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Sometimes you found yourself standing, gorge risen, staring at the great sword left untidy and naked on the floor. You would not remember rising. You would not remember how you had come to be there. Sometimes you would forget who you were, and at recalling yourself, weep like a child.

30.01.2026 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The hand touched her face, her mouth, her eyebrows, smoothed her temples. As if knowing her thoughts by her face, the voice whispered: โ€œDonโ€™t. Itโ€™s very easy to die, Gideon the Ninth ... you just let it happen. Itโ€™s so much worse when it doesnโ€™t. But come on, chicken. Not right now, and not yet.โ€

30.01.2026 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

What could she do with the little selfish thought that now Camilla and Palamedes were goneโ€”even if they had left behind Paul, which was probably quite nice of themโ€”and Pyrrha was broken somehow, it was hard to want to live, hard to want everyone else to live, even lovely Crown?

06.01.2026 00:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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

04.01.2026 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

You may hate me all you wish; I still donโ€™t even remember about you half the time.

28.12.2025 02:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โ€œLieutenant Crown Him with Many Crowns, good luck. Pyrrha Dveย โ€ฆ I am amazed to say this, but I wish you luck. Nonaย โ€ฆ I wish you luck. Youโ€ฆโ€
We Suffer paused. Camilla-and-Palamedes cocked their burnt head to one side.
โ€œPaul,โ€ they suggested.
โ€œPaul. Good luck, Paul,โ€ said We Suffer.

27.12.2025 03:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œI say, hereโ€™s to Pyrrha, the woman I cultivated a smoking habit to impressโ€”the cavalier, the legend, the stone-cold foxย โ€ฆ John, please stop joggling my elbow, I have heard stone-cold fox from your own holy lips.โ€
The Emperor protested, โ€œRespectfully! Respectfully.โ€

26.12.2025 22:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

โ€œGood girl,โ€ the voice was saying. โ€œOh, good girl. Sheโ€™s got it, Gideon! And Iโ€™ve got you โ€ฆ Gideon of the golden eyes. Iโ€™m so sorry. This is all my fault โ€ฆ Iโ€™m so sorry. Stay with me,โ€ the voice said more urgently, โ€œstay with me.โ€

26.12.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œAs you promised me, so I promise youโ€”I will devote every resource I have to the attempt. Tell me what you need.โ€
โ€œA pair of scissors,โ€ said Camilla. โ€œIris dye.โ€ She looked at Nonaโ€™s button-up shirt, which was unbuttoned to show the T-shirt underneath. โ€œAnd the blackest clothes you can find.โ€

24.12.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œOhโ€”โ€ He used a word you did not understand. โ€œHarrowhark, no theorems!โ€
โ€œDonโ€™t be ridiculous. She canโ€™t be using theorems,โ€ said Mercy. โ€œSheโ€™d be barely awake and itโ€™s totally beyond her at this poiโ€”John, stop her, sheโ€™s using theorems!!โ€

09.12.2025 23:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โ€œBut first, Griddle, Iโ€™m afraid I have to pass out.โ€
And she crumpled neatly back onto the floor. Pure sentiment found Gideon kicking out one leg to catch her. She ended up lightly punting her necromancer on the shoulder but assumed that it was the thought that counted.

09.12.2025 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And so Alecto took that iron sword, and with one hand pierced Johnโ€™s chest with it, even to the heart.
At which John awakened and said, Annabel, good morning.

09.12.2025 01:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

You found your mouth and eyes screwing up, as though against the light, or a sour taste; you could not help it. But the vile course of action was obvious. You leant down andโ€”holy shitโ€”kissed her squarely on the mouth.
This, at least, she hadnโ€™t expectedโ€”how could she, what the fuckโ€”

08.12.2025 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Camilla came through, and with her, upright and calm, was Harrow. For one wacky moment Gideon thought that she and Camilla had been holding hands and that today was one huge rash of interhousal hand fondling, but then she realised that their wrists were cuffed together.

