mayasaura:

mayasaura:

Makes me feel a kind of way how Gideon does not once question Nona’s personality. Like, she knows who Nona is! She knows that’s the Death of the Lord, the monster in the Tomb, a being as old as her universe, and she’s furious with her. But she still sees Nona and adjusts her attitude to speak reassuringly to her, like a little kid. Even when she’s grilling her about Harrow, it’s: Where is she? It doesn’t matter what the answer is, just tell me. I promise I won’t get mad.

NONA WOKE ON THE COLD, shoe-smelling surface of the back of a truck, in the dark mostly. The seats seemed to close in on her arms and legs, and she panicked briefly, thrashing her head this way and that, until somebody said, quite gently—
“Chill.”

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“Listen, she can be in hell for all I care, I won’t get mad,” said Kiriona. “She can be at the bottom of the sea or at the bottom of space. I just need to know—where.”

"I won't get mad," is highlighted in purple.ALT

Gideon, furious, still treating Nona gently 🥺🥺