Status Updates From The Spear Cuts Through Water

Uhhhhhhh… and i thought the first terror was insane…

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK

”I swear to watch over you, Jun of No Tribe, for the next few hours while you sleep. I swear to protect you from any spirit or animal or living or dead thing that may mean you harm or mischief. I swear you will wake up again, and I swear that you will be rested."
”Fine. At least I know that if you fuck this up you have to disembowel yourself."
"I hope that brings you much comfort as you sleep."
"Oh. It does."

”Neither spoke; Jun far away and Keema wondering where he was but not knowing how to ask, for there had been so few opportunities in his life to practice such kindness.”

“If you know what's coming, then what's the value in being miserable about it?”

“It was said that a fisherman was never lost, for he had two homes-his village, and his Gatheringand he was never far from either.
No matter how far he rowed, you said, he was never lost.”

"But you have more than earned my trust by now, Keema of the Daware Tribe. If you truly believe that going right would be best, I will listen.”

STOP

“Nature would see me drawn and quartered.
"Nature would have me gutted. Nothing in this world will ever meet me and not want to slit my throat, because I wear the mark of death on my face. Because I had served death proudly. I envy anyone who can still trust nature. But I am beyond nature's grace. That bird knows what I am. It can no doubt smell the blood that stains my body.”

Ok I’m easing into it a bit better. It does help to imagine this as an actual stage play with stage directions and character asides

“But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed.”