Lee

okay so spoiler free here we go

- what the actual hell leigh bardugo. what the hell. why would you have me gasping and crying and pacing outside a random coffee shop like that.

- the investigators are hilarious

- love the art. @ekbelsher you can have my firstborn child if you want tbh

- the crows are more found family in this than I ever dreamed possible

- THE KANEJ OF IT ALL. THEY STAY WINNING FOREVER AND EVER.

ok now spoilers ahead!!!

Where a Suli caravan decided to camp and perform at somewhere near a farm.

Kaz Rietveld, 17 year old, went to the performance with his older brother and their father.

The girl from the Suli family met eyes with him as she was flying from one hoop to another.

Half a second. Merely a heartbeat. But he's certain he saw a smile, she even laughed a little.

It's clear as daylight that this farm boy has never seen a trapeze before.

Inej would think to herself. Trying to explain why she'd smile at a random boy in the crowd.

Yet it felt natural. It felt familiar.

Almost like they had found eachother, in a lifetime before.

going a little feral over the way that the "secret messages" between kaz and inej in the letters kind of parallel lines from the duology.

With "I"ll return to Ketterdam and to you," Inej is telling Kaz directly that she is coming home to HIM, just like how in ch. 44 of crooked kingdom, she tells him that she's not done with Ketterdam and that it's worth saving, more subtly implying things under the surface about him that we only read in her narration.

"Wait for you by the window always," as this promise that he will always be there waiting for her, paralleling his promise to always come for her.

"Trust me to protect you," as a much improved vow to protect her, rather than calling her an investment.