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“Thank you. For saving me from falling off.”
It’s obvious she barely remembers. Like it was a reflex to help me instead of a decision. Seyoon flexes her hand, grimacing. “Well,” she spits. “That’s the kind of player I am.”

GURL the only reason he almost fell was because YOUUUU jumped on top of him when he was already going on that damn zipline 😭💀

“I’m starting to consider believing in God just so I have someone to blame for my misery”

lol

“I had come up with an elaborate excuse on the drive over, but with everyone’s attention on me, my brain short-circuits.
So what I get out is “It’s Mom. She’s . . . dead.”

bro no way 😭💀

“HOW MY COMPLETE LACK OF A BACKBONE LANDED ME ON NATIONAL TV: A TRAGEDY IN TWO PARTS”

fun chapter titles oh we are so back!!!

“Brawny wasn’t his real name. We only called him that because, you know. All brawn, no brain.”
Lament blinks. And then he laughs. An honest to stars, full-throated laugh that makes me flush with unexpected pleasure.”

it wasn’t even funny 😭

“Lament has arrived unexpectedly in the middle of the night looking like some kind of businessman demigod and saying the word naked, which has my mind running down all kinds of paths. Also, he smells … really good.”

wtf are we doing here…? 😑

“Vera: I SWEAR ON MY MOTHER’S GRAIN YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS
Jester: You mean grave, Vera.”

not funny

“rereading the exchange over and over until I practically have it memorized.”

it’s too soon to care that much + the convo wasn’t even that riveting

“Or maybe he prewrote the text and is pasting it from his Note app. That seems like the kind of thing Lament would do.”

#me fr

“Lament shakes his head and gently touches my lower back, urging me through the common room. (…) my legs turn to jelly, a little shiver whooshing the length of my spine. I wonder if Lament can sense this, because he abruptly drops the hand and speeds forward, leaving me feeling somewhat bereft.”

it’s been like 24h…

going inside a cave during an earthquake is questionable, but given that your spaceship just got swallowed by the earth, I’ll forgive you.

“if you give your lifestone to someone you love, it’s like giving them a part of your soul, and it can save them in times of peril.”

this will come back #trust

Lament is fucking ridiculous bro what do you mean you want to force your partner to ride in a tight trunk instead of… you know… their SEAT 🤡

“I’m attracted to him.”

it’s been a couple of hours…… I’m too ace for this

“I shouldn’t find Lament’s blush thrilling.”

it’s too soon for this

« “The plot thickens.”
“There is no plot.”
“Unhand me!”
“I can’t—what?”
“It’s … what they say in murder mysteries?”
He huffs a sound of disbelief. “You’re unhinged.” »

oh this failed attempt at humour 🕊️

“Battling monsters?” — What even is considered a monster when chilling and working with aliens is normal for you all?

“I want to be part of that. Sometimes, I want it so badly I can hardly breathe.”

he longs for a found family oww

“a future shouldn’t even exist for someone like me”

I wonder what this is about 👀

spoiler // “I stabbed him in the heart.”

divaaaa

spoiler // “When it rose again, both the first prince and a chunk of the arena were gone.”

damn

spoiler // “Maro’s staff and spanning all the way to the edge of the arena.
Terren didn’t even have time to react. His eyes widened a sliver right as the ground beneath his feet fell away, and the next moment, the chasm had swallowed him whole.”

bruh

why am i getting chills at Wei writing Terren’s love poem?

“I had thought about it the night before, and had made my decision. The decision to let him live.”

gurl…..

“Once or twice, I would wake to find a pot of ginger tea at my bedside table, with a candle under it to keep it boiling hot.”

was that Terren?? 🧐

Lady Autumn forced Prince Terren to be raped as a kid in hopes he’d have babies okayyyyy eww

she’s really enjoying having power 🤔

Terren is an actual psychopath

“At once, he cut up the birds, smashed up their skulls, and smeared their brains all over the ground, as if to show me.”

how is his cruelty even gonna be explained? he’s INSANE

a Maro poem collected posthumously? hmm 🧐