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|'What are you carving?’
‘Charging bucks,’ Amber replied diffidently. She sheathed her tools abruptly.|

Sometimes I catch myself wondering if Fitz truly deserves this kind of devotion from Beloved. But dual rereading this with the main series... Fitz has his problems, god knows there are times where anyone else would've walked away, but the truth is that Fitz loves Beloved just as much as Beloved loves him.

Somehow within the two years since I last read this book, I forgot how realistic it is and how many bad memories it brings up, the way everyone refuses to believe Althea that Kennit brutally raped her; not even the being who knows her to her bones, not her close friend who is also a woman, not her nephew - only Kennit's "partner" believes her, and even then Etta fucking /attacks/ Althea rather than killing Kennit.

It makes me so fucking sad and sick to my stomach that Paragon automatically equates consensual sex to pain and terror and blood and shame. Fuck you, Igrot, for taking two young boys' innocence and forever changing the way they view sex, even decades on. It is not at all an excuse for Kennit raping Althea later in this series, because he deserves to die for that just as much as Igrot, but - fuck, this shit sucks.

i am so ready for paragon & kennit's reunion. it's going to be a mess; kennit's either going to completely deny knowing paragon, breaking his heart & shattering his mind further, or freeze up at the sight of him & i am so excited for it all.

this must have been when readers began figuring out amber was the fool. the earring, a prophet, her fever leaving her with more color... god, that reveal must have been insane.