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shayberri789 · 1 year

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My theory on the NtN ending:

Cassiopeia wasn't the only one to betray Jod thousands of years ago. She wasn't the only one to see that what Jod was doing was wrong and put plans in place to deal with it.

Anastasia the first almost had perfect lyctorhood and watched her God kill her cavalier in front of her so she couldn't do it. Maybe she really would have died. Maybe she would have gone the paul route. Maybe she would have survived and Samael would still be around. But he was killed in front of her and she had no say in it.

Alecto was odd, and a little dangerous, but she's the soul of the earth and if Jod could kill the most important person to Anastasia of course he could kill the thing who loved humanity so much she gave them power over life and death.

And when the Lyctors were convincing him to kill his pet revenent beast, the pin point of his greatest sin and a being in constant pain and hurt, maybe Anastasia, the one left behind, the one maybe magicked to silence through a sewn tongue, cursed jaw, felt sympathy and kinship with Alecto. Maybe she knew Jod would never truly kill Alecto. Maybe she was the first person in hundreds if not thousands and millions of years to look at Alecto with compassion and actually say "I will help you if only you tell me how". Maybe she made a promise to protect Alecto, maybe she made a promise to look after her while she sleeps. Maybe she made a promise that one day she'd come and wake Alecto up and they'd solve things together. Maybe one day they can undo what John did and maybe Alecto can have peace, finally, one day. And maybe Alecto swore that for the debt of waking her again she would do anything for Anastasia, any one thing, if Anastasia woke her up in a time when things could change.

But by the time Anastasia, frail with her necromancer build and squirreled away at the edge of the solar system, started reaching old age she realized it was too soon to wake her up. Too soon to send her into the lyctor viper pit again, not while Anastasia was so weak. So she tasks her daughter with guarding the tomb. "This door must stay shut until the day comes when the emperor must die" she says, and her daughter repeats this to her son, and so on and so forth until the body in the locked tomb becomes Armageddon. Not locked away for her own protection, not awaiting the day for the tomb keeper to wake her up and try again, not awaiting the day when the nine houses get to restart. No, she's the greatest enemy of god, she must be locked away lest she start Armageddon, locked away for the protection of the emperor and their duties to her tomb an icon for devotion.

But the bloodwards hold for 10000 years and one day the curse of silence will be lifted from the jaw of the ninth house tomb keeper, and the oath to Alecto is preserved in the Anastasian bloodline. And the daughter of the tomb keeper has awakened the monster once again

#this is me attempting to put a storyteller spin on a hc thats been buzzing around in my skull since i finished ntn #shay posts #tlt #the locked tomb #alecto the ninth #alecto the first #alecto theories #harrowhark nonagesimus #harrow the ninth #gideon the ninth #anastasia the ninth #anastasia the first #nona the ninth #alecto #griddlehark

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crys-shifts · 9 months

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`ˑ ִֶ 𓂃🌊 nwjn dr introduction

about me

𓇢𓆸 full name: cassiopeia star lai

𓇢𓆸 stage name: cass

𓇢𓆸 other names: lai mei lian (chinese),

𓇢𓆸 birthday: 12.16.2004

𓇢𓆸 gender: female

𓇢𓆸 signature:

idol life

𓇢𓆸 face claim:

𓇢𓆸 speaking claims: my own voice

𓇢𓆸 dance claim: konon nishimura

𓇢𓆸 singing claims: my voice just sounds good :)

life

𓇢𓆸 family: katherine lai (mom), chris oren lai (older brother),

𓇢𓆸 friends: ni-ki, jungwon, eunchae, wonyoung, beomgyu, joshua, bahiyyih, jj,

𓇢𓆸 friend groups: iconic thingz (ni-ki, jungwon, eunchae, wonyoung, jj, hanni, danielle, soul, and me), die as in dye your hair (danielle, jungwon, ni-ki, and me)

𓇢𓆸 dr vibe:

*got lazy so i scripted that i took hyein's place because her age is low key scary and i didn't feel like distributing lines... she's going to debut later.

