i cant stop thinking abt everything cytherea could have known. based on mercy’s assertion, we can assume she immediatly connected the dots with Gideon being the child of Jod and his myriad old lie. we know based on lyctoral abilities that she’d know on sight that coronabeth was not a necromancer. bc of those same abilities, im 100% convinced she knew that harrow was 200 dead children in a trenchcoat – im convinced she knew on sight what even mercy and augustine and g1deon and john couldn’t truly figure out, because by the time they met harrow, harrow had become a black hole to them. any other secret of the houses she probably could have figure out, if she like, cared to

and what did she do with this power and knowledge? fucked around and laid around and flirted aggressively. commited a little light murder and property damage to keep her con going. and im not convinced she killed the fouth but god. like until palamades confronted her she was just….. hanging out. she sealed off that one door but she could have destroyed all the contents. she could have sabotaged the keys. she could have done way more and instead she chose to hang out. im imagining her rediscovering and rereading the books she left there a myriad ago. processing her grief over loveday with her newknowledge that it was unnecessary. making a little ninth war crime feel very jealous and a little ninth cavalier feel very confused and flustered. i want to put her under a microscope.