Nicole

But we know it's the troubled Mindweft who gave Vea the bangle, or who Vea won the bangle from.

Yeah, I think she was saying don't go in there, Pyrock, because she believes it's supposed to be burnt to a crisp and that the remains of Essie are up there and she doesn't want him buried.

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

She's going to do whatever it takes to embrace it in order to save her family.

And it's like, this is what makes her choose to save her family rather than chase Arkin's death, which I'm just, I'm going to quote this entire thing from cons POV.

The declaration packs me full of compounding relief and deep primal pride.

As I realized that this time she's not choosing to chase death, but life she's choosing our daughter.

She's choosing love.

Also, there's this moment of Rave tapping into this queenliness when she commands Arkin to stop reading and quote, "...around us the mountain trembles.

Even the whip of flame in Arkin's hand seems to squirm as he stills, watching me with sizzling intensity."

I hope so badly that Hadeon does not disappoint me in being an absolutely fucking idiot, like another H-named brother in fantasy who I want to just throttle with a spoon.

I'm not either.

Okay, then Sarim sets Arkin's dead body on fire.

He burns away and slowly from the ashes, a mass of ruddy gold-tipped bloomage begins to grow.

Remember, when he was alive, he chose not to speak.

It wasn't like he couldn't speak, but he chose not to speak.

We learn, or rather have it confirmed, that the first time a moon fell after 5 million phases, i.e.

Ravens, etc., it was because Kazari was screaming with, quote, too much pain and loneliness.

That was so painful.