coach ben has the energy of a brother who got stuck babysitting his younger sister’s sleepover and it was going fine until the sun went down now he has twelve gremlins running up the walls hissing. someone broke into dad’s knife display. there are bras in the freezer. half the group is huddled in a circle chanting in tongues trying to levitate a girl, the other half are mixing ketchup and toilet water and forcing each other to drink it. he keeps finding one of them sniffing his pillow. how does she keep getting back in he locked the door? there are two mean lesbians in the corner whispering.
They had become a symbol of hope for their torn and drowning county and a scary story for young Drüskelle boys to shudder at.
Nikolai sometimes wondered what it felt like for Vera: to be hated and feared by the country she loved so dearly. If Ravka was the drowning man Nikolai planned to drag to shore with his last breath, then Fjerda was her’s. Despite all her words and her determination, he knew Vera would die for her country. Even if it was at Fjerda’s own hands.
Melissa Broder, Problem Area
Vera Kvalheim was a ghost. Vera Alekson is a soldier.
To many, the tale of Lynora Lannister was a cautionary tale: a warning of what happened to young maidens corrupted by Prince Daemon Targaryen. The only daughter of the Warden of the West had gone from maiden to mistress to outcast of the course of her life.
Their story had started, as they often do, with a wedding. But by the end of it, Lynora had been left with a broken heart and a bastard son, and Prince Daemon had gone to the next woman with his favor.
Lynora never forgot. And Loren Hill never forgave.
I’ll be the star / You can be the horrified one. (Alicia Ostriker)
Isolde Emmerich is the cat hiding in a prey’s skin in Malfoy Manor and Draco Malfoy is the mouse. Her kill will bring his master’s empire down. (Prodigal Son, Draco Malfoy)
