so in my ACOMAF audiobook i have always hated this part in chapter 42. warning: i become the Joker.
so, context: its stupid, not needed, but Rhysand has Feyre act as his whore when at Hewn City so Az can steal the orb that will show Human Queens Velaris. its a dumb and stupid set up cuz Rhys, the most Powerful High Lord in HistoryTM could just FORCE Keir to hand it over but no, gotta demean your mate in public for sexual tension /s. anyway tho, this is the scene at the very end. what happened? Feyre was leaving since Az had gotten the orb and … let me play out:
I felt the eyes of the court slide to me, felt them all sniff delicately at what was so clearly written over my body. But as I passed Keir, even with the High Lord at my back, he hissed almost too quietly to hear, "You'll get what's coming to you, whore."
Night exploded into the room.
People cried out. And when the darkness cleared, Keir was on his knees.
Rhys still lounged on the throne. His face a mask of frozen rage.
The music stopped. Mor appeared at the edge of the crowd her own features set in smug satisfaction. Even as Azriel approached her side, standing too close to be casual.
"Apologize," Rhys said. My heart thundered at the pure command, the utter wrath.
Keir's neck muscles strained, and sweat broke out on his lip. "I said," Rhys intoned with such horrible calm, "apologize."
The Steward groaned. And when another heartbeat passed--
Bone cracked. Keir screamed.
First off, Rhysand, you literally paraded her around as your wh#re, and youre upset when Keir calls her exactly that (which means the "mask" was working, which is what you want!)? so basically you set the guy up to be punished. dumb. moving on, to the part that really pisses me off:
And I watched-- I watched as his arm fractured into not two, not three, but four different pieces, the skin going taut and loose in all the wrong spots-
Another crack. His elbow disintegrated. My stomach churned.
Keir began sobbing, the tears half from rage, judging by the hatred in his eyes as he looked at me, then Rhys. But his lips formed the words, I'm sorry.
The bones of his other arm splintered, and it was an effort not to cringe.
Rhys smiled as Keir screamed again and said to the room, "Should I kill him for it?"
No one answered.
Rhys chuckled. He said to his Steward, "When you wake up, you're not to see a healer. If I hear that you do…" Another crack-Keir's pinkie finger went saggy. The male shrieked. The heat that had boiled my blood turned to ice. "If I hear that you do, I'll carve you into pieces and bury them where no one can stand a chance of putting you together again."
Keir's eyes widened in true terror now. Then, as if an invisible hand had struck the consciousness from him, he collapsed to the floor.
Rhys said to no one in particular, "Dump him in his room."
Two males who looked like they could be Mor's cousins or brothers rushed forward, gathering up the Steward. Mor watched them, sneering faintly--though her skin was pale.
He'd wake up. That's what Rhys had said.
I made myself keep walking as Rhys summoned another courtier to give him reports on whatever trivial matters.
But my attention remained on the throne behind me, even as I slipped beside Cassian, daring the court to approach, to play with me. None did.
And for the long hour afterward, my focus half remained on the High Lord whose hands and mouth and body had suddenly made me feel awake-burning. It didn't make me forget, didn't make me obliterate hurts or grievances, it just made me … alive. Made me feel as if I'd been asleep for a year, slumbering inside a glass coffin, and he had just shattered through it and shaken me to consciousness. The High Lord whose power had not scared me. Whose wrath did not wreck me.
And now -- now I didn't know where that put me.
Knee-deep in trouble seemed like a good place to start.
the last part… gurl wtf are you RAMBLING abt? EVERY time i reach this part of the audiobook i get "my god SHUT UP already, what does this have to do with what you just watched??? YOU WATCHED A (shitty) MAN HAVE HIS ARM BROKEN. IK RHYS WAS FEELING YOU UP IN THE CHAPTER AND THAT TURNED YOU ON, BUT THAT DOESNT MAKE SENSE HERE." like i dont know what the fuck shes saying. this section couldve worked better NEXT chapter. but no, we have it shoved here. what does that have to do what you JUST watched???? it DRAGS and i HATE IT.
where was the damn editor for this book.
