#characters are injured and it has consequences!!!

[cutter-kirby]

i think a horrifying scene in tuc that i never really see talked about is in book 5 after gregor gets his ribs displaced by the bane. he's left in the high hall and curls up next to a pot because everyone is running around and being carried in to the palace (after the city gets invaded) so he can't get help. he just sits there and it's honestly terrifying because he can't even inhale properly and he thinks he's going to die before howard rushes in and saves him by painfully and viscerally forcing him to breathe and it's just. scary. i really appreciate that suzanne collins lets her characters be injured so brutally because i feel like that's not usually in books like these, especially not the main character.