#something something rue and blood and water something something her relationship with her humanity

[fate-defiant]

something something rue who's been fed and sustained on blood since she was a baby something something two notable times we see her attempt to nurture her loved ones it's by offering them water

[marinsawakening]

Late Enough to Rest

Fandom: Princess Tutu

Wordcount: 2153

Summary: Alternate Universe. Superhero Ahiru finds supervillain Rue on her doorstep in the middle of the night, hurt, holding an unconscious Mytho and asking for help.

Notes: Written for @ahirueweek day 2: superpower. Relationship can be platonic or pre-romantic, depending on your interpretation. Read here on AO3

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The last thing she expected to find on her doorstep at 3 AM was - well, anything, it was 3 AM, the only reason Ahiru herself hadn't gone to bed yet was because she apparently made terrible life choices. But definitely the very last thing she expected to find on her doorstep was Rue.

But there she was, leaning heavily against the wall, sopping wet locks of hair clinging to her forehead, her clothes so tattered that Ahiru couldn't even guess whether they used to be her Princess Kreahe costume or not. And hanging in her arms was Mytho, eerily still.

"Please -" she started, but Ahiru was quicker.

"Rue!" she yelled, throwing the door open as wide as possible. "You - Mytho - are you hurt? Is Mytho alright?"

"We need to come in," Rue said, her voice tense. Her fingers dug into Mytho's side. "Quickly, before anyone sees us."

Despite this, when Ahiru stepped aside, Rue just stared at her.

"Come in," Ahiru urged, and finally, Rue moved inside, out of the rain. It was only then that Ahiru noticed the trail of blood she left behind.

"You are hurt," she accused. "Sit down, I'll get the bandages -"

"It's nothing," Rue cut her off. She lay Mytho on the couch and sagged next to him on the floor. Inside, Ahiru could get a better look at her. Blood gushed from wounds all over her body; thankfully, most of them were probably just shallow scrapes, but there was a large gash in her thigh that might need stitches, and from the way she was holding her chest, there was a good chance something wrong with her ribs as well. "Listen -"

"Don't move," Ahiru ordered, running to the kitchen. She pulled the med kit from under the sink and ran back. Rue startled as she knelt next to her.

"Clothes off."

"I'm sorry, what?" Rue asked, incredulous.

"I need to reach your wounds." From up close, it was clear that she was wearing civilian clothes, a black shirt and pants, tactical, good for running.

"It doesn't matter," Rue snapped. "Listen, I have information -"

"I'm not listening to anything until we've taken care of your wounds."

Rue groaned. "Ahiru, we don't have time for this -"

"Is anyone going to die within an hour?"

"No, but -"

"Two hours?"

"I don't see how that -"

"Then we have time to disinfect, stitch, and bandage some gashes."

"Who even cares!"

"I do!"

Rue glared at her. Ahiru crossed her arms and didn't move an inch.

Finally, Rue sighed and gingerly pulled off the leftovers of her shirt. "You're still as stubborn as ever, aren't you?"

"Yup," Ahiru said, in a cheerful tone that quickly morphed into a horrified gasp.

Bruises climbed up Rue's torso like vines, covering her side and ribs, sneaking up into her sports bra and down to her thigh. Without thinking, Ahiru reached out a hand to touch, before remembering why that would be a terrible, awful, no good idea, and snatching it away.

"Are your ribs..."

"They're fine."

Ahiru stared at Rue until she turned her head.

"They're not broken," she said, reluctantly. "They don't hurt enough for that. Bruised, probably. Maybe fractured."

Ahiru took a deep breath. "Alright," she said. "We're taking you to the hospital for an x-ray tomorrow."

"No hospitals," Rue snapped.

"I can't just let you walk around with fractured ribs!"

"No. Hospitals." When Ahiru opened her mouth to protest, Rue cut her off. "My - the Raven knows I'm hurt. He'll be keeping an eye on them. The risk is too great."

That's - fine.

"Okay," Ahiru agreed reluctantly, "no hospitals. But promise me you'll take it easy, at least for a while, alright?"

Which was a normal question! But Rue stared at her like she'd just announced she was marrying the Raven."Why do you even care?"

Ahiru blinked. " 'Cause you're my friend, of course."

Rue just kept staring at her. "I've been trying to kill you for the past three months."

She shrugged. "Friends make bad choices, sometimes. Doesn't mean they're not your friends anymore. Now take your pants off, I need to reach your thighs."

For a solid few seconds, Rue didn't move. Then, she burst out laughing.

"You're one of a kind, aren't you?" she muttered, and it seemed almost bitter.

Ahiru didn't know how to respond to that, so she didn't, setting out to clean her wounds instead. Luckily, she'd been right, and most of them were shallow. Only the one on her thigh required stitches.

"There!" She clapped her hands together, triumphantly. "All done. I'll get some ice for your ribs. Lay down on my bed in the meantime."

Rue sputtered. "I can't just - I can't just take your bed!"

Ahiru waved her off. "It's fine, it's fine. I can sleep on the floor no problem."

"It's indecent!" she protested, and it would've been beyond weird, a supervillain on her floor protesting that taking the bed would be impolite, but it was Rue. Rue was just like that.

"You're the one who's hurt," Ahiru reasoned. "Please, Rue. Take the bed."

Rue blinked owlishly at her, before slowly getting up and walking to the bed. With a sigh of relief, Ahiru ducked out of the room.

Problem: there was no ice left. Fakir had even written a nice little reminder on the fridge door: buy ice, right there beneath the rest of her groceries. The whiteboard has been his idea too, actually; she'd forget less if she wrote down whatever she needed right after she ran out. It'd been a huge help, except for the fact that she still forgot to go to the store on a regular basis. Whoops.

Underneath the ice, there were more supplies in Fakir's handwriting; iodine, gauze, medical alcohol. The last fight had been rough, and Fakir had spent a good half hour just bandaging her wounds. It'd been worth it, though; Mytho had actually shown some awareness, right before he slashed her the third time, and the sword had only grazed her. He'd even opened his mouth to say something, before it turned into an ugly sneer again. Stuff like that was getting rarer and rarer, and even Fakir couldn't bring himself to lecture her too much, after she told him.

And now Mytho was on her couch, offline, and Rue seemed like she'd split off from the Raven and - and she needed ice for her bruised-or-fractured ribs that they couldn't take to the hospital because the Raven would be watching them.

Ahiru took a deep breath, and managed to unearth some frozen peas from the back of her freezer.

Rue had settled in on her bed, in the same way a stray kitten would settle into a dog pound. Aside from her fingers playing with a stray piece of fabric from her leftover-pants, she lay completely still, stiff as a board and with her arms tucked in as close to her body as possible. She and Mr. Fuzzles seemed engaged in a staring contest, and it didn't look like Rue was winning.

"Mr. Fuzzles doesn't bite, you know," she said, plopping the peas down onto Rue's chest. Thankfully, Rue didn't protest the treatment anymore, and simply moved them down towards her bruises.

"I know that," she snapped. "Why do you have a stuffed animal? You're seventeen."

"What, don't you have any?" She moved Mr. Fuzzles so that his head rested in Rue's armpit. "They're fuzzy!"

"Father would never have allowed me to cling to such childish nonsense," she sniffed haughtily. But even though she glared at the teddybear, she made no move to throw him off. Maybe because that would throw the peas off too.

"Well, your father is a supervillain, so I think that might just be part of all the evil."

Rue opened her mouth, then snapped it close again. "I... suppose it is soft."

"Exactly!" Ahiru grabbed a chair. "I'll get you one too, later."

"You really don't have to do that."

"But I want to."

"Ahiru, if we don't deal with Drosselmeyer, there might not be a later." Rue hit her fist against the bed. It couldn't hide the shaking in her hands.

"Drosselmeyer?" Without even thinking about it, she touched her pendant. "Shouldn't we be taking down the Raven?"

Rue started taking a deep breath, before letting it out again with a painful wheeze. "How much do you know about Drosselmeyer?"

"I - I've only met him a few times." She remember him appearing above her lake, hovering over the water like a ghost, gifting her the pendant, a chance at humanity. A chance to help Mytho.

Rue's head snapped towards her. "You've met him?"

"Only a few times! Can count them on one hand, really." His smile was creepy, and his ability to stop time even more so, and he seemed to delight in other people's misery just a bit too much, but even so, he didn't seem - well, Raven-level capital 'E' Evil.

"That - makes things easier, I suppose." Rue blew out a breath. It seemed exhaling was easier than inhaling. "Drosselmeyer is the writer of the story."

"The Prince and the Raven, right? Where Mytho's from?"

She remembered him, that day on the lake, smiling down at her with a grin too wide for his face.

"So you love that boy, huh?" he'd asked her. She could only nod. She'd been just a duck, after all.

"Would you still love him if I told you he wasn't human?"

"It was one of the many plays he wrote, although the only one he left unfinished," Rue confirmed. "It seems he wants to finish it, now."

"Would you still love him if he was just a robot, made to perform?"

"Mytho tore his own heart apart to keep the story from continuing; with him defective, the Raven couldn't properly fight him. But when you started to rebuild his heart -"

"Do you love him enough to search for his heart, so that he may feel again?"

"The story continued," Ahiru finished. Her nails were digging into her arms. "Then - this fight. It's my fault."

"If it hadn't been you, it would've been someone else," Rue said, but Ahiru barely listened.

"He said that only I would accept being Princess Tutu. That I'm the only one who -"

"And the Raven told me I was an android built by him," Rue interrupted. Ahiru startled.

"What? But you bleed."

"Exactly." Rue's hand was clenched and white-knuckled. White-knuckled from a lack of blood, which androids didn't have. "He lied. Men like him and Drosselmeyer will say whatever they need to, in order to get you to do what they want."

And Ahiru - Ahiru was still shaking, but she took a deep breath, and suppressed her fear. For Rue. Rue needed her to be calm. "I'm sorry."

"I told you, it's not your fault -"

"I'm sorry about the Raven," she clarified. "That's the reason you were helping him, right? I'm sorry. He shouldn't have treated you that way."

