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not tolkien and a a milne in the trenches 😭

lol tolkien king of payoff, we were promised a song and a song we get

Aragorn 🥰

unfortunately it would appear I don’t like tom and these three chapters could’ve been condensed a bit

so nostalgic

should’ve told auntie earlier 😭

I knew this would happen after that phone call, but still, poor guy😔

she just said she’s his wife😭

”A name. Like all of them, the more it was said, the less meaning it had.”

”And then I saw them, at the bottom, waiting for me. A myriad of perfect blue eyes, fixedly, elliptically watching me from under the water. And then I turned back, back.
I turned back.”

’She brought her anise-scented lips close to my face and said, “I know you are a woman.” She smiled and, with nothing more, returned to her position in front of the fireplace.’

“I am sure that the man who commanded them,” she continued with the glass again at her lips, “came to die in your hospital.“

”Disappearance is contagious. Everyone knows this. In the past it was believed to be caused by something external, something that a much more powerful agent imposed on an innocent victim, often brutally. But with scientific and technological advances, we now know that to become a disappeared person, previous contact with another such person is necessary.”

“Thanks to my work in the municipal hospital, I spent little time with her. I say thanks now, which would seem to indicate that I liked my work. The reality is quite the contrary. For years I had intensely despised the tall walls of that fortification, which some bureaucrat with a malevolent imagination had decided to place right on the edge of the sea, on one of the most beautiful points of the coast”

”Another Father Thomas is standing in the opposite doorway, a mirror image of the one she’s walking toward.”
oop

”In a strange way, Cora feels bad for Harvey. Most people don’t know how easy it is to end a life. In video games, you can swallow rounds of bullets before going down. But in real life, bodies are delicate. Skulls pop open like biscuits, bones shatter beyond repair, torrents of blood rush from a small wound.”

“Ghost chair,” Auntie Zeng says. “For your uncle.”
“You hated my uncle,” Cora says, but she switches seats all the same.
“That’s why I feed his ghost,” Auntie Zeng says. “I had enough of him in one life. I don’t need him haunting me in the afterlife.”

“And Cora won’t have answers because Cora isn’t a person, not really. She’s been thinking a lot about obituaries lately, how her own would be short and impersonal.”
[…]
“But everything sloughs off Cora like dead skin because she is not the kind of person who creates things, who makes a mark on the world. She is an echo, quieter and quieter until she’s nothing at all.”

”Now the money is gone and there are no careers to show for it and the worst part is that they had a chance, they had a Nai Nai who paid for half their tuition because she thought America was for dreams. They didn’t have to wait tables or strip or sell Adderall to pay for college but they somehow messed it up anyway, and Cora thinks that’s worse than having no chance at all.”

“I know you from when you were a tree,” she said. “From those times.”

“Until I bring in his head.”
oooo the double meaning (ofc it’s explained right after, but ok)

ofc they’re light and dark fae

yeah I feel like something in this plan is gonna go wrong now that they have to rush

she might be a bit op, but she’s an interesting complex mc