Status Updates From The Ragpicker King (The Chr...

Why has really nothing happened and yet I’m still into it

They have to think I'm all alone. Can you understand that? They must believe that I am at my weakest, completely undefended. That there is no one in Marivent who will lift a hand to protect me. It will make them overconfident, and when they strike they will do so because they think I am alone. But I am not alone, am I? Not entirely."UFFF I fuckin love that part of Conor tho..and his father responding to him👀

“Conor had always inhabited a world in which he only trusted a few things: his connection to Kel and, later, his feelings for Lin.”💔Im so sad I want them together now.. As he spoke, he saw Lin's face, the tears in her eyes as she left his room. He remembered her telling him that she loved him, and though he knew it might never matter, he might never see her again, it gave him strength.”JAIL TIME FOR THIS

"Yes. You sent me to steal your own locket," he said. "You knew I'd open it and find the grass ring there. You knew I'd torture myself over what it meant."💔another couple broken…Antonetta did kinda manipulate Kel by lying about HER BEING PROSPER BECK🧍‍♂️smart girl tho..and she wanted the charter for him to be free from being a sword catcher🥹

Even if it took her away from her friends, her family. From Conor. From all that she loved.
She turned to Aron, who was watching her with his desert eyes.
"It is up to you," he said. "As the Goddess chooses, I will do."🫣so now ik where the plot will go next book and Lin leaving with Aron for the Ordeal..

Wait I lowkey hope they become besties bc she’d be so good for him and his identity crises

"Tabe Asher Benezar," he said in Ashkar. "Sape zenevet altah wakhabe.
Pekanwa kol gemzo zawahena."
I am Asher Benezar, I was exiled by my father. I think you know my story.Well shit🧍‍♂️I wasn’t expecting The Ragpicker King to be the exiled kid..

To her shock, he dropped to his knees in front of her, his head lowered, his hands extended toward her, palms up.
"I acknowledge you," Aron said, "as the Goddess who has been promised. And I present myself as your guardian, as my ancestor Judah Makabi guarded the Shekinah Adassa during the fall of Aram."AHHHHHH🫣I kinda feel Cassie will play with those two..

"Don't you understand? You are deadly to me, Lin, like poison or a blade. I cannot be near you."
"But I-"
"Leave me," he snarled. "Consider it a royal order. Stay away from me. Stay away from the Palace. Go."💔🥹STOP the way she left crying and told him the truth about his Father..can’t believe this two left their relationship like this and I have to wait another book🧍‍♂️

"No. Turning yourself to stone will not make you strong. Hurting Kel will not cauterize the bleeding—"
"Look at you," Conor said, "so sure I plan to murder him. And yet at the same time you say you love me. What am I meant to be-lieve? For to imagine that you love a murderer, Lin, seems out of the question."now I kinda get it..he was trying to push her away and prob never wanted to kill Kel🥹

You are my weakness, Lin—and so is Kel. You are chinks in my armor that can be pierced through."
"Trust is not a weakness," Lin said. "And if you cannot trust me, at least trust Kel. He has only ever tried to help you."AHHHH so intense

"What makes you think you know me so well?" he whispered.
"Because," she said, "I love you."
She felt his body go rigid as iron. "Lin," he said. "You sent me away—"AHHHHHHHHH❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🥹stop it I can’t.. "You are accepting my offer? You are telling me you will be my risres? Because I cannot offer you anything else, Lin, not even now, with Anjelica gone." The way he kissed her..

She rushed across the room and threw her arms around his neck.
She felt him sway a little in surprise. Then his free arm came around her and he pressed her hard against him
He spoke roughly, into her hair. "I knew the wall of the Sault had come down. I pictured you lying among the rubble."AHH🥹❤️‍🔥they are perfect for each other ok..

"I don't want to leave you," Kel said. He held out his hands. "I am your Sword Catcher," he said softly, and he saw Conor's eyes shine in the dimness. "I bleed so that you will not bleed. I die so you can live forever."🥹poor Kel has been hurt so much

shit is about to go DOWN

My love language is princes wearing feathers and asking someone they are obsessed with but mad at to dance with them mixed with whatever Merren was doing when he said "I'm so glad you said that. You see, I've already poisoned his wine"

"I have begun to understand, in these recent days," Lin said, “that sometimes we are chosen to do things we do not wish to do, but that if we do not do them, there will be no one to take our place."

Fuck her name is Mariam not Miriam🧍‍♂️

I am in love with this world and with the characters! Loving the little team The Ragpicker King has, they’re so silly yet so powerful. I know bad is coming and I don’t want it to happen 😭

Your purpose is to help mend the world by protecting the Goddess when she re-turns. And if you fail here, you will render purposeless not only your own life, but also the life of every Exilarch who comes after you." Mariam folds her arms over her chest. "So what are you going to do?"AHHH GO OFF MIRIAM💞I’m happy tho she’s healed

Girl Joss is def Seven OR it’s Jolivet…the way he lied when Kel told him to tell Conor that he was meant to work with the Ragpicker King for info🧍‍♂️well I fuckin hope he gets out of the Trick because that poor man thought the gang there was his family besides Conor and he is clearly being manipulated🫣

“I knew Conor was in love with someone he could not have; how could I not recognize the same situation I found myself in?"well Anjelica played everyone so fuckin good🫡but it’s so sad that Conor is suffering from not being able to be with Lin..Elsabet is still very much cooku and Kel BEING SET UP🧍‍♂️

He was staring down at her hands. She followed his gaze, and what she saw was horrifying. She could see clear through the skin and muscle, to the bones beneath, which burned with a bright-red fire.🧍‍♂️oh well fuck..she has fire..that’s because of the kings blood BUT she healed Miriam completely??wtf?im so scared there’s nothing left of this book

"I went to speak with Lin," Kel said, taking care with his words.
"Her trial is very soon. I wanted to wish her well."
Conor's hand tightened on the papers he held. "How is she?" Kel hesitated. I cannot tell you that she is even now in Marient.
That she is with your father, the King. That when I speak your name to ber, her eyes fill with a rare light, just as yours do when you say hers.AHH JUST LET THEM BE HAPPY

An Ashkar physician. The great fear of the Malgasian Ashkar woman of great power. One who could become the Goddess.😳he gave her his blood for the Source Stone and he told her to unleash her true power…she has to be the Goddess

"A phoenix," Lin breathed.
The Malgasi had captured and preserved an ancient power. For gen-crations they had kept it imprisoned, in a huge cage below their throne room. It was from this source that they drew their awful power. 😮well that scene with the king and Lin was sick I fuckin love flashbacks…also Conor has the same power..that’s why his back had no scars from the whipping..

"I do not want to love him," she said. "It frightens me more than anything has ever frightened me. Can you understand that?" Just stab me with a knife💔it’s so sad they can’t be together but they can but it’s all too complicated💔

"I doubt the thought of such an offer has ever even crossed his mind before. He is the Prince. He has always known that his heart was not really his to give."
"He didn't offer me his heart. He offered me a house."
"It's all he can offer,"True💔it’s all he can give Lin but Kel knows he wants her so bad

Lin's mouth trembled. "He set me free, but I still felt bound to him. I feel bound to him even now. As if there is some cord that connects us both—and I feel it even when he is not there."AHHH STOP🥹"He offered you all those things? Then he's desperate to keep you with him. I didn't realize how desperate."

"Are you in love with him?" he asked. "Because he is certainly in love with you." 😮 “You are complete in yourself. You need nothing from him; you never have. And he cannot understand it. You might as well put him in a lifeboat and set him adrift.”Hahaha true Conor feels lost without her but he knows his duty to his people💔