#(✩) — crystal's drs #reality shifting #kpop #kpop dr #kpop shifting #shifting #shifters #shiftblr #shifter #new jeans shifting #new jeans dr #nwjn shifting #nwjn dr

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siennafrxst · 1 month

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꒰🍵꒱ sienna’s masterlist︙🌲

all of my self-insert fanfics

click here to access my icons + moodboards

໒꒱ ‧₊˚ marvel

loki laufeyson - all too well (pt. 1)

loki layfeyson - all too well (pt. 2)

loki laufeyson - cassiopeia

loki laufeyson - a christmas surprise

loki laufeyson - forgive

peter parker - do you trust me?

peter parker - mistletoe

peter parker - a snowy night

bucky barnes - human again (pt. 1)

bucky barnes - human again (pt. 2)

bucky barnes - busted (ft. sam)

sebastian stan - a drunken night (pt. 1)

sebastian stan - a drunken night (pt. 2 version 1)

sebastian stan - a drunken night (pt. 2 version 2)

໒꒱ ‧₊˚ harry potter

draco malfoy - run

draco malfoy - forbidden love

໒꒱ ‧₊˚ mcyt

tommy innit - dare

໒꒱ ‧₊˚ how I met your mother

barney stinson - fate (prequel)

barney stinson - fate (sequel)

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cronakillz · 18 days

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✣cassiopeia ✣

DAY 9: CREATE A SIM ENTIRELY IN GREYSCALE

cassiopeia is a bit much. she is an alien assassin, gracefully wielding dual handguns to take down anyone she is hired to. although skilled in every way, she will only accept a job she thinks is fun, and worth her time. she has no loyalty to human or alien kind, only working with whoever she finds the most interesting. she is eccentric, self absorbed, moves as swiftly as a drop into water, and has a smile like a wrecking ball. although aliens and humans may find her quite annoying, they can’t deny her otherworldly beauty and grace. she is incredibly captivating! her only weakness? compliments. it won’t hinder her much, but if you genuinely compliment her beauty or skill, you might save yourself a few minutes of life. she is a trans icon, pansexual menace, and overall girlboss tbh. i love her.

i will provide a list of creators soon! i’m sorry!

#simblr #ts4 #sims 4 #sims #sims 4 creator #sims 4 cas #sims cas #my sims #the sims 4 #sims 4 cc #cassiopeia #aprilwithcrona #alien sims #trans sims

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aurelion-solar · 2 years

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Bewitching Senna, LeBlanc, Cassiopeia, Neeko & Anivia Icons 🎃

#senna #bewitching senna #leblanc #bewitching leblanc #cassiopeia #bewitching cassiopeia #neeko #bewitching neeko #anivia #bewitching anivia #league of legends #league of legends skins #league of legends summoner icon #summoner icon #harrowing #tales from the rift #official

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uranusgallery · 7 months

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「 League of Legends 」

[ Coven :: Splash Arts Edition ]

Se usar, favor, creditar @UranusMang

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howtodrawyourdragon · 4 months

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Read 32 books and graphic novels/comics and such in 2023, which is 31 more than 2022 and 32 more than previous years because I was not able to pick up a book (or comic/graphic novel) and finish it for years.

So all in all, this has been a great year for me! I look forward to reading some more in 2024!

