#gideon thinks

[locking-the-tomb]

"How are you?"

said Camilla, who was a pill.

[locking-the-tomb]

Finally having the narrative (((spoilers follow)))

curtain lifted in HtN, just in time for Gideon to liveblog her fight with the heralds using Harrow"s problematic body is just so much perfection.

I had become so accustomed to the confused, cloudy, uncertain, wrongness of where Harrow had been that Gideon's brashness is extra brash, her humor extra fun.

[locking-the-tomb]

I wanted you to USE me, you maligned, double-crossing, corpse-obsessed, bag of bones, you broken, used-up shithead! I wanted you to live and Not Die, you imaginary-girlfriend-having asshole! Fuck One Flesh, One End. I already gave my Flesh to you, and I already gave you my End.

[locking-the-tomb]

Which did Not make me Happy, Harrow!

[locking-the-tomb]

You were always such a little bitch when you were angry.

[locking-the-tomb]

The look on her face was completely alien. Harrowhark Nonagesimus was looking at her with unalloyed admiration.

[locking-the-tomb]

This is dumb.

- thought Gideon just before seeing the first construct

The arms kind of looked like swords. I want to fight it.

- said Gideon just after seeing the first construct

[locking-the-tomb]

A bleached and charmless reed of a human.

....

You've got two minutes left before I punch you right in the butthole.