Status Updates From Burn Cycle (Cry Pilot #2)

“‘Deploy for where, san?’ ‘Interplanetary space. There’s one more job’” OH YEAAAAHHHH

“So this is Anvil Squad now: Jag, M’bari, Shakrabarti, Ting, Cali, and me” ☹️ i miss li

“Shakrabarti lenses her a filthy proposal—on squad channel, because he’s generous with his invitations. She responds with gawky enthusiasm and he crawls in after her, looking like a fallen angel bent on desecration” isn’t ting only 16???? and shakrabarti has to be older then a minor im pretty sure… 🤢

“‘We watched the queen stab you in the heart, soldier, and we watched you crawl out of your grave to keep fighting’” ☹️☹️

“We don’t even see the needle fire. We’re lucky, that’s all, spinning and twisting, and the spear impales our saddle off-center”

has he always talked about the cav like that? like using we? cause it feels different and he did just connect with it more 😀

“‘The queen secured the missile with that bubble and she’s cutting through the dome’” 😧

(god that was so goooooodd!! they shot the missile and we thought the squad was all gonna die and then the queen literally swallowed it up 😭 oh god and now it’s escaping the dome)

“‘I mean they were designed as probes or sensors to—to translocate through the dome. The tech is bizarre and backward and—‘ ‘Designed intentionally?’ I ask.”

OH SHUT UPPP i’m so excited to finally learn what’s been happening 😭

“There’s a sound like glass breaking. A crystal spear thrusts from the stalagmite and pierces Hallmark’s CAV”

they’ve ended chapters like this SO many times and i eat it the fuck up every time 😭

“I barely listen, because Vila Vela is putrefying around me and I’m surprised at how much it hurts. I loved this city. I know I’m idealizing my childhood, but I remember a swirl of beauty and enchantment and overspilling exuberance. Despite everything, I’ve kept that image in my heart . . . until now” ☹️

“‘Not Ting.’ I drive my trenchknife through his neck and into his brain. ‘She stays free.’” HOLYY SHITT WHAT I WAS NOT EXPECTING THAT ARE YOU KIDDINGG MEEEEEE

i’m actually in shock that was so…

“‘I’m lying,’ he interrupts. ‘I won’t do it. I’ll have my daughter capture her. Sarav won’t hesitate, will she?’ ‘No.’ ‘If you refuse to secure Ting, you’ll spend your life in blinders…’” BRO 😧

“‘Even though anything. What kind of family do you have?’ ‘One without war criminals.’ Yeah, well. Okay. Good point” 😭

“‘Tingting is a technopath.’”
“‘If I’m wrong, we’ll release her with an apology. But I’m not wrong.’”

for a second i thought rana-cain was gonna be fine with it 😭 LEAVE HER ALONE PLEEASSSEEE

“Not Maseo Kaytu: Maseo Timor. My previous name, my childhood name, my patriot name”

OH GOD. something about this whole scene, like the way it’s written where you follow his thoughts exactly, feels so eerie. ugh it’s so good

“‘Booyah!’ Cali bellows, and lenses me, ‘The fuck does that mean?’ ‘No idea,’ I tell her. ‘Asshole,’” LMAO

“She doesn’t answer, but my lens reveals that lampreys attacked every LostMost simultaneously, targeting the engine rooms”

“So yeah, all of them. Dead”

OH GOD 😭 are they sentient? did they know they found the hatchery somehow? IM SO INVESTED

“The Hatchery is Vila Vela”

BROOOO SHUT UP :O i literally got chills… THIS BOOK CONTINUES TO AMAZE ME HOLY HE K

this is such a good plot mannnn

“‘Today is tomorrow,’ Li says. ‘They found the Hatchery.’” OHHH let’s goooo i’m so ready

(also kinda horribly terrified cause i don’t want another round of deaths in the squad like last time 😭)

“‘I’m going to recommend your removal from Tsarina.’”

“‘I love you, Maseo,’ Rana says. ‘I love the whole sprawling mess of you. But I can’t trust you.’”

OH NOO 😭 this book is brutal man

“‘You told me not to poke or prod, so all that lamprey-intelligence 61-packet stuff is unpoked and prodless’” (Ting) <3

“And one thing hasn’t changed: all the light in the room still bends toward her” RANA’S BACKKKKK

And Maseo is actually so in love with her 😭 I hope their story goes well but I kinda have a bad feeling