HTN SPOILERS/NTN SPOILERS
This post should help anyone whose confused at the end of Harrow the Ninth, who went where and how- but if you haven’t read Harrow or Nona SPOILERS.
I absolutely adore how Harrow the Ninth ends- probably because i LOVE Nona’s story so incredibly much and the set up between the two books is fucking EPIC.
We know Alecto soul comes for Harrow’s body as Harrows body sans Harrows soul is drowning in the river from the pressure of the stoma closing, expelling Gideon’s soul in the process:
Ianthe has just saved Jod from the jaws of hell- and while we dont have the perspective of how this happens— Gideons soul doesn’t go into her dead body to become Kiriona until Jod takes Gideons body back from BOE — but it can be assumed that Jod captures Gideons soul at this point for a later princely art project.
Now, the reason I wrote this post: I realized on this re-read that as Harrow settles her soul into Alecto’s sword within The Tomb we get the beginning of the dream/awake sequences that Nona/Alecto experiences as Harrow’s memories and Harrow experiences as Alecto’s memories in the river with John after he causes the apocalypse.
And it all gets going with THIS quote:
“Faraway in a land she had never travelled, Harrowhark Nonagesimus fell asleep, or dropped dead, or both.”
BECAUSE IT IS BOTH! Harrow’s body as Nona is sleeping, but her soul within Alecto’s sword in the tomb is not alive, she’s become a revenant.
Then @tazmuir gives us the epilogue banger at the end of HTN that opens into Nona’s life on New Rho.
Killing this post off with our favourite pool scene, with the promise that Harrow made Gideon swear to return to the tomb if Harrow ever died. AND SHE DOES IN NONA 😭 AAAAAAHHHHH! 💀🗡️
Gideon the loyal as ever gorgeous bitch she is goes back to protect Harrow in the tomb.
⚔️ 💀 Get in line thou big slut… 💀 ⚔️
