Status Updates From Sterrenlicht

BRIMSTONE IS NOT BACK BUT ISSA IS

Still stuck on chapter 23. I just realized this is 84 chapters long. Holy shit. It's taking me forever to get back into the story's flow. Maybe I need to re-read book one and continue to two and three without a break.

“Akiva had brought her the thurible. Thiago—her ally—lied to keep her isolated and alone. Akiva—her enemy—brought her the thurible that might… that might… that might contain… Brimstone.
Did it?
A twist of the wrist and Karou opened the vessel. Half a second. The soul skimmed against her senses.
And she knew.”

SHAYAYYEGEGEBSHSHDBEBHDJDS
BSHSHSJSJSHSHSHSJSJSHSJSJSJJSJSJSJSJSJSHSHSHSHSHSJSJJS

“I lost our dream. Vengeance eclipsed everything. I barely remember the weeks and months after…” After I watched you die, and part of me died, too. “I can’t account for what I’ve done, let alone atone for it. I would bring them all back if I could. I would die a death for every single chimaera. I would do anything. I will do anything, and everything, and I know… I know it will never be enough—”
💔

“I thought you were dead.” Akiva’s voice was choked. “And… I wanted… to die, too.”
“Why didn’t you?” Karou’s face was hot and wet and she was ashamed of her tears and ashamed that she still hadn’t been able to kill him.

😭😭

“When the magic of the marks hit him, he lowered his head and endured it.
Magic poured off Karou, and Akiva shook under the onslaught but didn’t move—not away, not toward—and Karou knew that she could kill him.”

he would let her kill him

“Ziri had begun to hate someone on that day, and it wasn’t Akiva.
“I don’t know why, Karou,” he said. “But I think the angel saved my life.”

OFCOURSE HE DID
(i have a feeling if i start a thiago hate club ziri would join without a doubt)

jael shoved ziri’s comrades ashes down his throat…
this bitch needs therapy

side note: THIAGO U FKN BITCH
HE LIED TO EVERYONE THAT SHE SOLD THEIR SECRET WHEN HE WAS THE ONE WHO TOLD AKIVA ALL SMUG AND EVERYTHINF

“I believe you,” Ziri said.”

YALL
PLS
N OT
GONNA
CRY

“No, not…” He broke off, flushed, sat up and back, putting space between them on the bed. His blush made him look very young. He added with haste, “I mean, because I have to tell you what happened. Before he comes back.”

AKIVA SAVED HIM RIGHT??!!
(also hess adorable i want him so bad)

“If he had any decency in him he would wish her happiness with one of her own kind, because whatever else was uncertain in these terrible days, one thing was sure: There was no hope that she could still love him.”

ouch ouch ouch (sparrow. im actually really sad and ill cry if i dont use my deadaass humour)

never forgiving them for torturing ziri like that
im genuinely sobbing