October 2024

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an illustration of a passage from Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. it has a bright red background and depicts two renditions of Alecto. first one has her in profile, on top of the illustration, her skin is dark brown, her hair looks like a stylized ocean wave, her sclera is black with a glowing white ring where the iris should be. the second one is at the bottom, she is looking directly at the viewer with glowing yellow eyes. she has a fair skin and blond hair, her face is mostly in the shadow. her mouth, chest and hair are covered in blood. the text in the illustration reads: she was a bloody monster in a human suit! she was a monster the moment you resurrected her, and you went ahead and made her worse. ALT

How would you have asked Alecto the First to lie—how would you have persuaded that mad monster into even an unsophisticated con?