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I thought it would be fun to do some extra content for my Tumblr gang, starting with some title meanings, not in any particular order.

Spoilers ahead up to chapter 21 so read at your own risk!

In the notorious Chapter 12: There’s no I in team, but there is jazz, the "there's no I in team" refers to Frost/reader no longer being a part of the team, as in "I, Frost, am no longer in the team", while the "but there is jazz" part is foreshadowing the forever controversial intro to Jazz being a new addition to the team.

In Chapter 18: A mission of grave importance, the title symbolizes a mission that is going to be of significant/big (aka grave) importance because it is where Graves is introduced back into the story. The use of the word "grave" is deliberate, foreshadowing Graves' return.

In Chapter 15: Life is a matter of choice. So is death is a reference to a key moment in the chapter where Frost is forced to make a choice between staying on her side of the ledge, admittedly choosing her very likely death and letting Ghost save himself or jumping and risking both of them dying but also both of them surviving.

In Chapter 19: Stay Frosty, the title is a known military term that means to "be alert and ready for action, without letting one's fear or other emotions get in the way." I had fun with capitalizing the word for obvious reasons. The title refers to Frost's internal freak-out once she learns she will be joined on a mission by Soap and Ghost where she would have to put her emotions aside despite the nature of the mission and events that happened days before. We all know how that went...

In Chapter 21: When the music stops playing and regrets become loud, the part "when the music stops playing" is a metaphor for Jazz's death, since her call sign is related to music. Once music stops playing, well, Jazz stops... breathing (sorry lol). The other part refers to an ongoing theme of regret throughout the whole chapter, especially in the beginning where another upcoming regret is foreshadowed through Frost's past experiences. I also mentioned this theme in Chapter 19 where Frost briefly talks to Jazz about regrets which is another slight foreshadow of what's to come.

In Chapter 10, Out of the frying pan and into the fire, an idiom is used to describe an already tense and difficult situation for Frost becoming worse once Valeria is introduced as Carmen's girlfriend.

In Chapter 17: Dream a little dream of me, the title foreshadows Ghost's dream that happens at the end of the chapter. It is also a reference to the famous song of the same name.