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I . . . don't want this to end so if I stop reading it that means it will never end!! yeah, good plan *nods*

“I grew up thinking monsters could be slain.”
“Ah,” he said. “And I grew up thinking people were the monsters.”

“Pain doesn’t make a person weak or strong,” she said. “Pain just—is. It’s not a purifier, it’s part of living.”

“Her mother,” said Ryn. “Likely a frail old woman.”
“Clearly,” said Ellis, “you have not spent time near older women. I’ve met ones who could bring down a dragon with a glare and a sharp word.”

Ellis knows what's up

'To most people, death was the worst thing.
After years of digging graves, Ryn had little fear of death. Death was quiet and stillness. It was fresh earth and wildflowers. It was coin in her purse and a hole in the ground.
No, the worst thing was uncertainty. When her father had vanished, it would have been a relief to have had a body, rather than just questions.'

'There was something about siblings—a language that was half memory and half glance. Jests and jibes. They were a tangle of love and resentment, and despite their differences, Ryn knew he would defend her to the death.'

sibling relationships written proper is a rare thing in books tbh

'She held up the chicken—she had it upside down by the legs, and the bird had its wings extended, but it did not flap nor try to escape; rather, it looked as resigned as a bird could. “You forgot one.”

chickens do be like that

'No warrior could stop the dead.
But perhaps a gravedigger could.'

the chicken KNEW