some points. some things. some ideas. none of which are connected, i’m sure.
- “anastasia” means “resurrection” or “one who will be reborn.”
- she is the only one of the original lyctors explicitly stated to have sired her house’s line of succession.
- this is vitally important (important enough to have been actively preserved against all odds for 10000 years), but nobody seem to quite understand why, including the reverend family.
- alecto says “you are the blood of anastasia,” as if this is relevant to her. she then kisses harrow and draws blood.
- it’s only after getting verbal confirmation and (presumably) tasting her blood that she pledges her sword to harrow.
- she says “i am sorry about samael,” as if that would mean something to harrow, as if she expects harrow to have the same grief over anastasia’s cavalier that anastasia did.
- the ninth house is “the house of the sewn tongue,” which is a ritual for the keeping of secrets. it also sounds oddly flesh magic-ey for the ninth, which means they probably didn’t originate the practice.
- this would imply that it’s relevant to their history somehow.
- the ninth’s skull is jawless, which we know from the ianthe situation is the way to undo the effects of the sewn tongue.
- when people talk portentously of the ninth, they talk about its “secrets” and its “mysteries,” always in the plural.
- which implies that there are more secrets than just the tomb. i doubt they added the plural after the creche flu, can you imagine? the ninth has other, very old secrets.
- harrow loved alecto from sight.
- alecto recognized her immediately.
like i said, this is a series of random, unconnected facts. there are no conclusions whatsoever to be drawn from this.