Camilla was crouched down, wiping her knives on one of their jackets. When she looked up, Nona was electrified. One of her eyes was a pale, pearlescent grey; the other one of her eyes was a deep, cool stone colour. Nona understood in a sudden shiver what she was looking at.
its true that romance amd friendship will not solve everything but. objectively speaking its very hard to get sad when you can say ‘lets go get cake tomorrow okay’ and someone will go get cake with you. like there is some good at least. you know
I haven’t reread htn in awhile so this could be either canon or completely wrong, but I like to think that whenever post-lobotomy Harrow felt that someone was missing from her life, her brain helpfully supplied the image of the Body.
Your mouth was very dry when you said: “My affections lie buried in the Locked Tomb.”
“And let them lie,” she said, laughingly, and not very kindly.
[image description: a digital illustration of a scene from the locked tomb series. it shows ianthe leaning over to kiss harrow in a hallway in the mithraeum. harrow turns away with an angry expression as ianthe cups her face and kisses her cheek. text below, surrounded by a decorative border of bones, reads, “you said, ‘i appreciate your part in this, tridentarius,’ but before you could stop her, she drew you close with her living arm, and she bent her head to yours. you understood this inevitability only a second before it happened. perhaps there was a dark universe in which you reached for her; in another you exploded her heart in her chest. in this one, as she lowered her mouth, you turned your face away, and her kiss fell on the side of your jaw.”]
I’ve gone to the women’s restroom a lot in my life, and not once have I ever seen genitalia besides my own while there. No penis, no vulva, nothing.
I’ve literally seen a bathroom full of baby lizards, one time a whole fucking fish on the floor, and someone come out of the stall with a plate, knife, and fork like they just ate a meal before I’ve seen genitals. Why would I ever be worried about seeing some woman with her cock out