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August 29 - September 13, 2025
I deserve to live.
Snow Maiden wept for the great Kwiriki, and he understood humans had goodness in them, her nursemaid had told her. Only when she wept for him could he know that she had the sea in her, too.
‘One turn of the sun it will last, and no more.’
His slender hands, untouched by toil, made short work of her sash.
Oh we’re getting spicy??
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A bonesetter. Her father paid a small army of them to crack his neck and back.
ughhhhh jealous
‘I don’t need anyone to save me. All I ever ask is that you not abandon me.’
Oh, my heart
‘Tajorin pa Osipa.’
it’s been a minute since I read a fantasy book but still, I cannot read this for the life of me
Taking in its scent, Tunuva closed her eyes as Esbar pleasured her.
woah ok full stop I was notanticipating thisn
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Siyu was trapped in quicksand – unable to grow without the world, not trusted in the world until she grew.
Oh ouch, is this about me
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Tunuva
At this point I can’t ignore that her name sounds a like a Samoan surname and her description is that of a rugby player so in my head she’s tagata as fuck
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You are the flame that warms, Tunuva Melim. The flame that seals a wound.’
‘because I felt the same fear before I married your mother. The fear that in knitting my flesh to hers, I would have to sacrifice some . . . secret place inside me.’
But since we were friends as children, would it be improper to ask if you would call me Wulf?’ ‘Yes,’ Glorian said
she's so real cuz why would u name ur kid wulf
As Florell stroked her hair, Glorian opened her eyes. ‘It’s risen,’ she whispered. After, she would not remember saying it at all.
okay..... shitting my pants
the city was one great rainbow.
not the foreshadowing
Beneath it stood the Rainbow Throne.
lmaoooo if not to drive home that this book is gay af
while others sipped from cups of sea-aged wine.
how does one sea-age wine? Googling
She was beside Esbar on the day she had Siyu, and she was in love all over again.
She pressed her eyes shut, forcing that time back into its deep pit. Siyu needed her.
No wonder this book is so long. This is way too much description for giving birth
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‘Is there a cure?’ ‘No.’
aaaaahhhhhhhh
‘I never thought, when I was young and foolish, that you could grow more beautiful.’
Ahehe, oh, why are my feet a-swingin
The king . . . is dead.’
Ouh!!
‘Hello, little sunray.’ Tunuva gave her a gentle kiss. ‘It’s all right. You’re safe.’
oh I feel slightly uncomfortable about the future
The blaze cooked the Master of Beasts like a steak
😭😭😭😭
‘Let me remind you how slow I can be.’
Damn? Is that the rizzler??
‘What a peculiar person.’ Florell shook her head in exasperation. ‘Cloths over our mouths and noses – how are we to breathe?’
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‘You did tell me to find a pursuit I enjoy.’ ‘Mara, I meant hawking, not housebreaking.’
And I love that for her
‘We fall together. Always together. It’s us, Kanifa,’ she sobbed. ‘It’s us!’
She’s sobbing, I’m sobbing, we’re all just sobbing
Some people need to call others evil, so they can seem pure and righteous in comparison, or to purge contempt they hold in secret for themselves.
‘Believe he was born rotten, or that something rotted him.
Hobbes vs. Rousseau CLOCKED
‘Dumai,’ Nikeya whispered. ‘I found you.’
RAAAAHHHH
Julain kneaded a few precious drops of lavender oil into her hair,
Girl tea? Does this work??
‘I rode a horse today. A chair is less likely to throw me.’
Harharhar
‘We pledged our love by water, under the night sky. If you still want to be wed to me, then you already are, Nikeya.’
it’s hot in here. Is it hot in here? Open a window Jesus Christ
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‘The pain is in her back, my lady,’ Bourn said in clipped tones. ‘Lying on it will not help. An upright position is far more—’
YES. REJECT MODERNITY
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His left arm had been bitten off at the elbow.
Oh damn
