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lastflowerofyourhouse:

> ok rereading nona the ninth and i can’t believe this never occurred to me but. the kids know about resurrection beasts. they know varun the eater by name.

> but like. of course they do. this is what people are constantly being “resettled” over, isn’t it? it’s not just the war. the lyctors move people off populated planets to flip them. of fucking course beautiful ruby knows what a resurrection beast is. even if he doesn’t understand it, even if he doesn’t know it by that name, of course he would know what it is. of course these people have names for them.

> i can’t believe i never considered this before. the children of the nine houses are raised not even knowing about them. harrow, with all her appetite for learning, with an entire library of nasty, forbidden little books at her disposal, had never even heard of them until she became a lyctor. but fucking kevin knows what a resurrection beast is. he knows their names, because he has to.

> john has spent ten thousand years keeping them off his precious houses, and he did that by leading them straight into the path of populated planets. this isn’t even subtext. we knew this. this isn’t new information. i had just never really thought about it in those terms before.

> jesus christ, john.