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[dyed-indigo]

idk what it was that possessed me to draw this but whatever it was i had to fucking pry myself away from this drawing repeatedly to force myself to take breaks. what

[violetren]

Blood of the Basilisk Chapter 24

I did not breathe for the entirety of the first paragraph waiting for the teleportation spell to go through.

The second it did though I heaved a big sigh of relief and then laughed a little as I realised half the Grimmani agency was about to have a very stressful day at work thanks to both Kota's entrance and the information she had uncovered.

I'm glad Pyter is staying with Nadani, because given that they are up against a cult I am suspicious of literally everyone that isn't an established ally that Pyter has been chill around. This may have more to do with my ttrpg experiences and expectations of cults than anything the text has promoted. Gharol seems fine. Probably. Just glad Pyter is staying.

It's also probably good for him to be there to help Nadani deal with her shock too. Girl needs some love after being taking a life for the first time.

This Mayor's aide Yenara. I am happily following all of the narrative cues to not like her. I mean come on. Norga barely bit out the scripted pleasantries. Norga might not strike me as a social butterfly but she's a professional, a fixer if not an outright trouble shooter, she knows how to play the game and she doesn't fucking wanna for Yenara. Conclusion, Yenara is a bitch.

Lemme guess. In classic mayor fashion the mayor is worried about his upcoming re-election campaign? Or given how accessible he wanted that gate to be, the mayors office is in on the cult bullshit.

Poor Thilde getting thrown from bullshit city micromanaging bureaucracy to Kota without so much as a biscuit in between.

I swear to the gods I am so fucking close to getting a cork board and red string over this pendulum. What's the connect with the toffee jar lid? Why have they got the same patterns. Does Thilde just know a really cool smith? Do she and Pyter just share an aesthetic taste? How fucking wild would it be if that were true and Molly was just trolling by bringing the pendulum and its designs up to make folks think it was important. It's not generally how stories work, and I wouldn't call that particular kind of subversion Molly's style, but it would be funny in how rabid I would get over it.

My theory is that the keystone portal magic and probably some blood magic type shenanigans are what the cult intend to use to open a gate for their master to return to the world. I mean you have a magical artifact that connects places and a guy in a place he doesn't want to be. Doesn't feel like rocket science even if the magic would probably be complicated as hell trying to get spatial magic to reach somewhere that is probably outside of our reality.

I am very aware that Kota doesn't give a token "she's not my woman" protest at the end of this conversation. Not because she thinks she has any claim to Nadani, but because she knows she has fallen for Nadani and cares as much as the implication that Nadani is hers implies.