And Rue just... stared. She just stared, until tears started to stream across her face.

"Rue..." Ahiru reached out a hand, but Rue was faster, wiping away the tears as quickly as they appeared.

"I'm sorry," she said, and she sounded choked up. "I don't - I don't know what came over me."

"It's okay." Hesitantly, she laid her hand on Rue's head, and when Rue didn't try to stop her, she stroked her fingers through her hair. Her hands were still shaking, a little bit, but as she continued, they stilled. As Princess Tutu, she'd done this dozens of times before, for dozens of people, and there was something comforting about the familiar movements.  

"I don't know exactly what you've been through," she started, and without even noticing, she slipped into the familiar Princess Tutu cadence. "But it must've been horrible, having the Raven as a father, doing everything you could for him, even hurting Mytho, and finding out he never loved you to begin with. You've been through a lot, and you can cry about it."

"We don't - we don't have the time -" Rue choked out, but the tears kept coming faster than she could wipe them away.

Ahiru kept carding her fingers through Rue's hair, carefully working through the knots in her hair. Even as Rue's sobs increased, her whole body shaking, a certain tension slipped from her body underneath Ahiru's fingers. "It's okay," she repeated. "If nobody's going to do die in a few hours, we have the time."

And at that, Rue unraveled. It was like all the tears she'd kept in for weeks, months, maybe even years came spilling out in one giant storm. She wailed into her pillow, and all Ahiru could do was continue to stroke her head, the practiced motions just as much for Rue's sake as for her own.

A story was moving, the plot wrapping up, but even so, they could take a few sentences to rest.

[h0unds-of-h3ll]

I can’t remember, but i can’t forget

This was written because of baby Dean's leather jacket.

The boys x reader but the pairing is really Dean x reader. (Confusing, I know, but just read it.)

Dean's always wanted for this to happen, except what happens when he gets what desire in a not so perfect way he always dreamt of?

Viewers beware you’re in for a scare: with the amount of low fluff, high angst, and in the north west a sad sap story, Dean being self destructive, Sam just want to help, it’s low key ugly, and a couple of curse words, y/c/n: your child’s name.

A crisp, dry, solemn autumn evening in Texas. Where it was cold enough to wear a light jacket but not heavy enough to wear a coat. Sam told him not to, that he'll start to cook in the dark leather jacket that hung loosely from his broad shoulders as he carried a bag of what was deemed to be a leftover vampire. It was the same deed this time around as it always is, track the monster, and rid it of its doings. After so many years of doing the same thing, it became, well, boring. Exhausting even and for what no one knew of their work and what they sacrificed to save others, so why keep doing something that seems to never be solved. Dean ran his free hand through his fawn hair and it began to grow out again. He groaned he'd have to cut it short, never did favor it. Give the villain something to grab and have the upper hand, he had to learn that the hard way. He shivered at the memory of John giving him the shortest buzz ever. That wasn't the bad part, it was the fact that people thought he had cancer. Made him look weak, made people pity him for "god's path that led him there," and he hated that.

 Always will and always have, he would be damned if anything viewed him as such. Sam trudged his feet along behind him, as they walked to the lake where they were going to dispose of the bodies. He could perceive the rotting flesh, it was stronger than normal human flesh because of all the toxins they consumed in a human’s meat suit. He brought his jacket to his nose, sniffing in his cologne dreading it if he found any of the stench to seep its way onto him. He could hear Sam's snicker from how loud it was, Dean knew that he hated the sand and here they are ankle-deep in it. Knowing that the grains were going into his socks and the new boots that he bought not even a week prior. It made Sam whine in protest; "I told you we should've gone to the woods, it would have been much easier!" He could hear Sam's large presence looming over him as Sam shoved his flip-phone in Dean's face, the glow illuminating his face. 

"Not even one bar!" He shouted out into Dean's ear, an eye roll followed from Dean's barely noticeable green eyes. He wanted to hit him across the head and tell him to grow up, but he ruled against it needing to get the job done and go to the haystack of the comfort of the hotel's bed. He grew all too close to the ratty making your back worse mattress, more than he liked he hoped it would swallow him whole. 

The invigorating sea cut at his face nipping at him turning his tanned skin rue. The weight of the body bag was heavier than before, was he becoming tired and delicate, or was something messing with him as a joke? it wouldn't be the first time something like that would happen and surely not the last. His feet began to sink into the beige grains of sand and then he came to apprehend Sam was no longer with him but walking up the steep hill and up to Baby. He wanted to roar out and scold him for his cowardly actions. 

Yet, he can do this alone, hell, he has been doing it for years. He gained strength as he focused on the opaque body of water before him. It was only a few feet before he could drop them and dust his hands off, but then he saw a figure. At first, he guessed it to be a fish that came to shore. As his eyes adjusted to the night's glow of the moon, he soon learned that the thing was too big to be the fish that washed up here. It was human. A soaked head to toe human who had befallen to be unconscious, dead even, that was crude, he thought, but realistic. He took a much greater grip on the sacks of shredded meat and made his way to the lapping coast.

 He shifted his weight and the sacks left him and made a splash catching him in the midst, his level of a calm facade was shattered. His fists turned redder than of a rose, from the blood rushing not knowing whether to go to his head or to the pressure. He remembered as a kid when he got so angry tears would fall and dad would grab him from the scruff of his collar and growl 'boys don't cry, sonny, what're you, a sissy?!' to say the relationship was complicated was an understatement. 

He would have fought him if he wasn't a child and if he wasn't his dad. His eyes began to wander which led him to think again. What even is it? Is it even alive? Who or what is it? The inquiries weighed heavily on what would happen if he helped it. Going against logic he went with his gut and stalked towards its laying heap. When he neared close enough his eyes widened and his brows furrowed. It was a lady.

Her skin was drowned in the water, her face was oddly beautiful with the droplets that ran into her parted lips, her hair was darkened from the water but looked as soft as a feather, two braids were laced in her hair. She had on a dark coat, a heavy one for blizzards, the jacket was similar to his. So much so that it was his. How? He still doesn't know the answer. 

She wore dark jeans that were darkened from the water they were matched along with some work boots. The water lapped at her skin, acting as if it was trying to bury her body in the sand. What the hell? who goes swimming in that getup? maybe it was something else. Maybe someone tried to kill her, he didn't want to acknowledge it but the lake was known for it. For the endless bodies at the bottom, the police years ago stopped trying to dig them up but rather scratching down a missing person as deceased. 

That's why he thought it would be a good idea to dispose of them here instead of the woods. His face was twisted trying to weigh out answers. How, why, and who cried at him. He jumped when he swore he had seen her eyes move behind the stretch of skin that hid them, his hand not trusting the intentions of the woman. His fingers were hooked around the hilt of the knife; the one that he always carried when things got hairy which they usually did. 

He staggered back onto the beach, his jeans dampening the sand, he'd have to get new boots. Another thing Sam was going to do is gloat about his "encyclopedic knowledge" Dean's breathing was shallow and fast as he tried to calm himself which was difficult because the lady's head turned towards him. She choked up water that swam in her lungs, her eyes wider than his as she leaned onto her side facing him and her voice croaked out a scratchy word which he later came to find out was. "one.."

He couldn't and would not ever go near that beach or any in his life ever again. 

He was sitting on the back of the wooden chair, the legs of it whined in pain from his weight. It was another hunt, of course. This one involves a woman who was scared out of her wits, she swore on her life she was being tracked and targeted by a paranormal being, the reason as to why she moved in the first place. Although, her story when she told it could have been anything but. 

His hands were laced behind his head, his long bowed legs tucked behind her petite dining table in her even smaller kitchen. It was a humble little house on the side of the complex, the house's white paint was decaying and in need of a severe job of remodeling. It's affordable and you get what you pay for, he can't talk since all he knows is a run-down motel on the exit of a highway. He listened to the woman's voice drone on, it was like a t.v. one of those that lost its signal and made the viewer's attention go lazy. The lady never stopped talking, her tangent was a black hole of having to get every single detail into her claim.

 He stared blankly at her as she talked, her face was freckled. Light golden dots scattered against her skin, long lashes touching the upper part of her skin. Her dark black hair fell behind her shoulders, it made her freckles shone from the way it made her face slim, she had bright eyes with a dark ring of maybe blue, green even. She was Dean's type, well, any type is his. 

Sam wished he'd grow out of playing with every girl he saw, get his heartbroken to the point where it limits him to become aware of the pain that he caused the women to have. Sam blamed it on Dad, going to another woman rather than to mom he knew about his father's unfaithfulness but never told Dean. It would break him. Dean always did want to be an exact mini replica of Dad, and so far, he's done perfectly. 

Dean wanted to kick Sam's broad shin under the burgundy-thin table since his interrogation continued. It was always the same queries Sam and him asked, never anything new, such as 'how was your day?' What's your phone number, can I stay the night?' he also wanted to tell her you're crazy, and you need to be checked in the looney bin, but his pointed pearly teeth nipped his tongue down. He nearly drooled at the fantasy of getting the hell out of there, and into the nearest dinner in the small run downtown. 

It was a ghost town, to be completely honest, he hadn't seen one thing that was alive, other than her. He faintly reminisces growing up in something similar. A sharp jolt of a shake ran through his shoulder, the chair fell with a thud as his weight fell with it, he turned his head and it snapped it to the side to find the culprit. Sam's face twisted into a perplexed one as Dean glared at his baby brother disturbing his flavored fantasy. He then fought the urge to start an argument, he became explosive and hot-headed more then he was before, maybe it was because of the endless cycle or him nearing thirty. 

A ghost-like touch ran through his spine as he shook Sam's hand off his shoulder where it was clasped, he was terrified at the thought of becoming old. But hey, once he became old he could retire from the never-ending cycle of pain and torture of always having the increasing anxiety over Sam. It grew as the days came to a close, where he seldomly got a refreshing night's sleep. 

