imtheproblemitsjen’s Reviews > The Endless War > Status Update

Eh don’t fight it.

Whoopsies Lara

You"-he laughed—"were not even a factor, because my mother never once considered that you'd come for Zarrah."
Keris went still, Bermin's words twisting in his mind. It didn't make sense. Serin's revelation of his relationship with Zarrah was what had caused Petra to incarcerate her niece here, so why wouldn't she have thought he would come?

Yup. Bait.

Where did they get a shit ton of salt?

"Killing should be hard." He stared at the ocean before them, the water only a few hues darker than the sky. "But it gets easier, doesn't it? Each life you take counting less and less until one day you find that they don't count for anything at all. At which point you realize that it wasn't just you doing the taking. That each death has stolen a piece of your humanity, and what remains is barely human at all."

Keris 🥺

A vicious circle of behavior where the ends always justified the means, yet he couldn't step clear of it. Couldn't accept the consequences that would come with being anything other than a villain.

God help him, but he'd hated Coralyn in that moment. Hated how she'd justified her villainy with her desire to protect him. To protect their family. The hypocrisy of his fury was not lost on Keris now, for he'd done the same to protect Zarrah, only to earn her hatred.

Keris pulled off his coat, then tugged his shirt over his head, tossing both on a chair.
"Not quite as sedentary as the spies claim," the old woman said, looking him up and down in a way that made his cheeks warm.
"You seem quite fit for someone who supposedly spends his life hiding in the stacks."
"Books are heavy."
She barked out a laugh. "You are most definitely Coralyn's protégé.