Books and graphic novels I read under the cut. (Quite a few titles are in Dutch)

How to Train Your Dragon

How to be a Pirate

De Eerlijke Vinder

Twin Crowns

Museumnacht

Autisme - Vrouwen op het Spectrum

Stranger Things - The Other Side 1/2

Stranger Things - The Other Side 2/2

De Zusjes Duizendblad - 1 - De Droom Van Sarah

De Zusjes Duizendblad - 2 - De liefdes Van Cassiopeia

De Zusjes Duizendblad - 3 - De Schat Van Lucy

Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds

Frida Style Icon

De Zusjes Duizendblad - 4 - De Gems en De Komeet

Wolfwalkers - The Graphic Novel

De Muziekdoos - Welkom in Pandoria

Het Parijs Der Wonderen - De Betoveringen Van Ambremer 1/2

Avatar: The Next Shadow

How to Speak Dragonese

Cursed Crowns

The Wedding

Marijke Redt Het Internaat

How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

Jommeke - Baron Anatolsky

Camp Damascus

The Darkening

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Imbalance

De Drager - 1 - Nimf

Stranger Things - Six 1/2

Stranger Things - Six 2/2

De Drager - 2 - De Stad Van De Duizend Pijlen

De Drager - 3 - De Schaduwen Die Ons Binden

#i can let my bullet journal for 2023 rest #personal

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notoriouslydevious · 2 years

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Spirit Blossom Cassiopeia Icon by JM Yu

#spirit blossom #cassiopeia #spirit blossom cassiopeia #league #notoriouslydevious #leagueoflegends #league of legends #artoflegends #art of legends #JM Yu #JM Yu artstation #spirit blossom cassiopeia fan art #cassiopeia fan art #league fan art #league of legends fan art #cassiopeia league #league cassiopeia #league of legends cassiopeia #cassiopeia league of legends

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teamshinyhunters · 1 year

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Moments I Will Never Forget From My First Time Playing Pokemon Scarlet

- Randomly seeing a pink fluffy Mareep in a pile of other Mareep. The excitement and then horror at realizing that shinies don't make sounds when they appear in the overworld. Wondering, hoping, and paying that was a glitch and they would eventually fix it

- Not realizing until days later that I had seen a shiny shroodle and also a shiny tadbulb, but I didn't realize they were shiny until I left the area and finally noticed all the others looked different from the ones I had seen; which is when I realized they were probably shinies so I looked up a shiny Pokedex. From that day on I committed many shinies to memory to correct my mistakes and also learned about spawn rates & how it works

- The first time I ran into a Paldean Taurus. Fucking RUN.

- The first outbreak I did being Cyclizar and hating every moment because of how fast they were, and having Tinkatuff's slow ass chase after them made me rage. I didn't find a shiny which is when I looked into shiny rates; but my team did gain 10 extra levels from ko'ing the whole outbreak which also pissed me off bc I was purposefully trying to stay under leveled. Also when I first realized outbreaks in this game were massively different from Legends Arceus.

- Speaking of Tinkatuff, the first time I saw Tink I knew I loved her and would always have her by my side. My OG team was Sprigatito named Bean Burrito, Quaxly named Sir Quaxalot, Fidough, Charcadet, Tink, and Pawmo. They are my most cherished friends and now all of them have the best friend ribbons 🥺

- The first time I ran into a Flamigo. Fucking RUN.

- Not following "Gym Order" and walking into the Quaking Earth Titan Great Tusk with an under leveled team and almost getting my ass handed to me- almost! But Quaxly came through in the end. One of the most iconic moments of my playthrough tbh

- Continuing out of "Gym Order" I fought Atticus without any good poison counters. I had a flittle but it hadn't evolved yet so it was very frail and kept dying. Atticus kicked my ass so hard I still remember that battle anytime I hear the Team Star Boss Battle music. Around 2 minutes of that theme is when I was fighting his Revaroom on the brink of total annihilation, running through revives for my whole team which kept getting decimated. I believe Tink dealt the final blow. Top 10 moments of the game I will never forget.

- Clavell disguised as Clyde. Oh my god I love this man so much. I'd always call him on his bullshit just to see his reactions xD

- Calling very early on that either Penny was Cassiopeia or that Cassiopeia was the Team Star Boss. Feeling my suspicions growing stronger each time Penny appeared out of nowhere each time.