He reasoned he should let the hope of having one good night's sleep go since it was simply a lost cause. The nightmares, the trauma sparking alive when he's alone on the most rigid mattress in the world. He jolts awake as soon as his body calms, a cold sweat coating his warm skin. "Layla asked if you wanted something to drink-" Sam's voice coped him through his train wreck of a mind, lulling him back to reality. Layla. The name ran it's coarse over his tongue as he mouthed it over and over, each syllable a word of their own. 

He later found that he didn't favor the name, it just didn't fit her face. He thought she looked more of a Casandra than anything. Sam's face held sincerity when his tree branch of an arm came to his "Work clothes" suit of a torso. Dean was acting odd, ever since the night of the "disposal" he wondered if something had happened to Dean that made him turn his head. Not many things can, so this was new. And new usually went one way. Horrendous. Dean had vowed to never wear a suit after Sam had, he knew from an awful mistake he once made. His face turned into a snicker and he got up from his chair, he needed fresh air. 

It seemed stale, bland, and suffocating. Reminded him of when he had to wait in the office after getting in trouble at school, having to spend the whole day there because Dad never came to pick him up. He felt out of place. Everyone's scowl would fall onto him a hushed whisper talking about how he'd never become anything. He headed outside before he stopped and pivoted to where they were calmly watching his outburst of absence. 

It was rude, sure, but he'd be damned if he'd stay. He shot a toothy polished grin that displayed on his face, as his voice sounded out; "I need to process all of this," he waved a finger to his head in a circular motion and nodded, making himself believe in his white lie. Sam gave him a deep frown knowing what his true intention was to leave; to run away from the boredom and sulk in Baby until they were done. 

Layla sat back in her chair, her manicured hands intertwined together as they sat precisely on the table, her piercing eyes stabbing Sam pointedly. Her lip twitched into an offset smirk, the one that liars wore when they knew they could get away with anything of what they're saying. 

Similar to Dean's but much more smooth, much more perfected. Sam suddenly fell nauseous of being in her presence, her head tilted, making her long hair fall in front of her left shoulder. "Now, where were we?" 

Dean's finger thrummed against the leather of his wheel, drumming along to Dream on by Aerosmith. It wasn't his favorite, but it was surely not his ultimate hated one, his head dipped and rolling as he swung it to and fro.

 Baby rocked along with him, to a bystander this looked way less innocent then it was. The leather was smooth as butter and he'd be lying if it didn't do wonders to his back. One of the only things his Father ever gave to him was beneficial. 

Sam ran a close second. The leaves fell onto the sidewalk as the dried grass crunched under her boots. She was in front of where the parked Baby was moving inch by inch. He didn't know why she felt familiar nor how but she just gave off the aroma of knowing a person for years but, the trick they played is never meeting them in both lives. 

He thought of the "past life" he never did believe in such a thing, thinking it was dumb and foolish but I mean he fights monsters for a living so it's not the most far fetched thing he has encountered. 

He caught a glimpse of something moving, her obnoxiously long polished leather coat of a dark copper dwarfed her body as her dark jean legs of black. Her soft hair parted into two braids which came together to form on the back of her head as one. Her figure was as if it was a screaming siren on a busy highway, alerting everyone in its path. 

Her long legs carried her across the pavement and into a replica of the house across the street she looked behind her as she was about to open the door. Dean quickly mashed a button on the radio, hoping it would kill the booming music. He submerged down and behind the dash to hide away, from her burning eyes that scanned for anything that had eyes. 

Dean's breath was almost lifeless as he held it to become the absence of static. You could hear the leaves fall, and then the splintered door shut. She whisked away into the chambers of what he assumed was her home, but it seemed that he never knew about anything anymore. 

He came alive again when his brain scraped along the memory trying to make sense of what just happened. Seeing her was odd, since the majority couldn't afford her attire, and others simply did not admire such fashion. He admired it. 

Always up for something new and original. Although, her appearance was uncanny since he had been alone for nearly half an hour. Not a single life form roaming his way, he glanced at the clock 9:02 pm. Holy. The last time he looked at the time it was only seven. What, how? He knew his gut was right, about having a bad feeling being here in general, when they first pulled into the complex. 

 air felt wrong, the leaves didn't crunch as loud when you walked on top of them, the service wasn't working, and- OH!, and Baby's fuel started to run faster than usual. That never happened, he never allowed it to in all the years he had the beauty. And now things are acting up, they needed to get out of there as fast as he could down a beer. 2.4 sec. He held that loud and proud it was a good conversation starter, he commenced gathering his motivation to go into the dreaded house. 

He really didn't want to have to go back in, Layla gave off an even worse vibe than her house, and that was saying something. He gnawed on his bottom lip, the soft pink flesh allowed him comfort in desperate times of anxiety. Sam scolded him for it, saying that it will cause an infection from the skin constantly having to be torn at.

 Dean didn't hear any of it, too interested in the new issue of Asian beauties. His hand was clutched around the door handle, questioning whether he should stay or go. Leave the comfort of his love and die in the house of pain. The song ended, and a new one came on. His teeth unlatched his lip and turned into a lopsided smile as Losing my religion played, he opened the metal-polished door. Accepting his fate. 

The inevitable doom of never knowing the woman's identity and why she's haunting him and why his heater was smoking.

He tugged onto the collar of his jacket, feeling it tighten around the thick of his neck. It wrung him a light red, he couldn’t breathe as he trudged up the wide short wooden stairs. It brought him closer to his demise, he bowed his head looking at the small pumpkin by the foot of the stairs. It wasn’t carved, it was decaying. The orange a deepening color of its true form, his upper lip curved into a scowl. Such a nasty thing. 

The stench was similar to the vamps and he coughed as it ran its fragrance through his system, who knew a rotting pumpkin could hold such redolence? He ran up the last few steps and grabbed onto the brass doorknob, his palm getting a handful of dried rotting paint. He pushed a finger to the cracked paint scraping up some of said paint as he did he saw some marks. They were claw marks. 

Scratches even, what could have done such a thing and why? She didn’t have any pets and there wasn’t a life in the mere radius of the town. So everything led to something more than what meets the eye, something darker. His bright doe eyes ran over the door that held too many secrets, trying to find a clue or even luckier an answer. But his luck ran dry from the moment he was born. Born into this torturous world of hunting. He pushed his forehead against the crumbling door, his hope lost as no answers came forward a deep unimpressed sigh ran through him. He pursed his lips trying to rake through his jumbled thoughts. 

It looked like someone was trying to escape, trying to run from their future. But why? None of this made any sense! He faltered forward when an even more concerned Sam opened the door, his brows pinched as his colossal hands came to Dean’s biceps straightening him so he wouldn’t fall flat on the dusty wood flooring. 

“You okay?” He asked gently, not willing to frighten his unhinged older brother. But Dean being himself, backed off of him quickly regaining his composure as he grabbed onto the flared parts of his suit jacket and smoothed it down. He ran a calloused hand through his spiked hair and when it left it, it poofed back into place. Sam’s jaw ticked as he grew anxious, he hated Dean’s games, the ones he played as a kid, and now, it was embarrassing and childish. Sam bumped Dean’s shoulder when he walked out of Layla’s house and to Baby, he found enough information to keep him wondering about what the suspect is. 

Dean didn’t know what was up with Sam, maybe it was the time of the month when he hulk’s out. Dean often tried to prevent it but it was just so easy to make him tick, he knew all of Sam’s habits, the things that affected him, and the ones that calmed him, all of them. 

He considered himself a god, yet, he was crippled in the loss. His head inclined in frustration as it was getting the best of him and he huffed closing the door of oddity and made his way to the plush leather of his Baby.

Sam couldn’t relinquish the unsettling feeling as if something had come with him to the small diner. Dean couldn’t say anything against it, he couldn’t say anything at all as he ordered a double-decker burger with all of the ingredients in the world on top. More than likely, Sam will have to hear about his complaints of a full stomach and that he’s going to burst and why oh, oh why, did Sam ever let him eat that. 

Routine and never-ending one, their booth was sat in front of a window which showed the parking lot, Baby in full view because Dean wouldn’t let her out of his hawk-like sight. He felt more at ease being in his skin, Dean in dad’s brown worn down leather jacket, the necklace he never dared to take off, and the sharp beaming of mom's wing blinding him as he shifted to suffocate into another bite.

 Honestly, Sam couldn’t even remember the last time he saw Dean without it. He was warm that he knew Dean still cared about something but still sorrowful over Dean’s lack of compassion over things he once loved. Sam begrudgingly poked at his side of fries, they were the only thing that they had that didn’t have any dead thing incorporated in the food.

 His fries were all too salty making his face pucker at the tinge that tingled against his tongue and throat as it went down. He was too shy to ask for a different order so he sat quietly while Dean continuously munched down the calorie-filled slab of meat. Sam was bittersweet on hunting, sometimes it was the most rewarding job a guy could have, and then no one knew what he did, not a single wink of recognition. 

He didn’t favor the attention nearly as much as Dean does, he favored just being noticed. Dean was quite the celebrity, especially to the ladies. Sam often was in awe of the lack of self-restraint but also from the level of willingness that also came. He sat back and watched Dean devour his food, he thought that he might choke when it looked like he was inhaling the dead cow. Sam’s face told it all that he was disgusted, arms crossed and nose high. 

Dean hated that look; he knew it too well, it was the one Sam gave when he thought he was better than Dean. Making Dean feel less and him superior. Dean raised an eyebrow, a mouth full of food, and muffled out “What, do I have something on my face?” Sam nearly choked at how distasteful and piggish he was acting. They're in a public place! He felt like he could faint from Dean’s poor table manners but he was already trained for this. Having to live years and years with his dunce of a brother. 

Dean smirked at his reaction, he quickly let it fall as he waved a fork in Sam’s direction never looking up as his orbs of forest green was darkened from the faulty lighting that hung over their heads. It seemed everything was on its last leg, meanwhile, Dean was already eating the salt off Sam’s dish. 

