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“It would have been too much to ask for Pasha to be stupid or incurious.”

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“The last thing she saw of the carpenter was his wide green eyes as he melted underneath Garda’s own atlas. His hair slid off his scalp, his bones turned to brittle chalk, and his blood boiled, turning black against the stone street....”

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“The nail under her hand was burning her. Blisters rose on her palm. Instead of fighting it, Pasha fumbled with the nail and in a breathtaking display of stupidity, jammed it into the stump of her pinkie finger. It went halfway in and with a terrible howl she slammed it against the mast, sending sparks of blue fire up the beam.”

Lady what 👁️👄👁️

‘“Is this her first voyage?” Pasha asked, refusing to acknowledge how deeply attractive it was when exceptionally hot, well dressed, and generally mean people spoke about ship dimensions and armament with authority.’

I felt this

“But a Meridian could, with the right mysteries, draw on the power of the ocean itself to create an eikon with a near-unlimited supply of magic. This ritual—called a starbinding (or more colloquially, a starfucking)—was the key to Meridian supremacy on the free oceans. And only the Regnants were ever taught how to do it.”

Starfucking 👁️👄👁️

“They would see her iris shimmer, the sunstone chips that had been inserted into Pasha’s eyeball refracting the lamplight in yellow and blue flame.”

Grills but for your eyeballs??