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gonna murder laura dean

“my malini.

i’ll come back to you. i promise.”

. this can’t be happening. no. this has to take another way. another way. come on. please.

RAO. YOU CANT GO NOW PLEASE. FUCK EVERYTHING JS FALLING APART. NO.

“she felt oddly calm. it was one thing to be dragged to a pyre. to be afraid, and used. but it was different to kneel on burnt soil with your love dying in your arms, pondering a choice.”

…..no. wait. NO. THAT POSSIBILITY CANT COME TRUE. PLEASE. NO. MALINI YOUVE COME SO FAR, PLEASE.

“‘i considered suffocating you in the ground,’ malini said, with utter calm. ‘but this is slower, better. you may burn as you wished to.’”

THANK FUCK. YES GOD. YES GOOOD.

“instead, she could only watch as sanvi lowered her bow and met her eyes.”

YOU BITCH. IVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU.

“heart’s shell. but i thought it only had use against the tasks and their power.”

“MAGIC GREEN OR MAGIC FLAME, IT WAS ALL THE SAME”

“‘…the fire never wanted you,’ she managed to say. and then her vision wavered and went, in one breath, dark.”

hey. so. this is stressful. please don’t do this.

“a few blossoms came away easily. they unspooled, growing tendrils in her hands. she lowered her hands, placing her own wrists together. those tendrils curled in a tangle around her wrists, binding them together.

‘this is my vow to you,’ priya whispered. ‘garland-strung. you can hold me here. i want you to.’”

🎶IM FEELING FANTASTIC. FUCKING FANTASTIC—🎶

“of course. every part of mani ara had to be destroyed.

even the parts that were priya.”

….oh. oh……*no*……. wait. no. NO—

“‘i know you don’t need your gifts to fight,’ malini whispered. ‘move, and i cut. so, my love. will you come with me?

the only answer was yes.”

I AM BITING MY FIST AT 1:40 AM. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK OH MY GOD

“malini leapt forward and looped the necklace of gold that had been around her own throat over priya’s neck with all the reverence of a wedding garland.”

FUCK I WAS RIGHT. SHIT.

“the gold at her throat and wrists shone.”

WE KNOW WHAT THAT IS NOW. MALINI ARE YOU GOING TO FORCE PRIYA TO WEAR THE MOST DANGEROUS JEWELRY SHE WILL EVER KNOW?????????????????? FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“but why’ she thought, ‘should i hand power to the priesthood? to another man in power?’”

following this with “when the empress was gone, she would be her son’s regent. she would keep him safe.” brings upon a sense of extreme caution. your mind is growing stronger, varsha, you’re learning what you can do. but i beg you to be careful.

this is so “i prefer sleep because it is where i might find you”

“like the nameless wrote loving you into his fate”

this isn’t even about their relationship but the mentions of how characters in love look at their beloved make my heart cry

okay. hemanth, i always knew your crusty ass was planning something. i just knew you were jumping with joy as soon as it was announced that varsha’s baby was a boy. i need your ass to burn instead. i need you to die.

varsha, i hope you know what you’re doing and i hope you’ll choose the right path. please.

“he strode forward and gently clasped that face, that cold carved face fixed into a smile, and thought, ‘i should have done this while you lived’.

he did not think. the drink had him, and the pipe, and the grief. it was simple enough to press his own mouth to that carved face. that ever-smiling mouth.

it was cold beneath his lips. it did not warm. it never could.”

FUCK. OH GOD. NO.

“i promised long ago that i would carry your grief for you. so lay it in my hands.”

oh BROTHER

“tell me why i matter to you.”

this might be one of the best amnesia arcs i know. he’s still with her after she hollowed herself out entirely, sacrificing her own memories, for the sake of the knowledge for greater good? he’s with her despite everything? they’re in love.

“one of the guards—a new parijati addition named sanvi—announced that malini’s advisors were all arrayed in the council tent waiting to receive here”

i’ve been waiting for you. what are you going to do?

“what is a star?

aditya, fire climbing over his skin. aditya, in rao’s hands and then not.

distant fire—“

1: this is cruel, calling back the final lines of the previous book. in the same context, yes, but this is somehow worse.
2: rao. do you believe you told him that you loved him enough? does your soul reach out to his now in the same way that a star does?

two pages in and my review of oleander sword is already half disproven thank you tasha suri for telling me im thinking too much.

also i didn’t realize the lineage was That close?? forgive me, divyanshi wasn’t hundreds of years ago, divyanshi is malini’s literal grandmother

“‘what is a star’ he thought, in aditya’s slurred, smiling voice, ‘but distant fire, reaching for you across worlds?’”

WHAT DO YOU MEAN

…oh. oh rao. oh aditya.

…oh.

“‘beg me,’ she whispered in return. ‘grovel with your face to the floor. cry. maybe if you’re pitiful enough, i’ll consider rising to the pyre.’ she cocked her head to the side in his grip. ‘go on,’ she urged.”

yea that’s hot.

“i’ve dreamt of naming you my own. my heart. my wife.”

“that is a cruel thing to let yourself dream of, isn’t it?”

this book hasn’t even finished but the next one is going to hurt like a bitch isn’t it?

“priya. sweetheart. show me.”

FUCK. THEYRE FUCKING.

“he walked over to her. he grasped one of the chains. held the hook delicately between his slender fingers and raised it to her hair. she felt him touch one of her braids, a light pressure that shimmered through her.

she saw his reflection in the mirror behind hers. their eyes met.”

…they’re totally getting together. soon.