MesmeroPants

We saw that records of spirit fatalities are kept, and that they play a large role in determining a magician’s possible roster of servants. These records also seem to cross cultural borders and have persisted across generations. It seems likely to me that Bartimaeus would have been recorded as dying in the glass palace. Granted, there are hints that shamanistic summoning rituals may bypass these conventions; though it seems like those practices have become scarce by the time of the trilogy.

A bit tragic, but also somewhat of a reward.

super shoddy and incomprehensible draft sketches while I work

The Nouda/Makepeace debacle has inspired me to try some body horror. The way Stroud writes the final few chapters, it seems like Nouda is most likely just a big eldritch mess, but I like to imagine that Makepeace’s skin is still stretched taut over the beast in a grotesque parody of the chipper playwright.

With Nouda bearing down on him, the glass palace crumbling, and the smell of detonations still fresh in the air, did Nathaniel think of the Underwoods? Did he remember his childhood burning away while another demon lunged for him? Did he think of Ms. Underwood dying for the petulance of a boy she loved?

Did he make his sacrifice and see the death he had avoided before?

Only years ago, and yet a lifetime apart.