How ironic. This is the first time you’ve ever seen a stone eater made of alabaster.
And then you are gone.
Wait what ?
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“He left you a message,” she says. Her inflectionless voice is no different, and yet. Somehow. Is that pity? “‘The onyx is the key. First a network, then the Gate. Don’t rust it up, Essun. Innon and I didn’t love you for nothing.’”
I fricking loved him, and still do.
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And you’ve killed yet another person you loved.
Damn,talk about sobbing
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“No one will kill her.” That’s Hoa. Of course he’s here now, guarding his investment.
Lerna shifts uneasily at this. But then another voice agrees, “No one will kill her,” and you flinch because it is Antimony.
At least they have her back
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Or maybe you can just call it Alabaster.
It’s five thirty.
I am crying
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It gives him power, but what good is power if it comes on a spiked leash?
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To those who have no choice but to prepare their children for the battlefield
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But in the moment, in the pent seconds after this happens, as Nassun writhes and tries to drag her mind back from falling, falling upward through watery blue light,