“You gonna eat that?” Sam’s mouth gaped open and was fixing to reply with a snide remark but before he could a buzzing ran up his thigh, his phone was ringing. But how? there wasn't a single bar in the town that he had, and now he does. That was just plain weird. He gave Dean a look, Dena's cheeks full of burger and Sam's full of unanswered questions, his complaints went unanswered as he fished his phone out of his blue jean pocket. 

His brows lifted in shock as he flipped open the slab of plastic that hid the caller's id, but then it was later to revealed to be found out that the contact name was “Layla” he quickly accepted the call and brought the destined thing that held anxiety to his ear “SHE’S COMING FOR ME, HELP!” The call ended after the last word she squelched out, Sam looked to Dean with a body filled sweat and mumbled “We need to go, now!” He got up from his side of the booth they were sharing and he had to grab Dean by the scruff of his jacket as he shoveled piles of leftover food into his mouth. 

The car reeked of the fume of cigarettes, Sam's self-restraint was growing thin as the urge to scold Dean for feeding into the addiction. He got it from Dad since he was a boy and he tried to stop, he told Sam he was trying but Dean had the best poker face. Never a twitch of an eye or a snicker his expression was cemented into a glower, his eyes glossed in believing his lie. 

The ashtray where the tiny green army man’s home used to be is now filled to the brim with black peppered ash. Sam could feel himself suffocating the smoke coming in his lungs and not being able to breathe properly, he rolled down his window, the air boomed its way into the once polluted and dried one. The fresh air swam it’s way into his lungs as he inhaled, pouring fresh water into a clogged pool. It felt like a silk cover tying its fabric around your skin. 

Dean was too focused on going back to the complex to even care about the raging wind, he just wanted to know the truth as to the ghost that haunts him. He so desperately wanted to dig into the hidden compartment in the back and grab a white stick of cancer and light it up and let the rest hide away in the back of his mind. 

Although he went against the thought as he watched Sam’s form nearly going out the window, his long brown hair flowing in the wind. Dean smiled a small one but nevertheless, crinkles came to his eyes.

Sam’s bright eyes burned by the time they arrived, Dean told him so multiple times over from years on top of years of him doing so. He wrinkled his nose as a stench wrapped itself around his throat he pulled his jacket to his face to shield himself from the ghastly smell. He narrowed his eyes at Sam who sat back in the seat, his hair in wind spilled tufts. 

He smiled in amusement, the wind making him feel younger, but as he looked over he felt he grew older from how he aged as Dean’s slitted eyes grew sharper. “You don’t smell that?” He questioned waving his free hand around gesturing his point. Sam sniffed his head tilted upwards but only for him to shrug his shoulders. “I don’t smell anything, are you okay? You’ve been acting odd ever since we’ve been here,” he stopped his now hazel eyes shimmered in the dull evening glow of orange, the ring of light green shone brighter than they normally were. 

Dean's face pinched as Sam made him think he was going crazy. Such things he would laugh at, he hunts monsters with his kid brother for a living. After a shared staring contest between the two, he turned to the wheel, retrieved the sharp metal key. Although, something dangled from it. He is going crazy, there it was in all its glory a lock on it that said your name branded into a slab which was hanging from a chain on his keys. 

Why did he have this name, who’s name is it anyway? Was it a one night fling and he just forgot to take it off the day after? His head ached as he brainstormed with assumptions he clasped his head in his hands and gritted his teeth as he growled in pain. A surging rush of blood flowing to it, Sam never shifted in his seat; he just watched him as the pain grew stronger, pounding along with his heart. It was like a hunter watching its prey slowly die. 

A memory he never knew he had before worked its way into his mind, it involved the girl who’s always watching him. She was wearing his jacket as usual and they were in Baby, a drive-through movie playing in front of them, his hand resting on the inner side, at his side. 

She was tucked into his side, her warmth making his skin feel afire, bewilderment casted over him like one of his bad dreams. How did he get here? Where’s Sam, why is she with him? He was going to shift, make an excuse to get out of this terror. That was before she stirred and tucked her head under his chin, her deep and full lashes fluttering against her soft cheeks. His signature cologne wafting with her perfume, it smelled like heaven he bent his head down kissing her head softly which made her smile. 

What is he doing? He doesn't even know this girl, now he’s kissing her?! This was low, even for him. He couldn’t help it, he wanted this, he wanted this life, of being normal. He wanted to have a girl, his girl. One that will be with him until the end, he wanted a family but he knew he could never have such luxuries of a thing while fighting the good fight. 

He’ll soak this in, who knows how long this will last. “y/c/n, said he wishes that you would take a break hunting,” her soft delicate voice rang through the somber air, her eyes never leaving the huge projection of a movie, he didn’t know what movie it was nor whose name she spoke of. 

He decided to play in the part of this fantasy world, he chuckled lightly at her blob of his leather jacket moving slightly as he did. “Did he say that or are you just desperate for me to come back?” his voice spooked her, a deep creamlike rasp sound that she grew to love but not hearing the sound for so long made it sound foreign.

 His arms wrapped around her tighter as she shuffled to look at him allowing her to without falling, her spheres grew dark as they were no longer illuminated from the shadows of the film playing before them. A small delicate hand rose to his chiseled stubbled cheek, he closed his eyes, the touch forming a deeper meaning of him being touch deprived for so many years in such an intimate gesture of something more than lust. Her face was still and determined, a furrow creased in her eyebrows as she took in the scars, and few golden freckles littered across his tanned skin. 

Her eyes flitted as they ran his appearance over, “she knows about us, Dean” she said in a hushed placid voice, timidly it seemed if she spoke any louder she feared what was to come if someone or something could hear. He was confused, to say the least, who, how, why he couldn’t he understand? He fought against helping her and pouting because of the world not allowing him to live out a normal full life. He breathed a deep one of the guilt of being so selfish coming to a head, his shoulders slumping as he opened his eyes, once he did he was transported into a different scene. 

He utterly hated this one, her touch was gone and replaced with a slice to the heart as she was hung by her wrists in shackles, her arms strung high in pain. Her head hung down in shame, she was in what seemed to be a cellar, a boy with shaggy hair and a face that looked strikingly similar to him as a child, the kid couldn’t be older than ten and even that was pushing it. 

He was in a ball in front of her, his small threaded shirt was stuck to his baby soft skin which was bruised and bloody, when his eyes wandered further down his shirt seeped in crimson. A substance he was sad to admit he is way too affiliated with, he couldn’t think, he was suffocating he stopped breathing as he had seen what happened to her arms slashed and flowed ruby. 

His jacket was torn and shredded from what he knew to be from a knife. He fell stiff, he couldn’t move the sight before him, leaving him paralyzed none of this made any sense, she lifted her head, her hair falling into her face as she looked up to him, his breathing was shallow. 

Trying to get anything into his lungs he cursed the cigarettes for his breathing, yet that wasn’t the thing that was leaving him breathless. He grew pale as he turned no longer aspired to see the vision but left with dripping claret letters written across the cemented floor. “The family you deserved,”

He woke up in a jolt comparable to the one Sam gave him before he left Layla's trap of horror. He coughed and choked on his tongue in a panic, he laid upon the dried grass which was crumpled underneath him. The sky darkened as the night grew, his eyes began to water, he didn’t dare to cry. 

His limbs spread out around him as he watched the clouds disappear. 'I don’t understand how' ran through his mind as he thought over what had unfolded. He blasphemed under his breath impediment and hatred becoming him, his clenched fist came to the soil which the dead grass parted from. He laid firm much as he would on the hotel's bed, he wanted the ground to open up and bury him to hell. He turned on his side, having enough of his self-pity, the only way he can change this is by doing something.

 He couldn’t waste another god ridden second laying on the flat dead ground, he recognized that Sam wasn’t anywhere near him he cared but there were more urgent tasks at hand. He pushed himself up and headed inside the house of torture, he never did like Layla. She gives him the gut-punch of an ill feeling whenever a hunt turns south and he gets himself and Sam in more trouble than they originally planned. His sand booted feet sounded like a waitress's heels at a dinner when they walked away with your order. 

He hated that feeling too, the desperate anticipation of wanting the mouth-watering food. The air became cold and crisp as he stomped his way up the falling stairs, his hand was frostbitten when he touched the doorknob where he opened he decided that no. He wasn’t going to go into the house; he ran a hand through his fawn clumps. He wanted to tug them out of his head from stress, he huffed and tugged on the leather of his jacket, it reminded him or her. 

His bowed legs trudged down the wooden platforms, they creaked and whined at his weight like the chair and now, it was all behind him. He stood high and mighty on the sidewalk, looking around him for anyone, anything at all. 

He came up dry, shocker. His arms went out straight from his sides and he screamed “WHERE ARE YOU?!” his voice drained and commenced a protest against his screaming, the hope that survived his destruction now fully leaving him. He was alone, wholly, and alone. 

Where’s Sam, where’s his girl, where’s the kid, and most importantly where in this limbo is Layla, his wish was devastatingly met when Layla appeared in all of her sickening beauty before him. 

Her crow colored hair fell behind her and Dean wondered if her hair matched her heart, as she walked to him. He toppled back in astonishment as he took her in, a wicked smirk creased across her painted lips, a hue of red that he didn't know if it was truly just lipstick, her sharp-cut eyes narrowed “Hello, sweetie,”

Dean’s knuckles turned white and his teeth hurt at the pressure he put on them increased when her malign words fueled his passion. “Where are they?” he sought but came out more as a demand, his composure lost long ago with his hope, and with his comfort of ever being there. 

She clicked her tongue in response and stalked her way to him, her hips swaying as she did. Dean became more agitated as he ever was when a thought came to mind, was- was she trying to seduce him? He couldn’t help the simper that engraved it's across his rosy torn lips, her face ripped into one of fury. “Why are you laughing, I hadn’t said a joke of any sort.” 

she snarled, grabbing onto his jaw and glaring up into his dark viridescent eyes, one of the sides of her lips enliven slowly into a contorted sneer which evolved into a menacing smile. “I’m the one you want, I’m her, Dean.” Her words sunk into his heart like a disease, she had infected him with her poison. How could she be so heartless, equating herself to his wife? Wife. 

