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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..

"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..