Tina > Recent Status Updates

- [ ] “true love is a rapacious thing. The stronger it is, the further it crawls into your chest and infuses into your every breath. It pulses through your veins and embeds itself into your heart, your lungs, your liver, your organs. When it dies, whether by choice or by mortality, all it leaves behind is a mass of rotting, necrotic flesh. It is a beautiful, inoperable cancer. That is what I think.”

- [ ] A: zombie like creatures (remains of the fallen Fae) oh her gift is being able to steal the magical gifts of other by drinking their blood
-A: there’s an exiled Fae kingdom. Exiled because they intermingle and interbred with humans
-T: Sam magic’s a head to send to the Threllian lords to make them think it’s T
-T & Max reunited! Start to have sexy time. Calls her a good girl 🫠 they smush

- [ ] “If hopes were ropes we’d all hang.”
- [ ] Fitchner fights in front of Nero and gets hired on as a lancer
- [ ] CAVAX TELEMANUS! THE FOX!

- [ ] He’s afraid of intimacy so he has blood drawn from her to drink instead of the old fashioned way which would bond them
- [ ] They’re awkward AF
- [ ] Ghosts?
- [ ] He has an aviary of finches!
- [ ] “Sadness is like absinthe. It stings and burns and yet somehow brings comfort. Happiness is sweet, and anger has an exhilarating spice, but shame? It’s a useless emotion. It sullies every other.”

- [ ] “Act polite. Smile. But keep your daggers close.”

- [ ] Upset to see the Threllians she bargained and worked so hard for are living in slums
- [ ] She and Rishay fight in a battle brings down an avalanche on a mountain
- [ ] Why is Aoife considered tainted?
- [ ] A: the city of the house of Reeds is abandoned. A woman whose face is replaced with smoke attacks them

- [ ] “Songs last longer than those that sing them.”

- [ ] Beauty and the Beast vibes
- [ ] Her job would be to donate blood AND be his partner

Zareth pulled a coup

Fae?

-Naz
- [ ] Max: speaking to the recorder. Recounts the day her shadow disappeared. She saw it move on its own just before it disappeared!
- [ ] Random thought: the people Ory met were traveling to New Orleans. We learn that there had been a patient with amnesia from an accident in New Orleans that was brought to India to be studied alongside the first shadowless man. I wonder if these things are somehow related?

- He got second place in the competition. First ever American silver medalist
- Called it that the paperwork was in the original violin case! He’s was definitely the master’s bastard. Document proving master gave him his freedom AND the violin
- Great great grandfathers stories from his enslaved childhood. The cruelty he witnessed and experienced is unfathomable.
-NICOLE & HER REAL BF STOLE THE VIOLIN!

- [ ] Sons intercept Logos shuttle (governors mouthpiece) and kidnap him. Have to fight their way out.
- [ ] They lose 2 sons in the fight

- [ ] He gets through the first round of the competition. Then the second. THEN MAKES IT TO THE FINALS!
- [ ] Leaves the competition during practice days because his violin might be in Serbia. It’s a Strad, but not his.

- [ ] Cora is a research student who gets a job being a vampires feeder at a Sicialian abbey. Doing it so she can find records for her research on the vampire Medici family
- [ ] Was engaged to a girl named Emily who broke up with her
- [ ] Xeno & Cora meet

- [ ] Tchaikovsky competition time
- [ ] Possibility that his biggest competitor had his violin stolen!

- His own family tries to sue him for the violin!
- [ ] THE MARKS FAMILY IS NOW SUING HIM FOR THE INSURANCE MONEY! HOLY SHIT! I HATE THESE GUYS! PUT THEM BACK IN THEIR ANCESTRAL HOME AND BURN IT DOWN WITH THEM IN IT!
- [ ] No one in the family can find the paperwork belonging to grandpa Leon that might say something about the violin. $10 grandma Nora put it in the old case somewhere

- [ ] I love how he is specifically going by the name Ares as a fuck you. Gold society uses Roman mythology so he purposely uses Greek

- [ ] Xeno’s family had his pet birds killed. Beats his cousin for it outside a big party.

-“He was a musician and music had no color.”
- [ ] His mother got him a bouquet!
- [ ] Adult white professional musicians making racist comments pisses me off so much. YOU DON’T BECOME A CONCERT SOLOIST UNLESS YOU’VE EARNED IT WHICH HE HAS!

- [ ] Meets Janice after auditioning for a special high school orchestra
- [ ] He gets a full scholarship to the University Janice teaches at!
- [ ] Mom says he can’t go to college and has to stay home, get a job, & help her pay bills. They argue and she smacks him.
- [ ] Finds a luthier that actually can repair his great-great-grandfathers violin. While doing repairs the luthier thinks it could be a Stradivarius

- [ ] “But my power isn’t in my voice, it’s in my deeds.”
- [ ] Nero Augustus watched his family and home burn down at 6

- [ ] SEXY TIME ON AN ALTER! He keeps edging her with his tongue. They smush
- [ ] Atroxus knows what she did and is PISSED. Forces her to relive killing her sister!
-She makes a deal with Atroxus that she will complete this mission if he lets her sister pass and spares Asar
-Find out Alarus was supposed to kill Nyaxia but fell in love with her instead!
-Finally find the doorway to the underworld & pass through it!

- [ ] Grandmas gifts him her grandfathers violin for Xmas. His mom, aunts, & uncles are pissed

- [ ] His grandmother’s grandfather was a freed slave who played the violin and she still has it
- [ ] Even his orchestra teacher is an racist ass

- [ ] The scientists make a destruction machine and go after the witches!
- [ ] Patricia kills it
- [ ] “And if she ended his life might go on but his story would be over.”

- [ ] Sactum of secrets - they see different landscapes
- [ ] She’s never fed off live prey before, but she’s so badly injured from fighting their way out of psyche that she HAS to drink from him (his insistence) in order to heal
- [ ] Says “good girl” to her as she drinks 🫠
- [ ] She also had never let anyone drink from her. She makes him drink- very hot
- [ ] The relic is gone!

- [ ] Laurence is still a little bitch
- [ ] Reunite
- [ ] Earthquake

- Ray is a competitive professional violinist. Returns from a trip to find his violin case empty with a shoe in it with a ransom demand
- [ ] $10 million Stradivarius
- [ ] His mom is a twat
- [ ] First gig he got to play for a wedding they essentially don’t let him enter because he’s black and don’t believe him. His friends get him in, but the father of the bride kicks him out immediately after the ceremony.

Ory & Max
The Forgetting. When your shadow disappears you start to forget things - basic & complex. Changes the world around them
- [ ] They’re out of food so he has to travel to town to try to find some
- [ ] Something metal hits him in the back of the head on the way home & knocks him out. Steals his pack.
- [ ] Finally makes it home and Max is gone!