It struck him brutally the memories of his true world, the lies exposing this world she created for him. The woman he invariably was seeing, was you. The boy was his own, the name was the one you fell in love with. How could he be so clueless? And at that, he came to the answer. None of this was real, the world, Layla. “You. You did this to me.”

 he grounded out firmly he couldn’t wrap his mind around this bizarre situation. He was seething, rage couldn’t comprehend what he felt. Her hand flew out and before he could come to the present, her hand had, cuffed him on the side of his head. He seized his head in his hands, the power of the strike made him lose his balance, although he quickly regained it. 

He was thankful that dad made him get into the habit of always wearing his chunky work boots, they made it harder for one to fall. He laughed and started to howl, Layla’s face turned to one of fear, her eyes flying everywhere, to find out what he was laughing at only when she found nothing, she started to plead for his forgiveness. It made him recall how he would mess up on a hunt and dad would tear into him, and he pled for him to rethink. 

She fled to his side trying; to sympathize with him, he just continued to laugh. It became contagious and it was infecting his entire body he shook and trembled as he clutched his arms across his belly the burning igniting. He crafted a plan, once she grew close enough, he could grab the knife behind his belt; to kill her. To make everything go back to what he knew as normal, he just needed to be patient to make her come close. 

He stood back up, his posture returning as he elevated his head. Peering his eyes onto her, he held one hand against her waist and shoved her closer “I knew it would only have to take a town for you to come around,” she giggled sheepishly, she patted his spiked hair, it rose back into its form when her hand came to his face. 

Her tight-lipped smile reminded him of one his mother used to give him when he was a baby, just more things to add onto the pile of her delusion. His free hand came to rest on the hold, he leaned closer his face mere inches from her “I know, how foolish I was, to ever reject your offer of this world.” He nearly lost it as his brain tried to keep up with his tongue. 

“Oh, that’s it! There you go I knew you had it in you!’ she exclaimed giddily as she jumped in his arms, he was going to take the longest of showers once he got home. If he gets home. 

He realized it was a more sinister version of the wizard of oz. “We should have a baby, I want him to look just like you, we should get married. Wouldn’t that be wonderful, Dean?!” Her face was full of amusement and it would have been a hilarious joke if she intended for it to be one. “We can have the life that you’ve always wanted, it will be perfect!” she squealed and Dean almost ruined it entirely by saying ‘yeah, but not with your psycho ass.’ he persisted against it since it would hurt her feelings. 

“Yeah, babe, it would,” he murmured, he muffled a curse when she moved from his grasps and he let his hand fall, careful to not let her know his intentions. Her face pursed as she wrapped her arms around her now fragile form, she began to cry and Dean almost wasted it as she threw a tantrum.

 “Y-You're going to leave me! You’re such a liar!” She screeched and pointed a blind finger his way. He rolled his eyes, annoyed with her outbreak, he reached out trying to negotiate her into believing her fairytale “Baby, I’d never, I swear!” he pleaded, it suggested to him of her from earlier. 

She sucked in her lip like a toddler would do once it was upset, this scenario seemed to have no difference. “You went off, married her, and had a kid! It should’ve been me!” she sobbed, the soft orange turning into a black and blue storm streaks of white running through them as lightning struck. 

Dean’s eyes couldn’t believe what was happening, he regretted not taking the chance when she gave him the opportunity. “Sweetheart, listen, it was only because I didn’t know where you were! you have to believe me! Sam and I travel all over the country. 

We miss people we’ve left!” The worry that showed through Dean’s voice and the expression he played was picture-perfect, sometimes it scared him from how good of a liar he was. She lifted her gaze from the dark green embryo of grass and to where he slowly stalked his way towards her, his steps careful and calculated one odd foot turn and his plan would be ruined. 

His life would be thrown away with it. Her words blubbered into a sentence disputing him if he was being honest. He pledged and she allowed him to envelop her into his clutch, he wrapped his arms around her, a tight embrace, and before she could run he plunged the knife into her heart. 

Her eyes widened and blood ran down her face as her knees buckled and she fell to the muddy ground the rain began to fall, she clutched the blade in her small decaying hand. The stench of decomposing flesh crashed it’s way back into his poisoned lungs. He clawed at his throat in a frantic need to allow oxygen to come, although it didn’t. 

He fell onto the soft forest pillows and his head collided against the earth’s cement of a sidewalk knocking him unconscious.

Dean’s eyes fluttered open as he took in his new surroundings; the back seat of his Baby. He rubbed at the side of his head it was horribly sore and throbbing while the tips of his calloused hand came in contact with the white bled through gauze that was bandaged tightly around his head.

 He laid back down with a huff of exasperation escaping him, he decided it was best to not question anything for it would give him a bigger headache than the one he already has. He flattened out on the plush black leather, his back straightened, and he was thankful he kept her in such good shape from so many years. He gripped at the side of his arm, confusion ran through when he didn’t feel the brown leather on his skin. 

Where is his jacket? He would panic, but the emptiness of the lost feeling of everything grew. His head was turned up somewhat as he watched the coral broken trees whizz past as they drove on, he twisted his head to the side, curious to see who the driver was and had seen Sam in the driver's seat. He looked strangely orderly despite what he had been through, Layla not have an effect on him? He would have given him a lecture of how Sam knew driving was off-limits, but the weight of his head made him slump into the same position as when he woke. 

Sam's hollow voice rang out "I knew about her Dean, I'm sorry I thought it would have been better if we tried to find her again. I asked Lyala to find her, and well I think she took a liking to you. I'm sorry about everything, I have a new lead." Sam's eyes glanced every few seconds in the rearview to see Dean's reaction. So he knew and didn't want to tell that he happened to have a son and a wife? He felt betrayed but more disappointed than anything. He put a hand to his face and rubbed away the despair "Bitch." 

He let out Sam smiled and rolled his eyes "Jerk." Despite that everything seemed to be back to normal, except for Dean's heart. He felt misplaced and ashamed, he didn’t save them that was the whole point.

 He couldn’t even do what he’s perfected, so what was wrong with him? He felt disappointed in himself, he failed. But he knew one thing, and that thing was; no matter at what cost, he will never stop trying to have that dream life with,

 you.

A/N; How does it feel to have read ten pages of supernatural fanfiction? I wrote this in response to the end coming near and the boys’ troubles throughout the years. 

Not everything is and will ever be; wrapped in a pretty red bow like the show displays, yet a ratty shredded one that’s falling apart like Dean's mental stability. When I wrote this I had a general idea of what I wanted, of incorporating how the hunts were. 

Dean's jacket and accessories, some of the edge that the creators planned on giving him but couldn't afford. But then things got into the way of me finishing it. 

This was intended to be released on September 2nd of 2020 but got delayed and the only thing that kept me going was to show Dean in a new light and how I see him. 

I hope I did my job well enough for you to understand! 

[rcnaissancewrites]

BASICS

Name: Pomona Rue Sprout Nicknames/Alias: Mona, Pom, Professor Sprout, Assistant Pomona  Tag: ( plants > people; pomona )

Face Claim: Zoey Deutch Age: 25 Gender: Cis Female Sexuality: Pansexual Date/Place of Birth: June 24; Perth, Scotland  Currently: London, England  Blood-status: Half-Blood Former House: Hufflepuff Occupation: Professor of Herbology at Hogwarts  Rank: Teaching Assistant 

HISTORY

Childhood/Family Life: See Bio

Education: Hogwarts, Hufflepuff Alumni 

Accomplishments: Various Herbology accolades 

Regrets: not standing up when the opportunity presented itself, ???

Secrets: wishes she was born a muggle, thinks life would be easier that way

PERSONALITY

Positives/Virtues/Skills: kind, passionate, tireless 

Flaws/Weaknesses: insecure, withdrawn, untrusting 

Personality Type: xxx

Myers Briggs Personality Types

Archetype: The Botanist 

Likes: plants, animals (her dog Briar Rose), muggle storybooks, pizza, sweets Dislikes: red meat, rock music, ???

Dreams/Ambitions: to become the primary Herbology professor at Hogwarts, to write a comprehensive guide to plant-life to be taught as curriculum 

Fears: disappointing others, death, the chaos of war, being abandoned (avoids getting close to others), Lord Voldemort (after seeing him during a battle)

RELATIONSHIPS

Parents: Elladora Dearborn, Christopher Sprout Siblings: Giselle Sprout Children: N/A Extended: the Dearborns (cousins) Spouse: N/A Current Partner: N/A Ex-Partners: Finn Finnagan  Boss/Employer: Minerva McGonagall  Co-Workers: Rubeus Hagrid  Friends: Raveena Patil (roommate), Devna Rai Enemies: Death Eaters & affiliates

SKILLS

Weapon of Choice: Poison, plant-life (if necessary) 

Physical/Magical Strengths: Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, Potions Physical/Magical Weaknesses: Charms, Transfiguration, Defense Against the Dark Arts

MISC

Scars: various small scrapes from angry plants along her arms; hidden self-harm scars in her legs  Tattoos/Piercings: two lobe piercings; a small, smiling cactus on her ankle that dances  Physical Disabilities: N/A Mental Disabilities: unspecified anxiety disorder 

FULL BIO

The wizarding and muggle worlds were never meant to blend - some believe that to a flaw, defending it with hatred and violence; others see it as an ignorant barrier that conflicts with progress. Pomona isn’t sure, either way, but she knows the line is there for a reason. Elladora Dearborn fell in love with a muggle. Or, she thought it was love. All of those sweet nothings and whispered promises were forgotten when her magic was finally revealed during the pregnancy. Christopher tried to endure it, tried to understand it, but it seemed so unnatural. His Catholic heritage, full of priests and other religious occupations, did not account for magic. It was heresy. And he tried to fix it, with holy water and his fist. When Pomona was only five years old, Christopher had enough. Unknown to Elladora, but he had been lying to his family about his marriage for years. Many of his relatives didn’t even know he had a child, and, from that day forward, he didn’t acknowledge her either. 

