Zala’s Reviews > The Obelisk Gate > Status Update

yeah i do wonder what essun ever saw in jija

”So they leave the Antarctic Fulcrum behind, with new crops greening in its fields and cooling corpses in its administrative building and a collection of shining, multi-colored human statues scattered about its gardens and barracks and walls.”

OH he’s garnet, makes sense

”From a small hole near the bone you see something wriggle forth. The hole is the cross-section of an artery. The something is the iron shard, which drops to the smooth green floor and then lies amid the splattered blood as if it is nothing more than a harmless bit of metal.”
what tf was that

not essun doing the same as was done to her to her daughter…

”You quelled a dozen disasters a night.
He nods, and belatedly you remember waking up during the night in Meov sometimes to find Alabaster blearily awake and watching Corundum. You remember teasing him, in fact, on his worrying, when Coru was clearly no threat to anyone.”

”It is a manipulation. Something of her is warped out of true by this moment, and from now on all her acts of affection toward her father will be calculated, performative. Her childhood dies, for all intents and purposes. But that is better than all of her dying, she knows.”
this is so sad, the hate I have for this man is infinite

”Somewhere with obsidian walls and gilded bars, a place that will die in a cataclysm of fire in ten years, so perhaps it is good that he is too damaged to remember this location. In any case the angry whispers have begun steering him in a different direction. Somewhere south. Where he has work to do.”

”Did she not know that Schaffa would love her son as he loved her? He would lay the boy down gently, so gently, in the wire chair.”
the hate I hold for this man

satellites 🤔