i think a part of the 'you have not begun to see the horrors of love' will include varun and alecto. like, what does it mean for two planets to love each other?
varun clearly likes her, if 'my green-and-yellow salt water thing' is anything to go by (side note: why green and yellow??? i guess the green is reference to the ocean, and the yellow means there's less trees, but still. what happened to earth????) and the feeling is mutual at least on nona's end, but how far back do they go?
earth being able to gift john necromancy implies, at least to me, that planets in general know what the river is. so have varun and earth been hitting each other up through that, and that's how alecto got her message out to the other planets as she and they were all dying?
Congratulations on possibly the most esoteric ship in the entire Locked Tomb fandom.
I think of Varun as her cousin, or older sibling, but however we want to look at it with our human frames of reference, I bet you’re right. Varun does love Alecto, and somewhere down under all the fear and pain, Nona is still a part of Alecto and part of Alecto was Nona. She’s capable of great love, too, even if she doesn’t see it right now. Love on that scale, between planets and their ghosts, who knows what horrors that could lead to. Varun tried to destroy another planet and all its inhabitants because Alecto cried for help. It is asking Alecto to avenge it, to avenge all of them. What does that entail, to a planet? What will Alecto feel compelled to do for that love?
(And I think the ‘green and yellow salt water thing’ is a reference to the colors of Earth’s landmasses seen from space. Green forests, yellow deserts, and salt water)