#harrow and the ghosts BELIEVE that it being locked and hidden is why theyre safe there
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You know for as much as the locked tomb is about what we leave behind when we die, in literal and metaphysical and metaphorical terms, it fucks me up really bad how every boe member on new rho thinks of Pyrrha as nothing but the person who killed Wake and regards her grief and heartbreak as some kind of sick perversion because obviously their glorious leader would never have felt anything but hatred and revulsion for a zombie. Pyrrha doesn't even really bother to correct them, she seems to think they must be right. Commander Wake exists in everyone's memory as cold and hard and righteous and utterly devoted to her cause. Pyrrha loved her, but Pyrrha also seems to think of herself as someone doomed to fall in love with people who will never love her as much as they love self-sacrifice. But we as the audience get to see a layer beyond that, we get to see the parts of her that are too contradictory to make it into the legend, we know Harrowhark is alive because Wake even in her most monstrous and rage-filled aspect could not bring herself to intrude on a place where Pyrrha had once lived and worked and felt safe.
#like i think the book is trying to offer up a red Herring explanation that they're safe in the study because its hidden#that because harrow felt safe there its also safe in this version of canaan house#but that doesn't actually hold up to scrutiny#because cytherea killed jeannemary there. it wasnt actually protected.#harrow and the ghosts BELIEVE that it being locked and hidden is why theyre safe there#but thats because they have literally no shot in hell of knowing that the ghost hunting them was in love with the people who lived there#wake loses in the bubble because she couldnt bring herself to break into the room where Pyrrha probably died#anyways#commander wake#tlt spoilers#harrow the ninth#htn#and nobody knows!!!! nobody knows wake loved pyrrha back!!!! gahhhh!!!!!!!
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