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4 months

“One flesh, one end,” said Gideon, and it was a murmur now, on the very edge of hearing. Harrow said, “Don’t leave me.”

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4 months

“Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”

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I WILL REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME YOU KISSED ME—YOU APOLOGISED—YOU SAID, I AM SORRY, DESTROY ME AS I AM, BUT I WANT TO KISS YOU BEFORE I AM KILLED, AND I SAID TO YOU WHY, AND YOU SAID, BECAUSE I HAVE ONLY ONCE MET SOMEONE SO UTTERLY WILLING TO BURN FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVED IN,

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3 years

“Gideon the Ninth, first flower of my House,” she said hoarsely, “you are the greatest cavalier we have ever produced. You are our triumph. The best of all of us. It has been my privilege to be your necromancer.”

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3 years

“Cam,” Palamedes said. “Go loud.”

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3 years

“I must no longer accept,” she said slowly, “being a stranger to you.” “Whoa, whoa, whoa,” said Gideon, sudden sweat prickling the back of her neck, “yes you can, you once told me to dig myself an ice grave. Stop before this gets weird.”

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4 months

PALAMEDES: “Harry”? IANTHE: It’s my little name for her, you know. PALAMEDES: I can’t think of a single thing she’d hate more. IANTHE: You lack imagination.

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4 years

You were so afraid she might touch you. You were so afraid anyone might touch you. You had always been afraid of anyone touching you, and had not known your longing flinch was so obvious to those who tried it.

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6 months

“Harrow—” “Yes?” “You know I don’t give a damn about the Locked Tomb, right? You know I only care about you,” she said in a brokenhearted rush.

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6 months

Harrowhark, I gave you my whole life and you didn’t even want it.

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4 months

It was the morning of the third day in a universe without her cavalier: it was the morning of the third day—and all the back of her brain could say, in exquisite agonies of amazement, was: She is dead. I will never see her again.

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3 years

She pressed her mouth to the place where Harrow’s nose met the bone of her frontal sinus, and the sound that Harrow made embarrassed them both.

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3 months

“Gideon, you’re all right … remember this, and don’t let anyone do it to you ever again. I’m sorry. We take so much. I’m so sorry.”

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3 years

“Ha-ha,” said Gideon, “first time you didn’t call me Griddle,” and died.

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3 years

“Strike me down. You’ve won. I’ve lived my whole wretched life at your mercy, yours alone, and God knows I deserve to die at your hand. You are my only friend. I am undone without you.”

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5 months

“I hope you know that I adore you, Scholar.” Clack. “Indubitably, Warden.”

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4 months

When you asked God why she was the Saint of Joy, he simply said: “I really intended those titles to describe the cavalier, Harrowhark, not the Lyctor. Alfred for patience; Pyrrha for duty; Cristabel for joy.”

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4 years

“Don’t go down there solo. Don’t die in a bone. I am your creature, gloom mistress. I serve you with fidelity as big as a mountain, penumbral lady.”

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4 years

I gave you my sword. I gave you myself. I did it while knowing I’d do it all again, without hesitation, because all I ever wanted you to do was eat me. Which is, coincidentally, what your mother said to me last night.

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3 months

Harrow said, “No.” “I want to go,” said Gideon. “This sounds impossibly vapid.” “I want to eat a dessert.”

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3 months

So you went to Ianthe, and you asked her how to make soup.

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5 months

BUT WHEN I AM IN HEAVEN I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE

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3 years

You’d touched that letter, and I—you know it was killing me twice that you weren’t there, right? You must know it was destroying me to be there in your body, trying to keep your thumbs on, and I couldn’t even hear your damn voice?

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6 months

“Good. Die. Die for her … it’s the only goddamn good you’ll ever do her. It’s all any of you ever knew how to give her. You could have lived for her … but you didn’t know how.”

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3 years

“But for the love of the Emperor, Griddle,” she said gruffly, “you are something else with that sword.” The blood all drained away from Gideon’s cheeks for some reason. The world spun off its axis. Bright spots sparked in her vision. She found herself saying intelligently, “Mmf.”

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5 months

And you said: “But why does Ortus the First want me dead?” “Who?” said Mercymorn, indifferently.

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4 months

“We had something very nearly perfect … the perfect friendship, the perfect love. I cannot imagine reaching the end of this life and having any regrets, so long as I had been allowed to experience being your adept.”

