N.K.Jemisin

The Obelisk Gate

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  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    I will make certain of that, for you.

    (But not for you.)

    What is that supposed to mean?

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    How ironic. This is the first time you’ve ever seen a stone eater made of alabaster.

    And then you are gone.

    Wait what ?

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    “He left you a message,” she says. Her inflectionless voice is no different, and yet. Somehow. Is that pity? “‘The onyx is the key. First a network, then the Gate. Don’t rust it up, Essun. Innon and I didn’t love you for nothing.’”

    I fricking loved him, and still do.

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    And you’ve killed yet another person you loved.

    Damn,talk about sobbing

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    “No one will kill her.” That’s Hoa. Of course he’s here now, guarding his investment.

    Lerna shifts uneasily at this. But then another voice agrees, “No one will kill her,” and you flinch because it is Antimony.

    At least they have her back

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    Or maybe you can just call it Alabaster.

    It’s five thirty.

    I am crying

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    It gives him power, but what good is power if it comes on a spiked leash?
  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    To those who have no choice but to prepare their children for the battlefield
  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    But in the moment, in the pent seconds after this happens, as Nassun writhes and tries to drag her mind back from falling, falling upward through watery blue light,

    She is calling the obelisk.

  • fanhas quoted2 years ago
    she turns Eitz to stone.

    She did what now?

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