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Description: Your former childhood companion, and warrior in your family service. She has always been a stalwart protector but recent events have shaken your relationship to its very core. Will you two wether this storm or will you grow even father apart .
Ok! Here’s the stuff I found interesting about book 3! Lots of Kahlil’s POV, hell yeah!! I love my child!
The thing that strikes me the most is how much I’m enjoying Kahlil’s POV. This is my fifth time reading these books and I don’t think I’ve ever loved him more tbh.
“muscular auburn-haired man.” - In all of my rereads, it never registered that Saimura was a redhead.
“Have we met before?” - Oh wow of course Saimura would also recognize him...
“Breathe as much as you like. It’s free,” - Ooooh because the air in Basawar is thin, and the air inside the greenhouse is probably full of oxigen, ok, I don’t think I’d realized this before
“Even Alidas had never been able to provoke such a reaction from him.” - Kahlil’s crush is showing...
“He remembered the torn envelope, the letter with its single word: Don’t. Don’t fail. Don’t forget. Don’t let him live. Only one word to obey, and he hadn’t managed it.” - Hi yes I’m sad again
““A prostitute?” An undignified image of the fifty-year-old Alidas working a street corner came to his mind and Kahlil almost laughed aloud.” - Let him laugh you cowards.
“I’m sorry that it turned out like this, but perhaps it’s for the best. At least your life is your own now.” - Ahh poor Kyle, either he has to kill his crushes or they have to kill him... what bad luck
“His life was his again. It was like inheriting a burning house.” - U G H
“He didn’t want to die, but the choice wasn’t his.” - STOP DYING SO MUCH
“suddenly had an insight into how Fensal must have felt about him eating the goatweed.” - "it makes you look the stupidest" is what Fensal said to Kahlil. Kahlil is thinking this about Jath’ibaye
“I have [wanted to die], from time to time,” - lowkey heartbreaking, John
“You let him poison you because you thought it would be easier than breaking up with him? Do you have any idea how stupid that sounds?” - L M A O
“He had come back to Basawar to kill the Rifter and instead the Rifter had saved him.” - My heart
“ He had never wanted to do it in the first place. He had liked John—more than liked him, if he was truly honest. He thought that he might even like Jath’ibaye if he got to know the man.” - MY HEART
“I wish I had.” - Wow i love how they're talking about different things in the same conversation
Aaaan we’re back at Rathal’pesha, which let me tell you I was not excited about this time around, if only because I know things are horrible and then they get horrible-ler. John is fighting in the mud and kicking everyone’s ass. Two years have passed since they arrived in Basawar, which is kind of a lot:
“Instead, it seemed that the soil accommodated him, shifting and folding to support him.” - That's because it is, ya dummy
“It would mean facing Laurie and Bill and telling them that this world would be where they lived from now on. Sickness would dominate the rest of Bill’s life; servitude and repression, the rest of Laurie’s.” - Everthing is horrible
“John gave Fikiri a brief smile and the young boy returned” - I’m sad
“the sense of utter revulsion—a physical sickness—that came from touching the edge of the Gray Space.” - I wonder if other people feel this or just Jahn because he’s the Rifter. My guess is it’s the latter.
“He’s a good man.” Fikiri’s voice trembled and he dropped his gaze submissively to his own feet. “You shouldn’t be hurting him.” - Poor Fikiri... If only he didn't turn out to be such an asshole...
“I know this, and Ushvun Jahn knows this. For the sake of your education, Ushvun Jahn has offered himself to assist you all to learn.“ - I’ve said this before but fuck Dayyid
“how much Ravishan and Dayyid resembled one another, not just physically, but in their mannerisms. The inflections of their voices and their expressions mirrored each other. No wonder Dayyid became so infuriated when Ravishan turned a commanding glower on him. It was Dayyid’s own glare.” - I know now that Dayyid is Ravi’s uncle but I don’t think we know this by this point... it sucks
“He broke a prophecy.” - I guess this puts a lot of pressure on Fikiri.
“We smells its blood,” - Do the issusha'im speak English?? Is that why their speech pattern is weird, because they're not fluent?
“You should sleep,” Ravishan told him. “You as well,” John replied. “I’ll be right behind you. Don’t worry.”“Don’t take too long,” John said. “I’ll be waiting.” - Such saps...
“It was easy to find Ravishan’s shorter locks in the sameness of bowed heads and long black braids. Fikiri too stood out with his dark blond hair. Both knelt directly behind Dayyid at the edge of the dais.” - Fikiri and Ravishan as opposites. Same history of abuse, same pressures, but they became different people. Maybe the difference in the influence of John and Laurie: peace or vindictiveness?
“fanatics like the Kahlirash’im in Vundomu” - Not that the Kahlirash’im are not fanatics, but it’s the pot calling the kettle black at this point (Hann’yu is not a fanatic, but most of the priests at Rathal’pesha are)
“Then the conversation turned to the vague prophesies surrounding the Rifter. It was good to hear about things that had nothing to do with him for a while.” - L M A O
“except one finger bone,” - Talking about the original Rifter, who was missing a finger bone. Doesn’t Kahlil have a skeletal finger by the end too?
“John didn’t respond. He wasn’t inclined to believe in curses, but he also wasn’t inclined to believe in gateways to other worlds or men who traveled through the Gray Space. He’d been living around too many things that he wasn’t inclined to believe in to feel completely secure in his skepticism.” - FINALLY
“A den of sin and revolutionaries.” Hann’yu smiled as he spoke. “It’s a beautiful place.” - hahaha
“His roommate Kyle had been the last Kahlil, and he had been on Nayeshi hunting for a Rifter.” - Took ya long enough Jahn
“Guilt still nagged at John for the theft. Now, it seemed a far worse transgression. Kyle, the last Kahlil, had ended up torn to pieces in the White Space between worlds.” - He still feels guilty about the key. Also, he thinks Kyle’s dead, which I guess is part of why he didn’t recognize Ravishan...
“What an awful thing to have to tell someone: you’re the Rifter, the living incarnation of destruction, desolation, and death. He couldn’t even imagine how much worse it would be to be told such a thing.” - Oh baby
“He wouldn’t have shacked up with his destroyer-god for months just to hang out with him, would he?” - YES HE WOULD
“Living in Basawar had only made her resent being told what to do even more than she normally had. John couldn’t blame her. As a woman, the culture didn’t afford her much respect. Even with her relatively elevated status as Lady Bousim’s attendant, Laurie didn’t have the right to venture outside the Bousim grounds without a male escort. She couldn’t carry her own money and she couldn’t be out past six bells when the sun began to set. [...] Basawar had changed all three of them. With everything she was and everything she did being wrong here, Laurie had grown to expect condemnation and offhanded dismissal. She had become angrier than she ever would have been and more defensive.” - Sad
“He dreamed of the dark chambers high in the monastery, where doorways led nowhere. He saw a room full of mutilated bodies, skinned, but still struggling. Their slick bones writhed against bindings of red wire while they whispered threats into his sleep.” - I guess the first time around I thought this was just nightmares, but now I know it’s the Issusha’im looking for the Rifter, huh
“The thought of Ravishan bound and burning on the Holy Road destroyed John’s desire in a moment. “I will not put you in that kind of danger,” John said flatly.” - Oh no
Oh well, that’s all for book 3. On book 4 we’ll get to more heartbreaking stuff, and I’ll miss Kahlil’s POV!
