fresh hell

“The other day I threw up 25 butterflies And they all said your name, imagine, I was shoked That’s what happens when you drink before breakfast” -Tutank’mon by Alan Sutton y las criaturas de la ansiedad

Rough translation of a very good song from my trc playlist.

Text-less version under the cut because I didn't know which one to choose:

Maura, Calla, Persephone; strange three headed entity, with a silent language all to their own. They've been in this together since the beginning. They've been together so long, that its hard to see clearly, think clearly, on their own.

Persephone: enigmatic, far-away, unknowable; the sort of psychic different to all the rest, the kind you can't understand but love anyway. Quietly ready to give everything for her friends. The strange one.

Calla: blunt, fierce, loyal; the ability to understand the link between an object and its owner on a fundamental, extra-knowing way. Untempered by kindness, but kind anyway. Solid and reliable, sneering and judgemental. A good friend to have.

Maura: Idealistic, tiebreaker, action-seeker. The one who makes sense of the other two, the axis through which all other women in the house are conncted. The one clinging to the past even as she summons the future, who puts things into motion, the one who makes things okay again. The leader.

Gwenllian: wild, eccentric, free; she came in late, the mirror who sees too clearly. She fits in this place, but she cannot replace the others. Too strange for the outside world, but too mortal for her home. She is passionately herself, leaves in her veins and stars in her eyes. A mirror into the soul.

In order: Adam, Ronan, Gansey, Blue.

And the part that fucks me up:

Blue came into the picture after the once-dead-boy had been foretold to die again. Gwen came into the picture after Maura vanished, when it was uncertain she'd come back home.

Adam had a vision of himself killing Gansey, a prophecy that's haunted him for months, but didn't quite come true. Persephone died (killed herself) scrying (another type of vision) to find Maura (there wasn't a guarantee it would kill her).

Calla endured her best friend vanishing (when she told her not to); she endured her other best friend dying when she knew better. Ronan was the last to know Gansey would die (he knew anyway). Calla was alone in the knowing; Ronan was alone in ignorance.

Maura came back; gansey didn't (until he did).

Persephone is dead, Adam is not (his forest is gone)