Lightning

Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.

No, little brother. No one is stronger. You’ve cheated death too many times. Greed may do your bidding, but death serves no man.

knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. “you came for me.” he beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero.

Medusa, sure you've heard of her.

He smiled, and his face was like the sun. | |

THE ORIGINAL TRIO + name meanings (new trio)

No mourners. No funerals. Among them, it passed for ‘good luck.

“You still may die in the Dregs.“ Inej’s dark eyes had glinted. “I may. But I’ll die on my feet with a knife in my hand.”

↳ there are no bargains between lion and men. i will kill you and eat you raw.

and then there are the ones who stay awake, running through the trick again and again, looking for that skip in perception, the crack in the illusion that will explain how their eyes got duped; they’re the kind who won’t rest until they’ve mastered that little bit of mystery for themselves. i’m that kind.

S I X  O F  C R O W S

- Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

The dread pirate Zoya Nazyalensky for @wafflesandkruge

“break his heart cruelly. i will gladly give our poor prince comfort, and i would make a magnificent queen.”

“Getting a second life is one thing. Making a better life, that's the trick.”

She would r i s e.

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