07.12.2025 13:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œOh, Iโ€™m Camillaโ€™s partner. But I canโ€™t stay.โ€
โ€œI see! Lovely to meet you,โ€ said the Angel, unaware of how her eyebrows betrayed her, like everyone else in the world to Nona seemed unaware of how their eyebrows betrayed them, by immediately saying plain as day: Camilla?? Really??? Camilla????

06.12.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Harrow, the last time I chose to die, I died with your face the last thing I ever looked at. Let me tell you a secret: it was easy to die thinking I wouldnโ€™t have to see you go. It was so easy to check out before you did.

06.12.2025 03:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โ€œHail to the Lady of the Ninth House,โ€ warbled a voice delightedly, bringing the count of people who had ever been happy to see Harrow up to three. โ€œHail to her cavalier. Oh, hail, hail! Hail to the child of the far-off and shadowed jewel of our Empire! What a veryโ€”happyโ€”day.โ€

05.12.2025 18:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

She looked back beyond, and she saw Anastasia, tucked where nobody would find her: Anastasia, all bones. Not really Anastasia. But Anastasiaโ€™s body without the meat on it, snuggled right into the curve of the rock, ready to close the door whenever it was opened. She remembered Anastasia.

04.12.2025 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

LEMBREI A SENHA

04.12.2025 22:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Then everything changed, abruptly, forever. Harrowhark fell in love.

15.08.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œThis wonโ€™t work,โ€ she said. โ€œIโ€™ve never had to work with something so small before.โ€
โ€œThatโ€™s what she said,โ€ murmured Gideon, sotto voce.

04.08.2025 02:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Then she counted, and at the end of five counts there was Pyrrha at the door saying, โ€œAh, my darling hearts, my sleeping babes, Daddyโ€™s own treasures,โ€ and Camilla saying without opening her eyes, โ€œGo to bed. I just got her to sleep.โ€
Nona fell asleep and was happy.

02.08.2025 09:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I KISSED YOU AND LATER I WOULD KISS HIM TOO BEFORE I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE, AND ALL THREE OF US LIVED TO REGRET ITโ€”BUT WHEN I AM IN HEAVEN I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE

02.08.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โ€œYouโ€™re a nice girl,โ€ the Lyctor said. โ€œI had a nice girl as a cavalier too โ€ฆ once. She died for me. What can you do?โ€

02.08.2025 02:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

You know the worst part? She cried. She and Aโ€” both cried. In each otherโ€™s arms, like babies. They were so fucking scared. And I was right there, and I couldnโ€™t do piss. Everything I was and everything I had done, and I couldnโ€™t do a damned thing.

14.07.2025 23:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Magnus said quickly: โ€œJeanne said to tell Gideon hi. If you see her before we doโ€”โ€
โ€œThough try not to with any great hurry,โ€ said the Fifth spirit-caller.

14.07.2025 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œOrโ€”you can go back home again,โ€ he said. โ€œI have not assumed youโ€™ll
agree with me. I will not force you or buy you. I will keep covenant with
your House whether you come with me or stay at home.โ€
Harrow said, โ€œWe canโ€™t go home again.โ€

14.07.2025 02:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œHave you been eating sand again?โ€
โ€œI havenโ€™t eaten sand in months,โ€ Nona protested, then more truthfully: โ€œWeeks,โ€ and more truthfully than that: โ€œOne week.โ€

13.07.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There was no betrayal of any emotion on his face: not the surprise that had dawned over his heavy-lidded eyes earlier, nor anger, nor even dissatisfaction. He caught your gaze. You held his.
And the Saint of Duty lifted his lit cigarette to you in an unmistakable salute.

12.07.2025 18:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Harrow saidโ€”
โ€œI cannot do this.โ€
โ€œYou already did it,โ€ said Gideon. โ€œItโ€™s done. You ate me and rebuilt me.
We canโ€™t go home again.โ€

12.07.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2