In Gideon the Ninth Gideon says at some point that she refrains from hitting Harrow because “she’d never hit Harrow before and was afraid that once she started she wouldn’t be able to stop.” Now. That’s insane. All of their fighting for seventeen years on the Ninth and Gideon never hit Harrow. What does that mean? It seems clear that a lot of their scuffles were probably Gideon v Bones especially because I get the sense that it’s considered a little gauche to like? go directly for the necromancer? they seem to be ranged fighters for the most part. But that also means that when Gideon and Harrow had their big blow out that resulted in harrow getting so much of Gideon’s blood on her hands that she was able to open the Tomb Gideon STILL didn’t hit her. She tried to choke her to death, yes, but she never hit her. And that’s so. God these books make me insane.