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Of course that’s not the case, but you can sense the pang of regret in her voice almost as if she hates herself as much as the Mongols for becoming so content and not avenging her de facto mother yet. 🥹 Fatima would be so proud of her for just hanging on this long.

They are similar in the way they value knowledge and hold it in such high regards but that makes the tension between all the more interesting. Sorghaghtani ultimately has noble goals for the knowledge and she clearly values the cultures that brought it to her. We know that because because she talks about how they tracked stars and measured the size of the earth, she’s clearly done her homework. Which makes it all the more powerful that there is no way she doesn’t know this book didn’t come into her possession peacefully, she understands that the mongols would raid those people to get the book for her and was still willing to send her husband out to get it. That huger for knowledge and willingness to chase after what you want is something Sitara can absolutely understand which makes even more fascinating that Sitara loathes her. And that makes the forced, “I admire your mind,” even more powerful. I could see them getting along swimmingly if they had met under different circumstances but alas they cannot.

Essence by Vanity Tintype.