#chapter 29

It hasn't happened yet but it was mentioned in the following thresher chapter. (Chapter 29)

Ch 29 opens with auklet looking at the moon, showing that the new moon hasn't come yet but is approaching soon.

And the whole chapter is Auklet heavy, because it is dwelling on his guilt of the upcoming horror.

and the chapter ends with auklet allowing thresher to eat poisoned food with the hope it kills him before the new moon gets here.

OBSESSED with your latest chapter @skies-for-eyes-trees-for-knees !! 😍😍🔥🔥🌹🌹 Just had to make a fan sketch of your forked tongue Eris, I love him so much abgdgsg here's the linky yall

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62617405/chapters/205418661 (Who Will Hold Me?)

It is interesting to think about Joker and Beast's interactions this way, by literally reading Joker as "Ciel" (words in blue), and Beast as "Sebastian" (words in red):

"Sebastian" (represented by Beast) wants them to change course. And seems almost desperate about it. "Ciel" (represented by Joker) is surprised and does not seem to take "Sebastian's"/Beast's emotions seriously.

"Sebastian"/Beast no longer wants to see "Ciel"/Joker in pain. But "Ciel"/Joker is stubborn and dismissive, which devastates "Sebastian"/Beast.

Uncross Our Stars | Chapter 29

It gets to me on a delay, like I'm feeling in slow motion. The boy has sprinted down the street by the time it hits me. I watch the back of his head as he bounces up to a woman down the road, repeating his news, and turn to Peeta whose face is glowing with enough optimism for both of us. Bruised and injured but still so clear eyed, so hopeful. My dandelion after a long deadly winter, pushing up through the earth, yellow and nourishing. Free. He scoops me up before I can cry or say something stupid, and spins me around in his arms while I laugh and cling to his neck. I squeeze my eyes shut and feel the sun on my face, red behind my eyelids, spiraling around me until Peeta puts me back down. He shouldn't be exerting himself. He's still very hurt. But he tells me he's okay and then lets me take him inside and doctor his wounds some more.

If the star crossed lovers from district 12 never went into the games, if they were never pitted against each other, doomed to fight and kill each other, if their stars weren’t crossed at all, what would have happened anyway?

“Before them lay Mistawis, like a scene out of some fairy tale of old time.”

Valancy was forbidden to read novels, but evidently she was not forbidden to read fairy tales or Shakespeare. Which might have been a weird sort of blessing in disguise - her imagination did not get prosaic as she aged.

“Supper was the meal Valancy liked best. The faint laughter of winds was always about them and the colours of Mistawis, imperial and spiritual, under the changing clouds were something that cannot be expressed in mere words. Shadows, too. Clustering in the pines until a wind shook them out and pursued them over Mistawis. They lay all day along the shores, threaded by ferns and wild blossoms. They stole around the headlands in the glow of the sunset, until twilight wove them all into one great web of dusk.”

I like this summer holiday vibe.

“How sweet it was to sit there and do nothing in the beautiful silence, with Barney at the other side of the table, smoking!”

This book almost makes you want to be in a romantic relationship with a man!!

“Music would drift to them alluringly from boats here and there, or from the verandahs on the big house of the millionaire on the biggest island.

“Would you like a house like that, Moonlight?” Barney asked once, waving his hand at it.”

Montgomery is finally starting to lay down some clues about Barney’s second secret identity.

“He had taken to calling her Moonlight, and Valancy loved it.”

This Moonlight nickname thing was also sneered at by the literary critics for being too cheesy and sentimental. I mean, it is cheesy I guess, but I don’t find it particularly unrealistic. People get goofy when they are in love, especially in the first months of a relationship. And I like it, I don’t care.

“Away down at the far end of the lake they got every night a glimpse of a big, continental train rushing through a clearing.”

The pieces are being laid for the climax of the novel…

Also this will be the railway Valancy’s father worked on in his youth in my fanfic Wu’s.

“So many hours a day Barney shut himself up in Bluebeard’s Chamber. Valancy never saw the inside of it. From the smells that filtered through at times she concluded he must be conducting chemical experiments—or counterfeiting money.”

What are those smells though? Ink?

“There is no such thing as freedom on earth,” he said. “Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. You think you are free now because you’ve escaped from a peculiarly unbearable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me—that’s a bondage.”

I love this quote.

I also must say that I observed a tendency in everyone to view Barney simply as a Prince Charming/Giant Teddy Bear/Reward For Valancy. He indeed is quite a decent guy, but I think he is more cynical and “convincing as a man” than we sometimes give him credit for.

“Who said or wrote that ‘the prison unto which we doom ourselves no prison is’?” asked Valancy dreamily, clinging to his arm as they climbed up the rock steps.”

It is apparently from a poem of Wordsworth.

“Ah, now you have it,” said Barney. “That’s all the freedom we can hope for—the freedom to choose our prison.”

The central thesis of all romance novels voiced out. And I love it. This book is intelligent.

“But, Moonlight,”—he stopped at the door of the Blue Castle and looked about him—at the glorious lake, the great, shadowy woods, the bonfires, the twinkling lights—“Moonlight, I’m glad to be home again. When I came down through the woods and saw my home lights—mine—gleaming out under the old pines—something I’d never seen before—oh, girl, I was glad—glad!”