Status Updates From The Two Lies of Faven Sythe

I love that, I’m a dramatic scene with space pirates being pursued by killer robots, Megan O’Keefe gives the fleeing heroine this gem of interior monolgue:

“Maybe it was grief making her reckless or perhaps it was loneliness, which was just a different kind of grief”

"She coveted the name...Hardened the name into a seed and it didn't matter if it was ever Amandine's name or not - a seed is concentrated potential...Not in the way of plants, sprouting deep roots and growing ever skyward, but a seed crystal...A sliver of someone who had been so bursting with the potential for change that they'd earned a new name altogether, and embodied it fully...She would need that change"

“The Marquette listened. Impossible, she knew. Ships were not beings…But as she summoned up the inner world that only navigators could access, she felt eyes on her for the first time in hours.”

“‘I said I was going to talk to her, not that I was going to eat up everything she has to say like it’s sugar and starshine. Give me a little credit.’ Tully threw their hands in the air and laughed. ‘Had to put it out there. Make sure you’re not getting us in hot water over a pretty lady AGAIN.’ Amandine scowled. ‘I didn’t know she was a damn bounty hunter’”😂

"'I told you the truth,' Faven said. 'Navigators are going to the Clutch, their true destinations hidden, and aren't heard from again.' 'Ghost stories,' Amandine insisted. 'Thirteen Blades don't mobilize for a ghost story,' Faven shot back."