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😭😭😭 This goodbye hug, initiated by her, is better than a goodbye kiss, especially since Sylvia usually hates body contact

not Arin telling her to run away - his ice heart has thoroughly melted :o

'Arin looked at me until it started to hurt. A covered thumb slid across my cheekbone. "What appeal can reason have in the face of your tears?"

"You are not the first to use me for your own ends. I have a legacy of disappointing people, you see."
[...]
"I am still waiting," Arin said.
"Waiting?"
[...]
"To be disappointed."

as much as I enjoyed the potential enemies-to-lovers here, the political intrigue also has my attention. Jasad is murky and in the gray, the war on Jasadis isn't right, but there are rumours of a history of wrongdoing that Syvlia isn't privy to or her mind has blocked.

"No wonder my magic never helped me. It hated me as much as I hated myself."

"Power is a choice, Sylvia. When you choose who you are willing to fight for, you choose who you are."

"Arin gifted me with one of his rare smiles [...] He should know better than to share his smiles with me. I should know better than to crave them."

i feel like Arin's Jasadi in some way, either a throwback gene or like a quarter or something

I knew it

2nd Arin pov chapter

I have never wished for more chapters from another character before - author dangles this like precious stones

[‘Are my attempts at humor improving?”

He smoothed his features almost instantly, but it was too late. He had revealed something entirely unintended, something I could not reconcile with my own understanding of him. Arin of Nizahl was a 26yo man, filled with the ennui of one who thought most everyone in the room beneath him, struggling not to exchange a laugh with the girl on his arm.]

I eat these “his jaw drops when he sees her” moments up every single time

"Men don't see women, dear Daleel. They see power. Which one of us has more of it, and how easily they can drain it out of her.'

Apparently, this wasn't a trait reserved for men, because a dark thrill raced through me at the thought of conquering the Nizahl Heir. Stealing a piece of Arin's power in the surrender."

"Arin of Nizahl was maddeningly elegant. I wanted to cut him open and compare our bones to understand why his gave him grace and mine gave me back pain."

ooh, this lady is such a mess lol. vaida , find your entertainment elsewhere

girl, he's not staring because of that

"That isn't me. It is not in my nature---"

"Of course it isn't. Altruism is no one's nature. It wouldn't be half as remarkable otherwise."

Oh, this is delicious! He’s losing his cool; gaining fondness for her
The way they keep pulling daggers on each other it might as well be foreplay

this is good!

Marek is such a fool! lol

whoo, feels like an intense game of cat and mouse

"Your kindness would be better spent on someone else."
"Impossible," Marek said. "I've never met someone who needs it more."

This was far worse than I could have imagined. I had not earned this. Loyalty could be broken. These destructive fools loved me.

I just want to see her best him just once - see him lose his cool.

Oh snap! We got a 2nd pov

"If you are not their ally, you are their foe. You do not get the luxury of indifference in war."

Sigh. And so it begins …

“Be wary of evil men’s kindness, Essiya. They always grow from poisonous roots.”

"You think you are the most frightening creature in these woods, but you're not," I said to the raven. "I am."

Oof, don't ever be no placeholder girl