#cj's experience up on the platform with kessler reminded me so much of that chapter in senrid. the horror and the helplessness and the guil

[greatshell-rider]

congrats cj on your whirlwind dream tour of norsunder? ?? congrats on cool rock acquisition???

seriously thought the redhead might be fox for a hot second but no (<- has two thoughts in their head: where's fox? where's ivandred?)

kessler is.....listen. not to out myself but i mean. he's fun. i like him. i want to make fun of him. i want to pat him on his good evil head. his ideas for government are, of course, very silly and bad. mockery becomes them. im rotating him in my head. i do want to see him in a swordfight. i just know he's an inda fangirl. tau could probably fix him. i want to know more of his terrible opinions. what does he want with the lightning horse anyway? do you think he and alsaes- nay i shan't say it

i love.........this goes for all the MH books but i really like all the connections and reminders of inda's war academy experience. nicknames and slang and games and the politics/drama between kids in their group. and at kessler's camp, of course there's the weapons training and studying maps/battle strategies and that's just the academy. cj loathes everything inda did so well at and i doubt she'd ever like it had she been born and raised marlovan but i wonder how differently inda might've turned out had he born somewhere else and not had his whole life be dedicated and trained for warfare

#smith has a thing for public executions/punishments huh #cj's experience up on the platform with kessler reminded me so much of that chapter in senrid. the horror and the helplessness and the guil #the shame #doing nothing while watching someone die because you need to protect yourself in hopes of later being able to save your endangered friends #terrible feeling #poor world #sartorias-deles #im not going to stop thinking about kessler asking cj if she's never unfazed