okay i was thinking about that post you made about what random house citizens are thinking and you know what would seem so suspicious? the state of the corpses (or lack thereof) that the houses receive back. the missing bodies, the cremated remains, the gruesome ones seemingly attacked by a monster, or perhaps even most suspicious, one body killed by a rapier to the thought. like im sure at least some of this info leaks to the general public and im sure to theories are intense.
Fourth House Tisis Reps getting Jeannemary “crucified on a bed” Chatur and Baron Isaac “colander boy” Tettares’s bodies back like:
like they’d be used to getting fucked up and weird remains back, sure, but from the First House?? from the Lyctor trials?????
Imagine being the poor Third House guy who has to break the news that Ianthe’s ascended but Coronabeth, the Crown Princess and heir is in fact dead but no you’re not actually going to get any remains oh why? there was nothing to salvage :) so sorry for the inconvenience. you just KNOW they had a week of mourning. you just KNOW it was the topic of choice at every party for MONTHS. crazy theories. most people do believe she got eaten and are enthusiastic abt telling you.
Hi Trentham officials :) here’s Lieutenant Dyas’s remains. mhmm. yes, she did get turned inside out, what a bummer. We Could Not Recover Captain Deuteros’s Remains. Everyone running the mile for the next fortnight is like “i mean yeah, judith was a chickenshit, stuck up nepo baby *spits* but uh, how can there have been NOTHING TO RECOVER??”
Would not wanna be the person who has to write down “mysterious post-mortem incision to large intestine” on Abigail’s autopsy report. Yeah, no clue what happened at the First House but i do think it was a kind of Jigsaw Trap and unfortunately us Fivers are fucking weaksauce competitors who die first and get used as CHESTS
We already vaguely know abt the Sixth’s response to getting pieces of a shattered skeleton and Cam’s empty coffin (as fuckin if she wouldn’t leave an equally dope corpse) (also shout out to whatever psychometrist studied Pal’s bone fragments for a few hours before looking up and having to say that the explosion came from inside the Palamedes, must’ve been a tough gig, dude), but now i am thinking abt Rhodes recieving two urns and also this severed head :). that sucks. pressing F to pay respects to Mia and the kids, they deserved better than that.
truly believe the Eighth house had a distinct crisis of faith after recieving Colum and Silas’s bodies. what the fuck else could you do. Silas was very clearly stabbed with Colum’s sword and Colum has no eyes now. That does not bode well at all.
i think a lot about hot sauce and jeannemary. two young girls so ready to kill and to die. a comparison made all the worse when you recall that hot sauce lost all her family to the cohort, that she can specifically recall fourth style necromancy (using corpses as bombs). a fourteen and thirteen year old that could easily have been on opposite sides of the same front line.
