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thunderon:

so um. ya kno how muir likes to do her thing with heavy handed foreshadowing? the multiple times muir writes about harrow theoretically killing ianthe in a substantially similar way to mercy’s attempt at killing john…

He did not turn a hair at wedded, or, as lanthe would, say back exactly what you had in a high-pitched voice, for which you would one day jerk her white and beating heart from her colourless ribcage and eat it dripping before her.ALT
Perhaps there was a dark universe in which you reached for her; in another you exploded her heart in her chest.ALT
You could press your hand to lanthe's chest, if you wanted--which you didn't, naturally. and the blood-warm sternum beneath would gradually unfold for you. But it would take effort, and close contact, and you would need to know the sternumALT

….. three times… and then harrow’s intimate description of ianthe’s ribcage/clavicle in the bone arm scene… i think i have a bold speculation about what might happen in the next two books…