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“I know you, and after what happened you're gon' try to push me away as hard as you can. And with dat super-strength of yours, it'll be real hard. And I’m telling ya right now, I’m not having it. (...) You promised you’d always find your way back to me. An’ I’m holding you to that, Rogue. Right now.”

they mean everything to me 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

they're perfect 🥹

“Vis.” Aequa is in a sleek blue stola that emphasises her form. Her raven hair is meticulously arranged, curled artfully at the front and plaited into an elaborate bun at the back.
I take a moment to say anything. I don’t think I’ve seen her dressed up since we travelled to the naumachia together. “Hail. You look nice.”

aaaahhhhh 😭😭😭😭😭

Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. (...) She explained through choking sobs that without grief, love would be meaningless. Because it is impossible to truly love something that cannot be lost.

i’m gonna bawl vis lost so much 💔

Aequa is kneeling over me. My head cupped in her hands. Wide-eyed.
As I fade to unconsciousness, I can’t help but feel vaguely annoyed that she didn’t run like I told her to.

aevis my most beloved

Livia was Tertius Ericius’s stipulation. Aequa was mine.

i love how vis and aequas rs directly contrasts vis and emissas 😭😭 where vis doesn’t feel like he can trust emissa at all, he trusts aequa like it’s breathing ☹️

twotm spoilers

Is the version of me in Res relaxing somewhere with Emissa, right now? Laughing with Callidus and Eidhin? Or did he somehow manage to win the Iudicium and find a peaceful escape to the embassy in Jatiere?

oh.... oh

“And she is an excellent choice.” (...) “I can think of no one more deserving.”

he is so in love with her i’m sick. he knows her so well, is so in awe of her and her achievements and it's truly dawning on him now how much she truly means to him 😭❤️‍🩹

Before I can start after Aequa, her father claps me on the shoulder. Leans in, voice high even as it’s soft. “Keep her safe, dear boy. Keep her safe, and win.” He waddles off.
I jog to join Aequa, catching her as we reach the sand. “I think your father likes me more than he used to.”
“You kept me alive, and then you embarrassed your father by defecting. He’d adopt you if he could.”


ADVENIUS KNOWS WHATS UPPP

No.” I don’t even have to think about it. I say it to him, make eye contact. Ensure he understands that it’s not because he’s in Religion but because I’m refusing him, personally, no matter how good he is at racing chariots. Then I turn back to Iro’s father. “I’ll take Aequa.”

going from their fathers’ pawns to trauma bonded acquaintances to enemies to friends to i’ll pick her everytime... oh the yearning

Ahmose is looking at me as if I am a monster. Or perhaps a god. Reverence and fear in every line.

my son is saur cool 💖

yes i’m reading this again no i’m not sorry 😭😭😭 i miss zenyuki they are dearest to me...

i am finally back to read this beast of a book and i cannot believe this many vis x aequa moments were just out of reach 😭🙏
I sling my good arm forcefully around her shoulders, squeezing her close against my drenched tunic. She laughs as she feigns struggling before embracing me back. “Disgusting.”
MY ENDGAME 🥹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

“Don’t let me stop you from getting a canoe,” I say, dead serious. “Nicholas, I’m here to support all your dreams. Please, go get a canoe. I’d love nothing more than to watch you paddle out into the middle of a lake.”
“I need to feel alive!”
“I think what you need is a granola bar and maybe a trial run with the Eagle Scouts.”

i want to be naomi westfield when i grow up 🥹

book after my own heart ❤️‍🩹 i already know this will be one of my all-time favs

Being in love is so embarrassing cause why am i reading romance all of a sudden 😭🙏

I laugh softly. Shake my head. “I don’t deserve a friend like you.”
“Truth.” Eidhin’s chair creaks as he leans back. “Now. Tell me what has to be done.

EIDHIN MY FUCKING GOATTTTTTT ISTG JAMES TAKE ANYTHING BUT NOT MY EVERYTHING

WHAT IS HAPPENING

im going to kms ❤️

ikheb beef met james

I want to tell him. I don’t think he would turn me in. I think Callidus would take my secret to his grave.

they're so in love it pains me

why did this turn into kakegurui LMAO

i am literally crying my eyes out please stop

i feel sick to my stomach my poor vis 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 FUCK THE HIERARCHY

“The decision may have been made by the few, Diago, but it’s the Will of the many that killed your family.”
TITLE DROP!!!!!

I want to attack him. To call him out. To denounce him a cheat, a liar, and the small, bitter man that he is. My blood is pumping so hard that I almost do all of it at once.
Then beyond, I see Callidus. Everyone else is watching in stunned horror. He’s just beaming, a fist raised high in silent, jubilant victory. Celebrating for me. Celebrating with me.

dude that's literally the love of your life

I LOVE EIDHIN SO MUCH DUDEEE HES SO FUNNY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 MY SHAYLAAAAAAAAA

I can’t trust Callidus simply because he sees the rot beneath the Hierarchy’s veneer—if he found out who I was, I doubt it would matter—but I still feel an affinity with the other boy. Genuine affection, even if it can’t be accompanied by honesty.

oh he's SMITTEN 😭😭 do they know it's legal now

and they were roommates (vis and callidus 💔)

CRAZY THINGS ARE HAPPENING im soooooo hypedddd