- Making Herba Mystica sandwiches for my asshole Koraidon. I could never refuse him 🥺 also probably the first time you meet Koraidon on the beach and all you can give him is a sandwich lmao

- Another "Out of Order" moment, I wandered up to Alfornada right after the first gym. Needless to say I was in over my head w my lv20's team vs lv45 wild pokes chasing me. But I didn't want to have to trek there again so I kept running, kept running, kept running, got lost because I couldnt jump very high nor could I fly or swim or any of that yet so I ended up jumping to that little sand route. Eventually I got to the cave leading up to Alfornada and kept running until I was finally out. But holy fuck, panic attack the whole mf time.

- What the FUCK is Bombirdier??? Is that.. Is that A STORK???? OH MY GOD. And why do they suddenly appear everywhere after you beat the Titan??? I remember thinking this thing looks cool.

-WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS GIANT EARTH WORM??? oh it's named ORTHWORM???? WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING THIS THING IS HUGEEEEEE. One of my favorite surprise moments.

- Doing classes! And actually learning cool things I never learned about Pokemon before like the battle calcs and stuff in Math! And then the teacher sidequests!! I felt very giddy the whole time and it was one of my favorite things to do!!

- Eventually realizing that Pawmo had another evolution and wondering how tf to get it to evolve. "go jogging w ur Pokemon pals" 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

- Dendra being Tulip's (wife) Gym Challenge. Dendra's storyline about being bad at cooking. Just. Dendra 😍

- BECOMING OBSESSED WITH BRASSIUS AND HASSEL and also the Easter eggs & homages to ORAS with the secret base decorations in Artazon.

- RHYME AND TYME ARE SISTERS???????????????????

- Near the end of the game I started procrastinating hard core because I was having too much fun and didnt want it to end. I had like 4 gyms left (Alfornada, Montenevera, Glaseado, and Medali), 2 Star Bases (Fairy & Fighting), and 1 Titan (dragon). It took me about a week to start playing again.

- Making my way to the Fighting Star Boss without doing the final Titan (which unlocks wall scaling) and I didnt know there was an actual path that led to that area either so I had to get creative. I scaled the entire mountain on my own and just kinda... Fell down the slope until I was in the right area. Fkn iconic, until later post game I came back and realized there was a whole path I could have taken instead 😭

- Finishing the Path of Legends and then figuring out we needed both Penny & Nemona to go down to Area Zero

- MY DUMB ASS NOT REALIZING THERE WAS A GATE IN MESAGOSA THAT LED TO THE POKEMON LEAGUE SO INSTEAD I SCALED THE WALL OUTSIDE THE CITY AND CAME UP THE BACK WAY. then I saw the gates and was like WHAT THE FUCK YOU MEAN THERE WAS A GATE, WHERE TF DID THAT COME FROM LIKE WHO PUT THAT THERE?????

- *clears throat* Rika. That is all.

- *clears throat again* Geeta. That is all.

- Penny being the Team Star Boss!!!! TEAM STAR'S ORIGINS!!! PENNY BEING THE PERFECT REPRESENTATION OF SOCIAL ANXIETY I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!!! Penny becoming my favorite character 😭

- AREA. FUCKING. ZERO. The first time I got down there. And the music played???? I LEGIT CRIED. I had to stop playing because I was so overwhelmed with how beautiful it was. I couldn't pick the game up for another week because that Area Zero Theme had shocked me so much I was so obsessed with it. Definitely one moment I will never forget for my entire life.

- THE ENTIRE SAGA OF AREA ZERO. THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN ARVEN AND THE OTHERS IS ICONIC. As a victim of child abuse myself I felt his entire personality throughout the whole game was very accurate and relatable. But when he called out Penny for badmouthing her dad & Nemona for being raised like a spoiled princess, I was like yeah I recognize that bitterness, anger, sadness, and regret; and was very happy and surprised to see that kind of dialogue in a Pokemon game. I don't even think Lillie and Gladion had those kinds of moments in SM after dealing with Lusamine's bullshit their whole lives. Arven really solidified the storyline for me personally. Everything about him was so well written.

