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rocky41_7 ([personal profile] rocky41_7) wrote2022-08-09 10:11 pm

Re-read Bonus

 
 "At the top of the stairs they stopped, and the Reverend Daughter looked back searchingly.      
She said abruptly, 'Why did you want to be a Lyctor?'     
...      
The older woman was leaning against Protesilaus' arm. She looked extraordinarily sad, even regretful; when she caught Gideon's eye, a tiny smile tugged up the corners of her mouth, then drooped again. Eventually she said: 'I didn't want to die.'"

  -- Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir 

The first time reading: (┬┬﹏┬┬) It’s so tragic that Dulcinea has to die! 

The second time reading: AUGHSNGFGNGHHHHH

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