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‘He starts to shake his head, winces as this causes him pain somewhere, sighs instead. “They called it magic.”’

Bitch I said it first

“There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both—taken and taken and taken, until there’s nothing left but hope, and you’ve given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.”

Damn that's deep

“...Between the gelidity, moving, too, but in a slower and less organic way, you suddenly sess the same thing you found in the stone of him. Something else, neither flesh nor stone. Something immaterial, and yet it is there for you to perceive. It glimmers in threads strung between the bits of him, crossing itself in lattices, shifting constantly. A… tension? An energy, shiny and streaming.”

Oooh magic

‘“Anyway, I told you how the obelisks followed you to Tirimo. Where you go, they go. That makes them satellites to your primary.”

You shudder, not liking the thought that comes into your head—of thin, invisible tethers anchoring you to the amethyst, the nearer topaz, and now the distant onyx whose dark presence is growing in your mind....’

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Every time they say torus I get flashbacks to calculus 😐

“Nassun flops to a stop, dazed and breathless. Nothing really hurts yet. By the time the world settles and she begins to understand what’s happened—Daddy hit me, knocked me off the wagon—Daddy has scrambled down the slope and is crying her name as he crouches beside her and helps her to sit up. Really crying....”

God DAMN

Sure he's being eaten alive and all that, but the fact that Alabaster is still so powerful is turning me on rn

“Schaffa has left Eitz’s siblings and cousins alive, however, because he is not a complete monster.”

Okay then

“Schaffa presses, very gently, and draws the first measure of—something—from the boy. What? He cannot remember what it is called. Perhaps it has no name. All that matters is that it exists, and he needs it. ... So he takes, and the first draught of it is like a sudden, sweet wash of fresh water amid gallons of burning salt. He yearns to drink it all...”

Okay Jeffrey Epstein

I'm picturing the Pokemon Onix coming at the FMC 🪨🪨🪨