in a strange embrace. Her fingers wrapped around Harrow’s, scratchy with callouses. The sheer weight of the thing still stretched the muscles of Harrow’s forearms painfully, but Gideon clasped her wrist, and despite the pain they lifted the sword together.
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“Your arms are like fucking noodles,”
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“I’m a necromance...
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“Yeah, well, hope you like lifting weights for t...
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They were cheek to cheek: Gideon’s arm and Harrow’s arm entwined, hol...
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Harrow looked back at Gideon, and Gideon’s eyes, as they always did, startled her: their deep, chromatic amber, the startling hot gold of freshly-brewed tea. She winked.
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“You’re already two hundred dead daughters and sons of our House. What’s one more?”
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“Now we kick her ass until candy comes out,” said Gideon. “Oh, damn, Nonagesimus, don’t cry, we can’t fight her if you’re crying.”
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“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it.”
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“Yes you can, it’s just less great and less ho...
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“Fuck you...
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“Harrowhark,” said Gideon the Ninth. “Someday you’ll die and get buried in the ground, and we can work this out then. For now—I can’t say you’ll be fine. I can’t say we did the right thing. I can’t tell you shit. I’m basically a hallucination produced by your brain chemistry while coping with the massive trauma of splicing in my brain c...
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“Too bad you didn’t marry him. You’re both into old dead chicks.”
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“One flesh, one end,” said Gideon, and it was a murmur
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Harrow said, “Don’t leave
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“The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also...
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“See you on the flip side, ...
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Then she sat there for a long time. Beside her, Gideon lay smiling a small, tight, ready smile, stretched out beneath a blue and foreign sky.
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“Please undo what I’ve done, Lord,” she said. “I will never ask anything of you, ever again, if you just give me back the life of Gideon Nav.”
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