Isabella

“Child, that bee smashed you.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

“When she was 90 percent asleep, she heard the door very quietly unlatch and close. Then she counted, and at the end of five counts there was Pyrrha at the door saying, “Ah, my darling hearts, my sleeping babes, Daddy’s own treasures,” and Camilla saying without opening her eyes, “Go to bed. I just got her to sleep.” Nona fell asleep and was happy.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Then he said– “Do you remember what you said to me once I had done it? When we stood there together?”

She looked at him and she said, “Yes.”

He said– “You said, ‘I picked you to change, and this is how you repay me?”

She said– “What else did I say?”

He said, “Where did you put the people? Where did they go?”

She said, “I still love you.”

He said, “You said that too.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“Ask me no questions and I shall tell you no lies,”
― Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth