Gideon's Spirit

I do remember one of the things I liked about GtN is how enthusiastic Gideon is about things. No she doesn’t want to go with Harrow to the Lyctor trials, but she’s excited to be off-planet and she’s excited to meet new people and she’s excited to try new things. She just seems so full of life. She presses her face up against the window as they come into the atmosphere of the First House and says the line-up of shuttles is “exquisite” and “incredible.”

Here is how she describes Canaan House after getting off the shuttle:

“The metal was caked with salt from the water, salt that now assaulted Gideon’s nose: a thick, briny scent, overpowering and wild. The whole place had the look of a picked-at body. But hot damn! What a beautiful corpse.” (pg. 70)

Gideon just seems fascinated with everything: with the First House, with Teacher, with Dulcinea, with the air and the sky and the water. Honestly I think it’s her most charming trait: her vivacity.