- THE BOSS FIGHT AGAINST AI SADA??????? I have this image in my head every single time I hear the VS Sada/Turo Theme-- the paradox pokeballs falling from the machine into AI Sada's hands, then she sends out Sandy Shocks, Slither Wing, and Roaring Moon-- I hadn't seen any of those yet. I had chills, legit goosebumps at this part and it's all I can think about anytime I hear the VS Sada/Turo Theme.

- also the first time AI Sada's text gets warbled!!!! Holy fuck that is such a stand out moment in my mind. Then it gets progressively worse and I love how AI Sada's text is full of inverted letters and symbols and omg it's such a great touch. One of the most iconic scenes for me.

- Finishing the post game, the teacher tournament, and seeing Penny's, Nemona's, and Arven's dorm rooms. Such a wonderful little touch.

- Being done with the story but still exploring the map & finding watch towers I have never been to yet 🥴 so far I've found 5 towers, just random ones that I missed. Love that tbh.

- And now I'm just doing raids & casual shiny hunts from time to time! Waiting for the DLC and contemplating starting a new game!!

🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

#pokemon #pokemon sv #pokemon violet #pokemon scarlet #pokemon scarlet and violet #paldea #arven #penny #dendra #brassius

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iviarellereads · 10 months

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Nona the Ninth, Chapter 23

(Curious what I'm doing here? Read this post! For detail on The Locked Tomb coverage and the index, read this one!)

(Sixth House icon) In which Crown has a point: aesthetics are important, dangit!

Nona takes a few steps toward the dais, and Ianthe comes down the rest of the way, to examine her. Ianthe declares there's no way this should be working, and asks Crown if Harrow's been blind the whole time. Crown says she left out some details, but she doesn't see what the big deal is. Ianthe says she's having feelings in two separate nervous systems and it's not making her feel less intensely.(1)

Ianthe asks Harrow (Nona) if she has anything to say for herself. Nona replies simply "No". Ianthe remarks that Cam's glasses don't belong to her, and Cam says, "Noted". Ianthe says it's just rather curious, and taunts Cam and Harrow both, then asks if Harrow has a comeback. Nona says "No" again and Ianthe says she rather expected for Harrow to march in here demanding the return of her cavalier's body. Nona remains silent.

Ianthe gets impatient and asks Cam if she knows why they're there. Cam says she doesn't play guessing games. Ianthe taunts her again.

Crown said quickly, “Camilla, don’t bother. Everything’s going to be fine,” and Ianthe said pettishly, “Honey, stop telling people things are going to be fine. Things are, I promise you, not going to be fine. Things are, frankly, going to be antonyms of fine.”

Cam suggests Ianthe wants the Sixth House back. Ianthe says, not herself, but God does, and badly. At first when the facility went missing(2) he thought it was his temper and the resulting solar flare(3) that had destroyed it. They were very surprised to find that it was proper missing, and Ianthe asks how they moved it. Cam admits they used 532 obelisks together. They discuss the relative details until Cam withholds an answer, and Ianthe says she'll just ask one of the Oversight Body for it.

Nona's eyes start to itch from the fake cataracts.

Crown says Ianthe can't get away with killing off the Sixth House's governance. Ianthe remains confident, but Crown says the way to deal with a morale failure is to leave them in place, even under arrest. Ianthe says the Houses will just be happy to get any of the Sixth back, Crown protests that the Sixth will never be loyal again, and Ianthe says she'll teach God to apply the boot(4) after being so hands-off for so long.

Ianthe breaks off her fanatic rant to observe that Hect is smiling.

Nona, astonished, turned to Camilla without thinking; she tilted her head back immediately, afraid of being caught out, but by then she had seen Camilla’s face. Camilla was smiling: an easy, loose little smile, as though she were listening to a story. She said, “Yes.”

