#tridentaricest

"So Harrow is debatably in love with two women, neither of which are Ianthe. As of when these two start interacting more, both of the other women are dead (or close enough, this is a series about necromancy). Ianthe has spent her whole life being second behind her much hotter twin sister, but their relationship is a whole different can of worms. So when Harrow, grieving one of those deaths, asks Ianthe to lobotomise her, Ianthe does it willingly, enthusiastically even. The first thing Harrow does after becoming lucid is kiss Ianthe with tongue (to check what's going on in her mouth, but Ianthe doesn't know that). Then she shuns Ianthe’s repeated advances, telling her that her heart is within the locked tomb (she’s talking about the corpse in there but Ianthe doesn’t know that), until we reach the closest thing the series has to a sex scene, where Harrow finds Ianthe trying to cut off one of her arms (a replacement for one that got torn off), so she straddles her, cuts it off properly, and grows her a new one out of just bones. Ianthe has it gilded. Also Harrow shaves her head regularly because of the bone cult she grew up in, and Ianthe messes with her follicles while she’s asleep to make her hair grow faster. Just for fun. So that’s another thing that makes Harrow question herself more during the time post-lobotomy. At one point the corpse of a woman she killed is under her bed and Ianthe keeps saying she doesn’t see anything. Harrow is also pretty much the first person to pay attention to Ianthe instead of her much hotter twin sister, but that’s a whole separate thing."