Status Updates From Behind Closed Doors (The Wo...

I need a palate cleanser or I’m not gonna make it through the dumb Sword Catcher book

The image of a dejected YeoWoo eating stale rice puffs while Athelas gets his preferred breakfast because she messed up and 'what if Camellia holds him in higher esteem now? She once again doesn't deserve good things' is seeeeending me.

I have feelz

I feel bad for Athelas on a few different levels.

He likes her? I did not see this coming and I think I'm pleased. So curious to see what happens with that.

“You might bring your teapot,” he said; and when she looked at him enquiringly, he added, “Should I need to be defended from behindkind in the streets.”

Do I ship them? Yes? Is that okay? Do they end up together?! I must know.

YeoWoo acting stuck up/arrogant is hilarious. XD

That guy!!

Why, why am I so excited about a tie pin?

The scent, the terror

“That,” said Camellia thoughtfully, “is a peculiarly unpleasant smile.”

“I beg your pardon,” said Athelas. “From time to time I am visited with the urge to play the hero. Never fear: the urge does not typically last a great deal of time. My expression will readjust itself accordingly.”

~ it returns, the unsettling feeling, like seeing a flamingo sleep with one leg raised midair, that I am alike to Athelas...

“After all,” Athelas pointed out gently, ignoring her, “the teapot was out of commission.”

“I still had the teacups,” Camellia said ~ and the saucers too, said Brittany in her head, as if she were this cool.

The use of the phrase "pushing up daisies" to describe the state of one whose footsteps grew flowers is such poetic justice and delicious irony.

Also, the PARALLELS. The way Athelas, however much he resists, is being neatly and tidily and inexorably pulled into exorcising and redeeming his own past... I have kicked my feet over this so many times already and I have never been so invested in a redemption arc??

“Sunlight lit the side of his face furthest from Athelas, limning his profile with liquid light and casting shadow on the side closest.”

mmm yes, visual theming

Well, that's a wee bit obvious. The moral choice you made badly screwed you in your selfishness.

I'm so confused.