Ianthe demands she explain. Cam asks if God knows why the Sixth left. Ianthe assumed some moral reason. Cam says the Sixth "doesn't move for moral philosophy." Ianthe asks, what then? Cam says Cassiopeia left them instructions many years ago. Their founding Lyctor told them to.

Ianthe yells at Duty (Pyrrha), demanding an explanation. Pyrrha confirms she died, but can say no more.

“Then how?” But Camilla and Pyrrha didn’t answer. The Prince passed one hand over her dead blue-and-brown-spattered eyes and said, “Oh my God. This is the last thing we need. If he hears that yet another one of his duplicitous sluts(5) betrayed him, he’s never going to come back from it. He’s so fragile right now. Not even if we scourge Antioch and fly the First flag from the tallest tower.”

Pyrrha says Cassy liked long games. Ianthe gets very frustrated, and Crown throws herself at Ianthe's feet, wrapping her arms around Babs's legs.

When Crown spoke her voice was low and tender, the lowest and tenderest voice Nona had ever heard: “Baby, it sounds awful.”

Crown suggests Ianthe abandon her post and come with her. Nona would have done it immediately, but Ianthe is harder to move, and calls Crown ridiculous. Crown says they've been apart so long, screw the system, they can go off on their own, be together, start over.(6) It's not until Crown says she knows people who need them that her grasp on Ianthe really slips, and Ianthe laughs coldly.

“‘People.’ Oh, darling, you’re always everyone else’s girl. Don’t worry … I fully intend for us to be us, together, now … but I have the framework for it and you, my poor dummy, do not.(7) Don’t worry about anything. Seriously, you need to relax. And to moisturise. And to cut your hair,” the Prince added critically, moving to stand. “I’m hagged as hell … believe me, you’ll know that when you see me … but you need some serious triage before I can do anything with you. I doubt you even have a skincare routine right now.”

She removes herself from Crown's embrace, leaving Crown looking hurt. Ianthe asks Pyrrha where the other live ones are. They discuss troop positions inside the building, and Crown starts laughing at Ianthe for "talking military."

Ianthe comes to stand in front of Nona again, and comments that Harrow is never this quiet. She outlines what happened when Harrow was last seen, ponders aloud how Harrow can stand beneath Varun's presence, and suggests she might be addressing someone else.

The fist tightened. No would not do; Yes was worse; Cam had told her to pretend to be the Captain. Nona decided to pretend to be the Captain, and opened her mouth, and screamed like the Captain had screamed. She had never been good at coming up with conversations. Nona simply made her mouth go as the Captain’s had gone—she could remember the movement, it was easy—and she screamed, “Help! Help! Help!” for want of anything better to say. The scream moved through her chest and up her throat and out of her nose. When she let it out, it did not at all sound like when she had heard the Captain do it. The scream somehow seemed to take all the lining of her throat with it.(8) It was like the scream was made of her insides—her insides dissolved and resolved themselves by coming out her lips as a vocal bomb. The electric light sizzled in its housing. The room went dark. Prince Ianthe Naberius dropped her and staggered back, and Nona completed her Captain impression by pitching forward, onto the carpet, facedown, practically senseless, aware of nothing but the scream—a noise that seemed to keep coming out of her nose and ears and mouth. She went away from herself briefly.

When she regains consciousness, she worries she'd vomited or something, but has only coughed up some water.(9) Her surroundings, however, are chaos. Ianthe has drawn a rapier, which is bloodied at the tip. Pyrrha is on her hands and knees, with a gun nearby, knocked from her hands. Crown is flanked but not held by two dead soldiers. Cam is held and pinned immobile by four of the dead guards, though her knives are still in her hands. Some of the dead are on the floor, unmoving.

Honesty and Hot Sauce and the others had been right. She didn’t like this zombie stuff at all.

