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“We found Volga sitting on the steps of the high city, cradling Ephraim. She tried holding him together, but his body fell apart when she stood up. I will never forget the look on her face. It has chiseled away the stone of my heart, leaving a wound of empathy I haven’t the ken to mend.”

CASSIUS???

AND ALEXANDER this just gets worse and worse.

Fuck you fuck you fuck you

“Yet Sefi is blind. She does not see how the words seep into the ears of the three thousand honor guard. How the men in the room look at the skinned skuggi—all of which were conveniently male and castrated—or how Valdir, champion of male braves, is now branded traitor.
It was never about old ways and new. It was always about gender.
How could she be so fucking blind? How could I not see it festering?”

Is Ephraim gonna die now just because I said he’s my favorite…

And if I say Ephraim is my favorite of this book?

I think every book the pacing gets worse

“I do not feel brave. I am not the center of this symphony. No one even cares I’m here.
Where is the immortal majesty the poets promised me? Where is the stern will my ancestors preached to their children?
It was just an illusion conjured by fools who never left their libraries, or by agents of necessity.
This is the Noble Lie.”

“I loved my godfather, despite his deeds. Whether that is evidence of a personal failing or a moral imperative to love those who were kind to one as a child, I may never know.”