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4 months

PALAMEDES: I actually think Gideon was smarter than even she realised. IANTHE: You are, of course, entitled to your mildly patronising opinion. Gideon was a dope … and she died a dope.

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5 months

ONE FLESH, ONE END. G. & P.

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6 months

“I’d hardly call sucker-punching the Third cavalier keeping your head down.” “You disapprove?” “What? Hardly,” said Harrow, unexpectedly. “You should have finished the job.”

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4 years

“Do you want,” Gideon whispered huskily, “my hanky.” “I want to watch you die.” “Maybe, Nonagesimus,” she said with deep satisfaction, “maybe. But you sure as hell won’t do it here.”

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4 years

“One last question for you, Reverend Daughter,” said Gideon. Harrow said, a little unsteadily: “Nav?” Gideon leaned in. “Do you really have the hots for some chilly weirdo in a coffin?” One of the skeletons punted her back into the water.

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4 years

You said, “Fuck.” Then, more aggressively: “Fuck!”

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3 years

“You want to fight it.” “Yep.” “Because it looked…a little like swords.” “Yop.”

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4 months

And the trillionaires lied! They lied like their lives fucking depended on it! They had a glib answer for every question; I swear someone told them we were on to them beforehand!

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5 months

But souls are permeable. When they rub up against each other, they bleed—they mingle—they contaminate each other.

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5 months

Camilla was so sweetly handsome and good. Nona always wanted to be close to her. Pyrrha said it was puppy love, but Nona knew that puppy love was different, it just made you want to open the puppy’s lips and play with the puppy’s teeth.

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2 months

Nona buried her face in Cam’s chest. She listened to Cam’s heart thudding in her ribcage, the big soft da-DUMP … da-DUMP, and she was amazed at how fragile and silly a heart was, how poorly protected.

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5 months

“You should’ve seen the look she had on when she told me about this ice-lolly bimbo. I knew the moment I saw it. I never made her look like that … She can’t love me, even if I’d wanted her to. She can’t love you. She can’t even try.”

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3 years

“This is the Beast,” she said. Augustine said, “That’s a muffin.” “I see a cloud, but with a face,” said Ianthe. “If you take that main squiggle for an eye.” You said, “I thought it was a flower,” and God said, “No, yes, I agree, there’s something—florescent about it.”

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3 months

PALAMEDES: I’m surprised. He was very good-looking. IANTHE: Was he your type, Sextus? I doubt it very much … No, that was the tragedy of Babs. He looked as though he ought to be interesting, and he really very much wasn’t.

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6 months

“What does Palamedes find sexy?” Camilla took up the clipboard and the pen and wrote, serene and tranquil, underlining something once—twice. “Strong work ethic,” she said eventually. “High test scores.”

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3 years

HIM I’LL KILL QUICK BECAUSE SHE ASKED ME TO AND BECAUSE THAT MUCH HE HONESTLY DESERVES BUT YOU TWO MUMMIFIED WIZARD SHITS I WILL BURN AND BURN AND BURN AND BURN UNTIL THERE IS NO TRACE OF YOU LEFT IN THE SHADOW OF MY LONG-LOST NATAL SUN

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3 years

“Stay here,” I said. “Get fucked,” she said thickly. “I absolutely did not become the eighth saint to serve the King Undying so Gideon Nav could play hero for me.”

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5 months

“You’re a worse liar than Palamedes,” said Camilla, with feeling. “You’re not a good woman, Tridentarius.” “Not my name anymore, and none of us are good,” said Crown. “Except for Nona, of course.” “Thanks,” said Nona, deeply flattered.

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3 months

IANTHE: Oh, the tension is killing me. No, I’m sorry; it’s killing Hect. My mistake.

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5 months

Who was Pyrrha going to tell ass jokes to? Nona didn’t know; all of a sudden she felt sad and responsible that nobody was there to listen to Pyrrha’s ass jokes.

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3 years

In any case, both she and Harrowhark turned up, gorgeously gowned in their Locked Tomb vestments, painted like living skulls, looking like douchebags. Harrow clinked when she walked with the sheer multiplicity of bonely accoutrement.

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2 months

“Harrow,” said Ianthe gently, “don’t fuck with me. I’m not here for your amusement either.”

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6 months

Camilla smiled at her. For that smile Nona would have lived, if she had had any say in the matter.