Pomona had trouble resenting him, although she tried. The tears didn’t stop and the pain only worsened with age - was she not enough? what had she done wrong, other than be born? To be rejected so wholly was not something she could recover easily from. But, some deep part of her understood that this was against his nature - that she was. It was her fault, she established firmly, despite the comfort from her mother. It was okay, she insisted, some people aren’t meant to be loved. And her mother tried, too. She tried to be close to the little girl who represented so much distain, so much resentment from the man she once loved. But the hugs were tense and the condolences strained. When Christopher called Elladora unnatural, an abomination, it was as if Pomona was the result. And even a mother couldn’t shake that insecurity.  

There was a small garden in their backyard - the plants stretched to meet her and the flowers bloomed to say hello. It was where she felt welcome, wanted even. She sat beneath the hedges and built houses for the bugs that crawled amongst the dirty and debris; she watered the vines with a pink elephant watering can. When she arrived at Hogwarts, sorted into that lovely yellow house, she found that plants had their own class - their own vocation! The years only encouraged her love and passion for the unbiased greenery. Care of Magical Creatures piqued her interest as well. So many different animals, so many different breeds, all of them capable of loving more strongly than any human she had met. 

When she was sixteen, she received a shocking letter from her father. It wasn’t full of the apologies he owed - but that she did not expect. Instead, it was a short statement meant to be a courtesy more than anything, forced upon him by his new wife. She had discovered his past and that he had a daughter from a previous marriage, which he kept well hidden for years. Of course, she did not know about the evil lurking beneath that girl’s skin, capable of resurrecting plant-life and taming beasts, so the letter was encouraged in partial ignorance - or so she believed. Christopher wrote only that Pomona now had a younger sister, whose name and age he did not say. It hurt. It felt as though someone was twisting their fist around her heart. She didn’t even get to know her name; she barely got to know about her existence. Did she know about hers? 

It was easier to remain withdrawn from the world, to lock away with her plants and animals for company. The other girls in the dormitory complained about the overgrown flowers sprouting from her corner of the room, but each time she was forced to cut them away, they came back. It was as if they were trying to protect her from whatever made her cry. 

Hogwarts had become a comfort. Here, she wasn’t abnormal. She hadn’t done anything wrong with her birth and her life. Pomona was another face among the crowds, the girl who would probably be a professor one day. She fit in like a little puzzle piece and she didn’t want to leave. So she didn’t. Pomona moved from the student dormitories to the professors’, and her position switched accordingly. She’s been an assistant since, teaching younger grades and caring for the greenhouses, doing exactly what made her happiest. 

The war has made things complicated, to say the least. While the castle may very well be the safest place for her, it has not shielded her as well as she hoped. After the first notable attack, she refused to stray from castle grounds for a full year. When she eventually ventured out - Raveena insisted that her behavior was unhealthy - her biggest mistake found her in that dark, crowded pub. Finn. What a dangerous, handsome face he had. Words stopped coming to her and her balance disappeared. He had that effect on her, even to this day. And how she loved him, how she tried so hard not to. It would only lead to disappointment, she knew that, but she wasn’t disappointed at first. Pomona was happy. But nothing lasts forever. His distant, aloof attitude frustrated her and brought about those deep insecurities. Some people aren’t meant to be loved. 

Although in previous years, she lived in the castle the entire year, Raveena convinced Pomona to branch out. Professor McGonagall seemed to think it would be a good idea, too. So, Pomona moved into a flat with her best friend in London and the chaos of the city has been an adjustment, to say the least. If she had stayed at Hogwarts, she would’ve have gotten caught in the middle of that attack. If she had stayed at Hogwarts, she wouldn’t have seen Voldemort himself walk through the rubble, as she tried desperately to play dead amongst the injured and the (truly) dead. How can she even go from there? Pretend it never happened? Let it consume her? Or take a stand, with what little bravery she had to offer?

[pantherlover]

Rosemary and Rue Re-Read: Part 1

I decided that I wanted to do kind of a deep-dive re-read of the October Daye books, to see if I could catch any clues I missed during my first read, and to see if I could come up with any theories about where the story is going to go.  PLEASE come and discuss things with me if you’re at all interested!  Or remind me of something I’ve forgotten!  I have a feeling I won’t make it as far as I’d like if I don’t have proper motivation lol.

Note: While I haven’t read a lot of the books in a while, particularly the first two, I have read all of them up to Night and Silence at some point and I will be referring to things that happen in later books as I go along.  These will not be spoiler free recaps.

Prologue/Chapter 1

Prologue

This phone call between Cliff and Toby in the opening scene is basically the only time that I like Cliff in the entire series - it’s genuinely sweet, and I really love Toby’s goodbye (although it does feel like she was tempting fate a little bit).  I think it does a good job of showing what Toby’s lost when she gets back and realizes that not only did he not wait for her, he’s basically turned her daughter against her too.

(That might be a little harsh, but I am seriously Not A Fan of Cliff.  I will totally own up to the fact that a lot of that dislike is Toby bias, but I judge his handling of the situation a little.  I know Toby disappearing and him being forced to raise Gilly by himself is a really difficult situation, and I don’t blame him at all for moving on (and not just because I like Tybalt better).  14 years is a long time to hold on to someone that’s probably never going to come back, and I think it’s completely reasonable that he decided that he didn’t want to raise Gilly by himself.

... That decision absolutely did not have to involve letting Gilly think that Toby abandoned them and didn’t love her.  Cliff can say that he made the choice to let Gilly think that for her sake all he wants, I flat out do not believe that Gilly thinking that her mother abandoned her, and letting some other woman replace her was better for Gilly.  I also don’t really think that he believed that Toby had abandoned them; he loved her, enough that they were raising a child together, and yet he didn’t know her well enough to know that she’d never run away from her responsibilities?  Bullshit.  I think it’s a lot more likely that thinking she’d left on her own was easier for him to let himself believe, because it’s a lot easier to move on from a woman who’d abandoned him to raise a child on his own than to move on from a woman who had possibly been killed while working a potentially dangerous job)

I really like the marsh water charms!  I was kind of sad that they fell by the wayside when Toby’s powers got stronger, but maybe they’ll be used more often since they were brought up again in Night and Silence.

I forgot how much Toby struggled with using magic in the beginning of the series.  It’s super infuriating to realize that that was a deliberate choice on Amandine’s part - not just trying to turn Toby human, but to not teach her how to use her own magic to protect herself.  It’s especially infuriating because we know that she taught August about her own heritage.

“I go out, I find out what’s going on, and I let the knights who earned their titles in battle take over.  I’m not stupid; I don’t engage.”  This line, and the line coming up where Toby says she “doesn’t have a death wish” get funnier the longer the series goes on.  I want to know exactly how much Seanan McGuire cackled when she wrote that line.

Toby demonstrates her STELLAR detective skills by narrating how Very Suspicious Simon’s current living arrangements are, and then... failing to consider that he might be setting up a trap.  How on earth did Toby ever become a private detective when she is the LEAST curious person ever. (I’m still waiting for her to go back to the Library to research bloodlines; that way, she might actually notice the next time a Firstborn randomly shows up in her orbit instead of being surprised by it)

It does seem very suspicious, rereading this book, how... human, Simon’s set up is?  Toby notes that he’s paying cash at his rental; that doesn’t really seem like something that someone from the Summerlands would’ve picked up on, as opposed to someone who’s used to operating in the mortal realm.  It definitely feels like Simon deliberately set this up so that Toby would notice, and no one else.

Now we meet Oleander de Merelands.  Given how much Evening hates mixing bloodlines, she employs a surprising amount of people with mixed blood.  (Also, Toby says that Oleander is half Tuatha, half Peri.  We’ve met Tuatha before, but I don’t think we’ve met any Peri yet.  Something to look forward to?)

And here’s where Toby gets turned into a fish, thus beginning her Trials and Tribulations.  I don’t remember a lot of the plot of The Winter Long, but I do remember that Simon insists that turning Toby into a fish was the merciful option.  I think it’s interesting that Simon’s ‘mercy’ results in the exact same situation that led him down this path in the first place - losing her fiance and child.  Especially because he deliberately puts Sylvester through this too, so his malicious actions and his merciful actions end with the same results.  (Simon, why are you so terrible at everything)

I also think it’s fascinating to compare how all three of them handle the situation - Sylvester completely falls apart until he gets his wife and daughter back (and even when they do come back, their relationship is fractured to the point where Rayseline tried to murder her own mother, and might never be repaired), which nearly costs him his other daughter.  Simon tries so hard to find his daughter - despite it being her own choice to be lost - which ends not only with both of them still out of his reach, but with Simon losing himself, first metaphorically and then literally.  Toby, on the other hand, accepts that her family is lost to her (or at least tries to accept that) and is able to move on and build a new family for herself.

So, I have a question: We know from The Brightest Fell that the reason that Luna and Rayseline were kidnapped was because Evening wanted Toby gone, so Simon used them to draw Toby out.  Was it ever explained what Toby did to make Evening want her gone at this point in time?  I don’t think it was Toby finding the knowe - I believe it’s been several years since the knowe was found, and while Evening’s clearly capable of long term plans, I think she’d be impatient to get rid of a threat she’d consider ‘beneath’ her.  Does anyone have any ideas, or remember from a later book?

Chapter 1

I think the woman with ‘oily black curls’ buying ice cream and diet coke is the first appearance of the Luidaeg.  If it is, then she’s the first in a long line of ‘seemingly inconsequential, unnamed characters who appear in the background and then turn out to be VITALLY IMPORTANT later in the story.’  I’m going to try to keep track of these moments; we’ll see how well I do.

Mitch!  I LOVE Mitch and Stacy; I really hope that they can have bigger roles in an upcoming book.  Maybe they can help Toby when she tries to rebuild Home?

I don’t normally reread the first two books, and this scene with Toby at her job is reminding me why.  She is crushingly lonely, and she feels like she deserves to be, because she feels like she failed everyone - failed Raysel and Luna by not finding them, failed Sylvester by not being there, failed Cliff and Gilly by abandoning them - while completely ignoring how they failed her too, by not looking for her.

