Status Updates From Wild Magic (Fool's Gold, #2)

Ending on a shameless quadruple cliffhanger. 🫢 I don’t love cliffhangers, but still…you gotta respect that Fisher has the nerve to go that route after 1000 pages.

‘Hesta had boasted to all who would listen that she would outlive them all, that she intended to survive Sur himself. But now she was stone dead w/ her feet set neatly together on the floor & her hands clasped around the carved dragonhead armrests. Her limbs were burned so the bones gleamed white ivory amongst all the char, but even as death had eaten at her, she had flinched from her seat not at all.’

—“I am told that albino babies are considered unlucky.” Virelai stood up, dusting off his gray robes & gazing disconsolately around. “Certainly, I don’t feel I carry much luck with me.”
—“Do you believe in luck?”
—“The Master always said a man’s luck was what he made it; & if that is so, I have surely been a poor craftsman.”

‘There was something in his expression Katla could not place. Not for the first time, it occurred to her that her twin—who had for most of her life seemed an extension of herself, as she was of him—had lately become a separate being entirely, as alien & unknowable as the strangest stranger.’

‘He smiled, & she remembered suddenly one bright morning when they had lain together as the sun slipped through the wagon’s shutters & turned those pale eyes a blazing gold & she had felt her belly flicker w/ desire & something akin to awe. A terrible sadness swept through her for what might have been, & she turned away, unable to bear the sight of him w/ all that brightness back in his face.’

‘It was not a union of equals, in any sense at all, for as cats & dogs, rats & whales could not interbreed, neither could any man get a child upon a creature so rare, exotic, & remote as the Rosa Eldi. Festrin wondered when the Rosa Eldi would recover her true self, regain her memories, bitter though they must surely be, & come back fully into the world. And shivered to think what would happen when she did.’