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4 years

She had always thought—when she bothered to think—that Harrow would feel cold, as everything in the Ninth felt cold. No, Harrow Nonagesimus was feverishly hot.

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5 months

Palamedes looked at her, and then he took the notepad out of Camilla’s capacious pockets. Nona despaired: there was always a tick somewhere if she mentioned breasts.

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2 months

“I was always better than all of you—and none of you noticed—nobody ever notices, which is both my virtue and my downfall. How I hate being so good at my job … You noticed, didn’t you, you horrible little Ninth goblin? Just a bit?”

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4 years

She had left Harrowhark a note on her vastly underused pillow— WHATS WITH THE SKULLS? and received only a terse— Ambiance.

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4 years

“No. It’s Gideon Nav Talking Time.”

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4 months

“I may have been Sextus’s necromantic superior; but he was the better man. You are not even so worthy of that brain as to wipe its bloodied remnants from the wall,” said the Ninth.

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4 years

“I am mad,” she interrupted. “I have always been mad, since I was a child. I hallucinate sounds. I see things that do not exist.”

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4 months

“Being unexpectedly loved is so wonderful or terrible, isn’t it?” “Wonderful, I think,” she said.

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3 years

You remember how the fuck-off great-aunts always used to say, Suffer and learn? If they were right, Nonagesimus, how much more can we take until you and me achieve omniscience?

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3 years

“I will not suffer insult. I am the Reverend Daughter. I am a Lyctor. I am in your debt…but I am not here for your amusement.” “Not in that thing you’re not, certainly,” said Ianthe, whose lip was curling. “You look like a huge peppermint. Take this—and this.”

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5 months

Ianthe was screaming over the comm. Everyone waited politely for her to stop.

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5 months

“I should’ve stayed home and gotten married,” he said resentfully. “As though anyone was even offering,” snapped Ianthe.

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4 months

“He’s going to know, Hect. You’re killing each other.” “It’s our choice.” “He’s going to ask.” “Do what you’re good at,” said Camilla. “Lie.”

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3 years

Hell spat you back out. Fair enough.

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3 months

You told me, Sleep, I’ll wake you in the morning. I asked, What is morning? and you said, When everyone who fucked with me is dead.

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4 months

The princess, always so quick to sympathy and so quick to violence, was an easy mark from the start. I told her this once and she struck me. I was grateful at the time that she still viewed me as strong enough to strike.

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3 years

Then she said: “Sorry your clothes melted.” “Nav,” said Harrow, with the slow deliberation of someone close to screaming, “stay quiet. You’re not—you’re not…entirely well. I underestimated how long it would take me.”

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3 years

THE ONLY THING OUR CIVILISATION CAN EVER LEARN FROM YOURS IS THAT WHEN OUR BACKS ARE TO THE WALL AND OUR TOWERS ARE FALLING ALL AROUND US AND WE ARE WATCHING OURSELVES BURN WE RARELY BECOME HEROES.

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3 years

For a moment you assumed that you were hallucinating, but that assumption was startled away by the cool nearness of her, of Ianthe Tridentarius on her knees before you in unmistakable supplication.

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3 months

“I am the daughter of the House of the Ninth,” she said, cutting off whatever he had to say about suggestive emendations. “I am the unfulfilled vow and the bloody teeth of the unkissed skull. I acknowledge myself as a cruel disappointment.”

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6 months

He sighed and said, “We had the internet. We decided to stream.” She said, “What is this internet?” And he said, “See, I did make a utopia.”

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3 years

Gideon didn’t know if she could handle all these new expressions on Harrow: she needed a lie down.

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3 years

“You didn’t have to be a dick,” she found herself saying, thickly. “I like her.” “I don’t like her,” said Harrowhark. “I don’t like her cavalier.” “I still don’t get why you’re all up in arms against what is a very basic man hulk. Did you get the key?”

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4 months

They died happy. They loved it. She had a real talent. Harrowhark had attended so many deathbeds, and given so many solemn takes about death and duty, that in the end she started to believe them.

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5 months

Instead, she was Drearburh. She was Gideon Nav, and Nav was a Niner name. She took the whole putrid, quiet, filth-strewn madness of the place, and she opened her doors to it. Her hands were not shaking anymore.

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3 years

But the teen stuck her awful courage to its sticking place, breathed out hard through her teeth, and blurted very quietly: “Ninth…how big are your biceps?”