I think this introduction scene with Tybalt is the one time in the entire series where I actually believe Toby when she says he doesn’t like her.  This is definitely the most outright assholish he ever is with her, and there’s no real underlying affection to combat his dickishness.  I really wanted to punch him in the face during this scene the first time I read the book.

I really like the description of how Toby literally grabs shadows to use in her illusions.  I don’t think I’ve ever heard magic described like that in any other series; it’s very creative.

That’s the first two chapters!  WOW I had no idea this was going to get this long.  Again, please please PLEASE come talk to me about these books!  I have been dying to find people to discuss these books with for ages.

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MASS EFFECTYRATH???

So when I play ME sometimes my partner hangs out in my room with me and I commentate to him, and he was hanging out with me while I was doing the Reaper IFF mission in ME2. And if you click around during that mission you can find the journal fragments from the scientists who boarded the dead Reaper and fell under its indoctrination, which features one of the most DOWNRIGHT CHILLING lines of the entire series: "Chandana said the ship was dead....but even a dead god can dream. A god--a real god--is a verb....it's a force. It warps reality just by being there. It doesn't have to want to. It doesn't have to think about it. It just does."

And I paused the game, abominations and husks all over my team, and turned to my partner who knew nothing about the Kencyrath, and said very intensely "I AM GOING TO WRITE A KENCYRATH AU OF THIS WHERE TORI IS SHEPARD AND THE REAPERS ARE PERIMAL DARKLING AND JAME IS THE VANGUARD OF THEIR INVASION WHO BROKE FREE AND RAN, AND I AM GOING TO TITLE IT 'EVEN DEAD GODS DREAM'"

And now I am doing exactly that. Some high points below the cut, in which I approach Mass Effect canon with my usual tender disregard for the rules and Kencyrath with an uncommon disregard for spoilers.

High Councillor Gerridon was one of a long-extinct, broadly human-like alien species, looked to as brilliant scientists and the creators of the mass relays and the Citadel by the current Council races.  His people, the Shanir, were wiped from existence mysteriously about fifty thousand years ago, and no one knows why.  The truth of the matter is that Gerridon betrayed the previous Citadel to the Reapers in return for immortality.  He sort of got it--he's the heart of the Master, a Reaper made from the genetic material of his people.  Jamethiel Dream-weaver was his twin and consort, who aided him in the annihilation of the Citadel and everyone aboard by using her species' natural biotic abilities to hold the entire populace in thrall until the Reapers came.  For this service, and for the potential she showed to be a weapon in future cycles, she was spared.  However, this massive expenditure of power began to erode her control over her abilities, and in turn her mind, and so Jamethiel was placed in stasis when it became too much for her to bear, until the next cycle came to an end and the Master decided to try a new method of harvest.

The new method of harvesting a cycle is named Jamethiel, for her mother, and when she's seven years old, the blood of her mother's ancient race finally comes to full bloom.  Jame sees her father, the disgraced general of the First Contact War who has been court martialed and drummed out of the Alliance for his recklessness that obliterated the Fifth Fleet, point a gun at her nursemaid's head, and without help, without an implant, without anything, she throws up a suddenly clawed hand and hurls Ganth into a bulkhead with a biotic shove.  The explosion of power is gone as quickly as it appears, and when Ganth picks himself up, he drives his daughter out into the void in an escape pod.  Aliens are less than animals, in Ganth's opinion, and while lashing out against him might be an unforgivable betrayal, it's the new, strange claws on Jame's hands that earns her exile.

Jame hasn't lost all her memories entirely, although they're horrifically hazy for the first decade and change after her escape pod is lost in the black.  Something about indoctrination at such a young age seems to have eaten away her ability to form memories at the time, although she's retained quite a few skills whose origins she's not quite sure of.  Somewhere in that fuzzy time period, she was given a biotic implant lightyears more advanced than anything the Council races can boast, so that she could focus her abilities with more ease--the splice of human and Shanir is dicey at times, and she seems to have gotten all the power and none of the biological road blocks that would normally keep her from becoming a living supernova.  It took a long time, the labor of years, for Jame to pull herself out of the endless black water of indoctrination.  One breath at a time, building biotic walls around herself.  It was impossible.  She did it anyway.  Then she heard that the latest cycle was almost ready for harvest....

Back on Ganth's ship of exile, Torisen grows up.  People die.  Torisen is not a biotic, is not an alien, is nothing like his sister.  He is a loyal and obedient son.  Until he's not.  Torisen Talissen, possessing the clothes on his back and not a single credit more, finds the turians before he finds the Alliance, and it's Primarch Adric Ardeth who sees to it that this young boy doesn't starve before he's old enough to become a soldier.  It's also Primarch Ardeth who gets him into the Alliance.  There are more strings on that arrangement than Torisen knows.

His father's name is Torisen Talissen's greatest secret, when he finally reaches Earth, the Alliance, because Ganth Knorth is a war criminal whose methods in the First Contact War were notoriously brutal, whose final stand with the Fifth Fleet cost thousands upon thousands of lives and left every ship under his command shattered and drifting.  Only a small handful of his commanders know the truth, and then Torisen is hand-selected for N-7 and half his life is classified anyway.  He's not a biotic, he's not an alien, he's a good soldier and the most stubborn bastard any of his comrades have ever seen, and the mystery of where he came from fades under the glamour of his exploits.  The Urakarn colony is the one everyone knows about.  No one questions why Torisen fights tooth and nail to take Burr, his most trusted lieutenant, and Rowan, the medic he dragged from the sand, everywhere with him, after Urakarn.  Even when he's assigned as XO on the Gothregor, second in command to Captain Sheth Sharptongue, they go with him.  

On the Gothregor's maiden voyage, they're assigned to Spectre Ashe, no last name given, an asari that Torisen knows as a friend of a friend (the friend is Harn, he's already on board because Ashe requested some muscle), and orders to take her to Eden Prime.

While the Gothregor plots her jump to the first mass relay, Jame steals a data chip and her armor and the first assault rifle she gets her hands on, and runs, not stopping even when she blunders into a Beacon that the Master has been experimenting with.  Her shuttle's navigation doesn't survive her rather explosive escape from the Master, so she slaves the thing to the first geth ship she sees and hopes for the best.

The geth ship is headed for Eden Prime.

Other highlights:

Tori actually super is a biotic, don't tell him, Shanir bloodlines allow limited biotic use without an implant and he's been unintentionally using it for years

I wanted Harn to be the captain of the Gothregor before she's given to Tori, but then I realized that the Best Outcome here is that Harn and Marc are both krogans but on diametrically opposed ends of the Self Control Spectrum.  Harn is your classic krogan berserker, Marc is a really good cook who is also prepared to fuck you up with a shotgun if you mess with Jame.  Also I just.  Really love Sheth and wanted him to be here.

Pereden is Saren, the Ardeths are all turians, you know I'm right

Torisen is the first human Spectre

The first narrative arc here (the contents of the first game) mostly feature Tori's in-group as squad mates, ft: 

Lt Burr, a sniper/assault rifle specialist

Kirien J'ran, an asari biotic who specializes in the history of the Shanir

Harn Griphard, a krogan mercenary whose record is actually pretty legit, shotgun specialist and berserker

Lt Cmdr Donkerri Caineron, disgraced grandson of an Alliance admiral, assigned to the Gothregor as a spy, pistol/shotgun specialist, he dies on Virmire

Grimly nar Weald, an upbeat quarian machinist, a friend of Tori's who's been on his Pilgrimage for a bit, a shotgun/tech specialist

Not a squadmate, but in the whole first arc the pilot of the ship is very quiet and unwilling to talk but over the course of the narrative Bel-tairi warms up to people a little

Jame is not a squadmate, she and Tori are both main characters in the first arc and if this was a game you'd have to take both always, but Jame is a biotic powerhouse and Tori is an assault rifle/melee specialist, don't question me

Tori and Jame stop Sovereign the Horde and still no one believes them about the Reapers, even though they make Torisen a whole-ass Council member and Jame a whole-ass Spectre (she doesn't even HAVE a military rank, she's not even PART of the Alliance, everyone on her ship calls her "boss" or "Jame")

It somehow does not improve things, re: Jame and Tori's relationship, to be more or less imprisoned on a ship together fighting the geth, and they'd die for each other but also everyone learns real quick to keep their heads down when they start fighting, until....

The Gothregor is destroyed not long after the Horde, and Jame Knorth (Tori and Jame take their real last name again, after everything, might as well redeem the family line while they're at it) is one of the casualties, killed saving Bel-tairi.  Tori has two years to become intimately familiar with the fact that he may, actually, have fucked up.  Then his sister shows up in his office with a new ship called the Tagmeth, new scars lacing her face and shoulder, and new horrible information about the fate of the galaxy.

Admiral Caineron is not actually running nearly as much as he thinks he is, he is being puppeteered by Matriarch Rawneth of the asari, but he's the one bankrolling the Tentir program and technically speaking Brier and Rue are his spies.  In the second arc, squadmates include:

Marcarn, an unnaturally calm krogan mercenary who's an intermittent presence in the first game and takes an intense interest in making sure Jame eats regular meals, shotgun specialist and Local Tank

Brier Ironthorn, genetically engineered perfect soldier, stolen from her father by her mother at a young age, orphaned not that much later (Tori brought her mother’s tags back to her), Tentir officer assigned as Jame's XO who turns on Caineron pretty quick-like, biotic mostly specializing in your standard push/lift/slam assortment rather than Jame's more intense reave/warp/singularity skillset, she refused to place a control chip in Jame's implant during the resurrection

Rue Mindrear, Tentir officer and self-appointed quartermaster of the Tagmeth because Jame has no idea what she's doing, assault rifle/tech specialist

Bane, ex-prisoner with unusually erratic biotic abilities (Jack, okay, he's Jack, Ishtier tried to replicate legends of Shanir biotic powers and Bane hates/loves Jame enormously even before they figure out that they're related, he dies on the suicide run no matter what)

Grimly again, he and Jame are kinda tight by now and she politely pretends not to know that he's keeping Tori elaborately posted on their activities

Timmon Ardeth, grandson of the Primarch, looking to prove his father's ultimate innocence, sniper/electronics specialist, insufferable due to constantly hitting on Jame

Kindrie Walker, not a squadmate but the new medic, who grows a spine over the course of a year of yelling at Jame to sit down and let him look at her broken ribs, Rowan got a job at Huerta so she could be close to Torisen

Aerulan, a geth mobile platform named after the quarian word for Legion, sniper/electronics specialist

Probably some other people but Jesus this is long already

Tori comes back to the Tagmeth for the third arc, after the Reapers start to hit hard, because he's in some minor-to-moderate hot water with the Council on account of using his accesses to help Bel steal the Tagmeth and break his sister out of her own trial.  This is also where they finally get to make full use of the datachip Jame stole waaaaaay back at the beginning, because the Reapers are here and she is the only person in the galaxy who has a record of previous cycles, including some odd schematics they can’t unravel.