Nona worries she's ruined the plan. Ianthe stands and points at her, and some of the dead soldiers seize her.

“You,” said the Prince, “are coming home to the Emperor tied and gagged, and not as a sex thing. You”—this was to Pyrrha—“prep to leave. This is over. I’m not wasting any more time here. Ready the shuttle to get us out in an hour. We have too much to lose. Duty, are you alive?” Pyrrha said, with difficulty— “Yes.” And: “Everyone with a necromantic body is down.”(10) Pyrrha said, “The Sixth House—” “Oh, fuck the Sixth House! Daddy(11) can have you three safe and sound … well, soundish … and like it. I’m extracting my sister before anything else happens.”

She tells Crown she'll get her wish, and Ianthe will even take the rap about the whole becoming an Edenite thing. Then she addresses Cam, who Nona notices has a long, freely-bleeding gash down her chest. Cam asks if she ever intended to emancipate the city. Ianthe says, no, she just wanted the Sixth back "as a goodwill gift for God." She's not staying anywhere there's a Resurrection Beast. But the Sixth isn't a priority, so Cam isn't needed.

At this, Nona notices Pyrrha has stood back up, and Crown has taken a step toward Ianthe.(12)

Ianthe offers to kill Cam here, or remove her limbs and kill her after interrogation. She adds that Cam saved Ianthe's other arm and her legs, but she wasn't good enough to save the first arm, so Ianthe's still holding a bit of a grudge. Cam offers an apology, but Ianthe cheerfully does not accept it, and offers again, death now or deferred?

Crown says she'll never forgive Ianthe if she kills Cam. Ianthe says they're traitors, and she has to pick her battles. She'll save Crown, even save Judith, but she has no reason to save Cam. She offers, one last time.

“You challenged the Sixth for its keys,” she said eventually. “You named the time. You backed down, but I had right of reply. We didn’t consent. Or reject. I accept the challenge of the Third.” Prince Ianthe Naberius looked at her. The expression was—strange.(13) “That was a lifetime ago,” she said. “Over a year.” “The challenge is valid.”

Ianthe asks what the stakes would be now, then. Cam offers, if she loses, she dies now. If she wins, she walks away. She won't even ask to take Harrow. Ianthe says Hect can't kill or disable her in Babs's body, and she's taken away the weaknesses that once existed between them.

Cam says she wants to die on her feet. Ah, at this, Ianthe refuses. The setup is too suspicious, Cam can't be doing it without an ulterior motive. She has the dead soldiers force Cam to kneel, but movement catches Ianthe's eye, and her head turns to see that Pyrrha has gotten her gun back, and tossed it to Corona, who points it at her own throat and demands that Ianthe free Cam. Ianthe says to stop this, she wouldn't want Corona to get hurt when Ianthe's soldiers take the gun from her.

“I wouldn’t get hurt. I’d just die,” said Crown, her bronzed throat working against the barrel. “You’re not all-powerful here. All you have are wards and puppets. I shoot, the bullet goes through my palate and into the brain, and then you’re the Crown Princess of Ida … like you never wanted.” “Stop being so fucking dramatic—” “Staaahp being so fucking dramahhhtic,” Crown mimicked, in a high-pitched voice. “This isn’t the time, you dumb, hilarious bitch!” “You don’t even know how to fix Naberius’s hair! He needs it done pompadour! He looks awful!” “That’s your opposition? Seriously?”

Regardless, Crown says she'll do it, for real this time. Ianthe doesn't think she has it in her. Crown closes her eyes, and Ianthe says urgently that she really can't save both Cam and Judith. Crown says Ianthe should duel Cam, then. Ianthe says Crown will be mad at her when she kills Cam, but Crown promises she won't, as long as the fight is fair. Ianthe protests, you can't get a fair fight between a Lyctor and a human.

Crown was pleading, “One fight … one last duel. You challenged her with Babs, you know, back on Canaan House. I didn’t do it. So follow through, for me. You always do things for me, don’t you? My heart’s own … my necromancer.” Prince Ianthe Naberius shuddered.