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3 years

Gideon added, “And don’t push me. The places where I can and would stick this thing for safekeeping would astonish you.” “Puke,” murmured Harrow. And: “Give me the water, Griddle.”

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4 years

THE EGGS YOU GAVE ME ALL DIED AND YOU LIED TO ME SO I DID THE IMPLANTATION MYSELF YOU SELF-SERVING ZOMBIE AND YOU STILL SENT HIM AFTER ME AND I WOULD HAVE HAD HIM IF I HADN’T BEEN COMPROMISED

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3 years

“The letter in question is constructed from six short marks stacked vertically three by three. There are two triangles on the top and bottom, which, along with some diagonal strokes, form a calligraphic S.”

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4 years

“And the pornography?” “I did offer him stupendous work of a titty nature, and he got offended,” said Gideon. “It was a very perfect moment.”

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3 years

Ianthe’s First House robes were somewhere on the floor, and her elbows were on the tablecloth, and her cheeks were pink, which gave her a spurious loveliness.

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3 years

“Okay, so,” said Gideon, putting her empty mug next to her mattress. “Um. You are now getting the impression that my relationship with her is more—fraught—than you might’ve guessed.” (“You shock me,” muttered Palamedes.)

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3 years

Ianthe ran a tongue across those wounded lips and said, “I suppose this is it.” You said, “I appreciate your part in this, Tridentarius,” but before you could stop her, she drew you close with her living arm, and she bent her head to yours.

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4 years

“Understand me, Harry. I always take the smartest option first…burn any bridges that need to be burned…try to get in before anyone else can. It was the first thing I ever admired about you, back at—well, I promised not to talk about that.”

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3 years

Her eyes were blue again, with those mountainous flecks of sea-parted brown, and for the first time you thought how much she resembled her twin.

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3 years

She said, “Don’t threaten me.” “Or what? You’ll tell Daddy?” His tone of voice hadn’t changed.

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5 months

Camilla was crouched down, wiping her knives on one of their jackets. When she looked up, Nona was electrified. One of her eyes was a pale, pearlescent grey; the other one of her eyes was a deep, cool stone colour. Nona understood in a sudden shiver what she was looking at.

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6 months

“I don’t let go,” said Camilla. “It’s my one thing.”

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3 years

“Six days. No sleep. She still manages a full skeleton commencement from diluted marrow. What else have you failed to see, Mercymorn—?” You were already at the door when her peevish response came: “But this is insane! She’s only nine years old!”

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1 month

“Harrow, you haven’t drunk too much, have you?” You had drunk exceptionally too much, and were dying to purge your kidneys manually. “No,” you said, at the same time that your seatmate said, “Very obviously, yes.”

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5 months

“I love you, Pyrrha, and I think you’re wonderful and very beautiful—” (“Are you kidding?” said Pyrrha. “I look like two elbows.”) “—but I don’t want to be married to you. You’d never act like you were married to me.”

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4 years

“I hated the sexy parties,” said Mercymorn, with an almost tearful vehemence, and Augustine said, “We know, Joy. We know.”

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3 years

“I am a Lyctor. I am a necromantic princess of Ida. I am the cleverest necromancer of my generation.” “Like hell you are,” said Harrowhark.

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3 years

If Ianthe Tridentarius knelt beside you then, no matter with what sugary contempt or filigreed Third condescension, you would press your diminished bloody terror into her; you would creep naked into her lap, shamelessly, and weep.

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3 years

It was the first time you realized God could not understand you.

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3 years

Ianthe looked at you, and in the paleness of her skin and in the shadows of her lips was her death, and yours.

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3 years

“You cut up an onion, burn it at the bottom of the pot, put in a few vegetables, and then some meat. It won’t taste like anything, so put in a few teaspoons of salt, and then it’ll taste like a few teaspoons of salt.”

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3 years

Another time you said, “I’m afraid of myself. I am afraid of going mad.” Another time, “I am still afraid of Cytherea the First.” And, “I am afraid of God.” And again: “Do I have Ortus’s eyes? Are these ones mine? I never really looked at them—Beloved, what were my eyes like?”

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4 years

Her brain was full of sweet fuck-all.

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4 months

The necromancer could not hide a triumphant smile. It stretched her mouth and made her split lips bleed. The sight was incomparably creepy.

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