they were all gods

TALE OF THE NINE TAILED (2020), SCRIPT BY HAN WOO-RI // THE WINNER’S TRILOGY (2014-2016), BY MARIE RUTKOSKI

      — the winner’s trilogy reimagined as netflix movies 

Kestrel looked away from Arin. She swore to herself that she would never look back.

“Isn’t that what stories do, make real things fake, and fake things real?” 

“Kestrel felt a slow, slight throb, a shimmer in the blood. She knew it well. Her worst trait. Her best trait. The desire to come out on top, to set her opponent under her thumb. A streak of pride. Her mind ringed with hungry rows of foxlike teeth.”

She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream. “Don’t wake up,” he said. (insp.)

The snow fell on her, it fell on him, but Kestrel knew that no single flake could ever touch them both. She didn’t look back when he spoke again. “You don’t, Kestrel, even though the god of lies loves you.”

She remembered her letter confessing every thing to Arin. I am the Moth. I am your country’s spy, she’d written. I have wanted to tell you this for so long.

They were never meant to be together. As a general’s daughter, seventeen-year-old Kestrel enjoys an extravagant and privileged life. Arin has nothing but the clothes on his back. Then Kestrel makes an impulsive decision that binds Arin to her. Though they try to fight it, they can’t help but fall in love. In order to be together, they must betray their people … but to be loyal to their country, they must betray each other. Set in a new world, The Winner’s Curse is a story of rebellion, duels, ballroom dances, wicked rumors, dirty secrets, and games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.

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2705; Picking Oranges

She said, “I’m going to miss you when you when I wake up.” “Don’t wake up,” he answered. But he did. Kestrel, beside him on the grass, said. “Did I wake you? I didn’t mean to.” It took him a velvety moment to understand that this was real. The air was quiet. An insect beat it’s clear wings. She brushed hair from his brow. Now he was very awake. “You were sleeping so sweetly,” she said.

“Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”

from “Winter”

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