Ianthe says she'll do it if Crown drops the gun. Crown hesitates, but does so. Ianthe doesn't go back on her word, and tells Crown to arbitrate. Crown declares "Parietal(14) to calcaneus,(15) I suppose" and sets the remaining conditions, such as no active necromancy. When Cam asks, what about her, Ianthe offers that if Cam can get Ianthe's handkerchief out of her shirt, Ianthe will consider Cam the winner. Cam doesn't seem to take this very seriously.

The dead soldiers release Cam, and she straightens herself up, picks up her knives. Nona almost wants to scream again, but she's dizzy and nauseous.(16) She can see clearly, so she thinks she's blinked out the dye and lens inserts. She thinks back to the only other fight she's ever been invited to watch, between Hot Sauce and Honesty and some bigger kids who don't go to school, but that one didn't go on after Hot Sauce drove(17) a car and hit one of the other kids beforehand.

The fight begins, and Ianthe and Cam banter a bit, and the fight goes on. Nona tries to take slow breaths, despite the smelly hand over her mouth. If she can just stay calm, maybe it will help Cam. Eventually, Cam does something rather spectacular and flashy that I hesitate to try to describe here, go read it yourself again, and ends up with Ianthe's right wrist in Cam's right hand, and Ianthe's sword in Cam's belly.(18)

“You really don’t know when to throw those things, do you,” said the Prince a little sadly. Camilla said, “Match to the Sixth.” Ianthe said, “What?” and then her eyes rolled backward in her head and she fell.(19)

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(1) I'd like to think that doubling of perception and feeling is why Ianthe doesn't seem to really catch on that Harrow isn't Harrow, even though Nona is doing a very poor job of being Harrow even for a little while. (2) I don't think it was made clear earlier that they literally unmoored the entire complex from Mercury and flew it off to BOE territory. (3) Ah yes, the one when Mercy vaporized him. (4) The jackboot of totalitarianism, of course. (5) This is one of the main fandom names for the Lyctors these days. Can't argue with it. (6) This and the glove kiss and all the embracing… these two aren't carrying on like any twins I've ever known. More like the Hitachiin twins from the Ouran High School Host Club manga. (7) Personally, I read this as that Ianthe wants to incorporate Crown's soul now that she's had practice eating Babs's. It would be much more convenient to know that your twin is forever a part of you and can't disappoint or upstage you with her caring about people and being a better leader. (8) Sounds a lot like what she was doing when she had her tantrum. (9) That's an awfully strange thing to cough up after a scream like that. In her tantrum she'd been screaming blood and the lining of her throat. I suppose the "her insides dissolved" line wasn't a complete exaggeration? Also, interesting how often Nona's relationship to water comes up, isn't it? (10) Something about the cry took out everyone who could use necromancy. Judith's screaming didn't take Pal out, though. Why would Nona's use of it be more powerful? Or is it just that Pal was protected by the same means as from Varun's light, because he stays so short a time in Cam's body? (11) She really just called Jod "daddy". (12) Neither is going to let her go without a fight. (13) What would Ianthe be thinking, in that big ol' brain of hers, inside Babs's emotions as well? What would the reminder of Canaan House do to her? Or is it the thought of dueling Cam? (14) The parietal bones are part of the skull, which stitch together to form the main of the sides and top. The… crown, if you will. (15) The calcaneus is one of the bones in the heel of the foot. So, the fight is fair hits from head to toe. (16) From fear for Cam, or aftershocks of her screaming? (17) Let's be honest, stole. (18) It's a classic move to take a deathblow to issue one yourself, but I am once again forced to wonder if Muir has read the Wheel of Time, because a particular sword move that results in just this situation in that series is a major plot point. (19) What did Cam do? How am I supposed to stop reading right now? (Oh right, I don't have to, I can just write the next post!)

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