Rereading Gideon the Ninth and it still blows my fucking mind the way one of the most important events in the story in hindsight is (MILD SPOILERS)
". . . she'd wrestled Harrow down in the dirt, and Harrow had scratched until she'd had half of Gideon's face beneath her fingernails."
and it was such a vivid but unimportant detail that I remembered it and it popped into my head when it became relevant again and SYKE UNIMPORTANT YOU THOUGHT



















