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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.

"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.]