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“Adventures, I told him. Meals. Late nights. Rainy walks.”

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helene’s chap name being helene again 😭🥹😭🥹

laia being a kehanni when that’s what she wanted to be as a child 🥹🥹🥹

HE’S FINALLY FREE 🥹🥹

the chapter name switching back to elias 😭😭

elias greeting avitas & darin at the waiting place ohmygosh 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

“We need an Imperator Invictus. We need an empress.”

“At that moment, the sun, drifting in and out of the clouds all morning, breaks through, washing the training ground and the river beyond in pale light.

“Witness!” Quin isn’t one to waste a moment of drama. “Witness how the skies crown her!” The sun hits my braid and the crowd titters in awe.

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all she has is her nephew 😭😭 i’ll sob

she had ONE happy chapter & it was with avitas 😭😭😭😭😭

“But when I look down at the still form of Avitas Harper, duty does not hold me up. It offers me no comfort. There is no mistaking that he is dead. Even with a cloak pulled over the vicious gash delivered him by Keris, he is blood-spattered, cut and bruised in a dozen places.”

OH MY GOD 😭😭😭😭

darin genuinely didn’t need to die 😭😭😭😭😭

“Didn’t bother checking my body,” Mirra of Serra says. “And I touched the Star, remember? We’re tough to kill.”

AWWWW

“Just a few feet away, Avitas Harper lies dead too. Now I understand the Blood Shrike’s devastation. We had one meaningful conversation, Avitas and I. It was not enough.”

is someone gonna jump out with revival powers 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

WHAT THE FUCK 😭😭😭 DARIN 😭😭😭

“Her voice fades, for all I can hear is that hellish crack. As I look down at Darin’s broken body, I see my mother and my father. I see my sister, Nan, Pop, Izzi. I see the endless Scholar dead, all of us brutalized children of war who have had everything torn from us. Homes. Names. Families. Freedom. Power. Pride. Hope.”

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surely darin didn’t die after everything in the first 2 books…… pls tell me she’s hallucinating

shhh avitas has “died” so many times, there’s genuinely no way he’s dead

“From the Shrike or Elias, these words would be encouraging. From my big brother, they are life-giving. Something about him, of all people, believing in me makes me grip my scim and set my jaw and stand taller. I will win today.”

AWWW

I love you. Such simple words. But they are not enough. They don’t convey what I mean.

“Emifal Firdaant,” I say to him.

“You’ve said that before.” He runs his fingers through my hair. “What does it mean?”

I cannot quite look at him when I say it. “May death claim me first.”

“Ah, no, my love. You cannot go first. I could not make sense of the world if you did.”

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“I want a life with you. Adventures. Meals. Late nights in front of fires. A thousand rainy walks. You talking me out of my clothing in inappropriate places. I want ch—” She stops, sadness in her eyes, though she hides it quickly. But I know what she was going to say. Because I want children too, perhaps not now, but one day.

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“I said: You are my temple. You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release.”

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“Avitas’s words fill a part of me I didn’t know was empty. For years, I did not care to reflect upon my father. Quite suddenly, I want to know everything.”

aw do they get a brotherly bonding moment 🥹🥹🥹

AHHH elias is finally back 😭🥹😭🥹

WHAT THE FUCK 😭😭😭😭 LIVIA 😭😭😭😭

“In his hands, I am beautiful, sacred, beloved. Beneath his lips, I am undone.”

“Until I am the Blood Shrike no longer, but simply Helene. His Helene.”

😭🥹😭🥹 FINALLY AHH

“My armor creaks as I shift from foot to foot, still staring, which is when I realize that I have not thought this through at all. Because no one in her right mind would wear armor to seduce the person she’s been pining after for months.”

pls tell me it’s happening 😭🥹

“Darin laughs. “She will indeed.” I wish suddenly that we had met when we were younger. That he could have been a brother to me too. He is, I think, a good brother.”

AWWW

“It was a river,” she says. “So unless you strangle a force of nature, you cannot do much.”

“The river that did this to you,” I say. “I don’t like it.”

“Are you going to find the bad river, Elias? Make it pay?”

“It’s Soul Catcher. And yes.” My thoughts toward this river turn baleful. “Maybe I can divert it down a canyon, or—”

i miss them 😭😭 i miss elias 😭😭

“And I know now that it belongs entirely to Avitas Harper. No matter how I wish to deny it, my reaction when I thought him dead tells me I am fully, foolishly in love with him. He is the weak spot in my armor, the flaw in my defense. Damn my traitorous heart to the hells.”

AHHH

“My mind snags on one word: Fearless. For I am not fearless. To be fearless means to have a heart of steel. But my heart betrayed itself. It is soft and hopeful.”

😭🥹😭🥹 sweet girl i love her so much