Well, this is chapter 245 now apparently
Debateable in some ways; they are an unchecked law enforcement. But I think, still, its not what she asked him, but that she was vague about how she found out. His oaths protect Red Guard secrets, and this isn’t, in fact, a secret. He’s mistaken to believe it is.
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I wonder if he’ll ever realize she was casting with a backup conduit.
He’s like: “She was casting at a disadvantage on the back of her finger,” then it’s “what happened? The real conduit on her back broke?! It was just a sapphire with less than 1000 thaum capacity?!”
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Honestly, her recovery from breaking all these conduits is really impressive. I swear if she were a regular university student she would have been dead several times over from her constant disregard for her own limits (admittedly, this happens when she’s under extreme stress, but still).
I’m just waiting for her to be back in class, casting against someone like Nunchkin and shattering the conduit Lacer gave her and being like, “oops, damn, how am I going to pay for that?” while everyone around her freaks out and tries to drag her off to the infirmary.
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Alright, I might be heading deep into tinfoil territory but…
I’m increasingly convinced that the thing in her head might be Myrddin’s reflection.
It’s powerful, knowledgeable, and I suspect old as well. It has left the mark of its passing in the spirit world strongly enough that it can return to those paths. It’s deeply scared of what will happen if she dies or if it’s separated from her. It’s damaged - fracturing apart and having to reform when it stands on its own. That lack of a fixed form, the androgyny, the constant shifting.
And…it might be why she was able to get the amulet out of the book if it was briefly enough to fool the book into thinking Myrddin was there.
It just…I know, I know, the chapter title is the Grave and the Womb and it makes it more plausible that it might be her mother. I’ve got plenty of evidence that it might be her mother. But there’s something awfully compelling about it being Myrddin’s reflection instead. A kind of terrible, horrible sense.
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Has anyone considered her mental passenger seems more like a spirit world figure (based on how those books described them as not grounded, capable of lying and seeking stability through a human etc) and also seems the description during the walk through the spirit world and how the entity had wird body shape etc and how the body shifted etc …sounds like that Brillig description…?
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Why does everyone hate Lacer after all of this?
“This will be our little secret.” (dont have the chapter open so I might not have the exact wording)
Those aren’t the words of a good guy. Those are the words of a rapist, or a child molester.
I don’t give a fuck how tragic Lacer’s backstory is, if hes still perpetuating the cycle rather than trying to break it.
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