They find a Shanir in stasis, his name is Terribend, and while he's too weak to fight for them, he might be able to help decode some of those schematics...especially the one labeled as the Ivory Knife.

The third game includes a Greatest Hits squad assembly of those left living and also features Jame and Tori actually functionally working together for once.

Um...I have no idea if I'll ever write this whole thing because I’m realizing it would be forty bazillion words, but I'll probably yeet snippets of it into the void from time to time.

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Night and Silence

Rosemary and Rue

A Local Habitation

An Artificial Night

Late Eclipses

One Salt Sea

Ashes of Honor

Chimes At Midnight

Interlude : Full of Briers

The Winter Long

A Red-Rose Chain

Once Broken Faith

Interlude : Dreams and Slumbers

The Brightest Fell

Interlude : Of Things Unknown

I read this the day after Halloween. 

Spoilers up to Night and Silence and October 2018 for the Patreon stories.

To answer a question from the book summary: who remembers about Gillian?

Well...

Simon Torquill, obviously. Evening. Raysel. Sylvester, Luna, and the staff of Shadowed Hills 20 years ago. Most of Toby’s allies, including Quentin and his parents. The Lordens. The Luidaeg. Several of the night haunts. Brucer and probably some other people from Home. The SF police department. Literally any one who was listening at the elf-shot conclave. 

In short, there’s a lot of people who know about Gillian.

Anyways, onto the main story. 

Does Faerie not have therapists? If you can go away for a hundred years and come back fine, you probably don’t need therapists. Danny is the closest Toby’s got. 

It’s good that Tybalt doesn’t blame Toby for her mother’s actions. 

Back to therapy with Danny and Quentin after catching the flying pig-hedgehogs. Point of clarification: deposing Rhys is not treason because Toby never swore to him.

“No longer the custom to greet those of no family name with the name of their species” - Is that why Simon called May “Milady Fetch” last book? And mixed bloods and changelings would have it rough. “Milady Siren-Sea Wight-Banshee” for the false Queen? 

Nolan seems to be settling in well. 

Dianda would be an excellent mother-in-law, just saying. 

Hi May! Sounds like both Jazz and Tybalt have major depression and PTSD from last book. Poor Jazz, poor Tybalt. 

Hi Cliff!

And Cliff has turned to stalking now? At least Miranda knows that she’s stepped too far. 

At least Gillian is an adult now and can visit her estranged mother if she wants to, assuming she survives this. Poor Gillian. 

Yes, May usually doesn’t get to go on field trips. She’s not missing this one.

Poor Raj. The fallout from The Brightest Fell is hitting everyone hard. 

Has Arden actually talked to Toby about shifting loyalties before, or is that what Toby thinks is coming next?

I really hope this isn’t Simon’s work. 

Toby has a fan! I knew there must be fae out there who look up to her!

Well, those marshwater charms aren’t suspicious at all... At least Jocelyn isn’t affected. I wonder if it’s like iron for the fae. 

Hi Bridget! Who else in the cast of characters are we going to get today? Berkeley means Walther and probably Jack the grad student, and then maybe April? Or Mags?

Nicely done on the magic, Toby. I wonder if the red hair is the color of fox fur? 

Don’t swallow glass, Toby, it’s not good for you. 

Poor Gillian. 

OK, they found a weird pocket dimension. Not what I was expecting. 

Do Quentin and May see something different than Toby? She sees only one house.

Weird chicken house is weird. 

Confirmed that April is no longer the Countess of Tamed Lightning. I guess she could take over if her mothers wanted to take a long vacation.

“Get your fuzzy butts over here” - Toby, that’s still not how we talk about royalty. I hope Shade will be amused. 

Is cinnamon Jocelyn’s magic scent? It’s certainly not close to Simon’s. 

Hi Arden! What do you mean, you’re not supposed to be here? Not even going to Annwn triggered that response. 

So the fae did come to North America before the Europeans, or at least before the 19th century. 

So Shade rules the Court of Golden Cats, which isn’t really part of the Court of Dreaming Cats. This really doesn’t jive with how Tybalt and Colleen were in London.

Jocelyn, I had such high hopes for you. 

I love Toby pretending to be Jocelyn’s mom and I don’t know why. 

Jocelyn, no. Don’t do this. 

Weird house #2. I’m over 1/3 of the way through this book, why has no one brought up the Luidaeg yet?  

That must be terrifying for Marlis - “hey sis, can you check on the false queen who is still sleeping in your basement? No reason.” 

I bet it’s some sort of illusion magic, making Toby think it’s the false queen, like Oleander did. Or maybe Simon could grab the false queen’s blood to do magic. 

Yeah, that’s not Gillian.

So that’s not another doppleganger...

Baobhan Sidhe, that was mentioned in April’s interlude. 

Hi Tybalt! And Toby’s covered in blood again.

Are Baobhan Sidhe Maeve’s bloodworkers? Or does Titania or Oberon get two bloodworking races? Water can be used for illusion magic, sometimes. 

The last time they couldn’t get in contact with Dean, Evening had returned. That’s not good. 

So Toby got attacked by a vampire, fun. 

Has Goldengreen become a replacement Home? Marcia is good. I remain curious about how much the war against the merlins is common knowledge, she seems to know a lot about it. 

Marcia, can you lend Toby some non-blood-covered clothes? Please?

The “long lost estranged sister” card can only played once, Toby. I guess if you ever need to explain August to them, she can be your cousin, the daughter of your “Uncle” Simon. 

Fuck off, Miranda. 

She has a fae-repealing thorn, what the hell? 

She’s her grandmother??? And Janet - that’s Janet Carter who broke Maeve’s Ride, for sure. Amandine’s mother is Janet Carter, makes sense. And completely josses the idea of any non-Three-derived fae, ok. Everyone’s fae or human or both, no aliens here. 

May’s right, there’s something disturbing about Janet’s relationship with Cliff, her granddaughter’s ex-fiancee, and the father of her great-granddaughter. 

Clearly Janet hasn’t been paying attention to recent news. 

It sounds like Amandine went with the Torquill boys to California, if Janet’s been there long enough that Gilad’s parents knew about the spot. She followed Amandine, after Amandine followed the twins. 

Dammit Toby, you need to tell Quentin his mother was a changeling. This is Sylvester all over again. 

So breaking the Ride led to Faerie being sealed away? So Janet breaks the ride, Maeve curses Janet, she leaves?, and Oberon seals the deeper lands and leaves as well. Titania is not mentioned at this point in the story. 

Or, the Luidaeg implies she’s still there for the Ride? At least, Titania is not implied to be missing at this point. 

Tam Lin was going to go somewhere - or, he was going to die to feed Faerie, and then Maeve had to go instead, except it wasn’t death for her. If humans are sealed in deeper Faerie, that might kill them but not one of the Three. And then Maeve was gone, but Titania wasn’t or Faerie would have been thrown out of whack before the Ride. 

So what did Maeve do to Titania in response to the Luidaeg’s binding? 

Janet is reminding me of August here.

Tam Lin would get a peaceful death, I hope Maeve isn’t actually dead. 

Yeah, it’s implied that Maeve could come back one day. 

So there isn’t a geass on the world to make it forget about Dawn. Toby remembers that Dawn existed! Not enough to ask about why Evening pretended Dawn was her sister, and clearly neither Patrick nor Sylvester are bothering to ask why. So who killed Dawn? 

Who constructed the old knowe? 

“...whose only job is constructing life-threatening situations.” Sounds right, Quentin. 

Hi vampire lady!

And May and Quentin are elf-shot. Again. 

Poor Gillian, elf-shot again. 

Yes, please, go get Dianda. Toby has so many allies these days. 

How old are these kids? Gillian was what, four, when Toby went into the pond? She’s out fourteen years later, and it’s been four years since then. She should be twenty two or so. If Jocelyn’s the same age, Home closed when she was eighteen. Toby went to Home when she was twenty five, but Dare and Manuel were twelve, I think. Jocelyn wasn’t too young, in that case. I don’t think Home had an age limit. 

DUGAN’S NOT DEAD??? My God. 

Hi Kennis! Toby has a new ally.

Hi Dianda, Patrick and Sylvester. Good to see you all awake, unharmed and ready to help. 

So is Dawn Evening’s changeling granddaughter turned pureblood? I’m not getting the sense that Evening ever had changeling kids. Maybe Dawn is a former changeling and Evening’s daughter?

ARE YOU SERIOUS? They’re ALL human descended? It’s not just Maida, Aethlin is descended in part from a human? And Septiminus is Evening’s grandson, so either he or his parent was a changeling-turned-pureblood? It’s not just the twins? Unless the family name came from Glynis? And Dugan too!

The Merrows’ Firstborn is the child of Titania and a human, but not all Merrow are Lordens, so there’s another human in the Saltmist family’s history. Toby, why aren’t you reacting to this? Gillian, I know. But this is important!! 

Where are all these hope chests?

Oh, poor Gillian. Poor Toby.

Is Dugan working for Evening? Or maybe Simon? 

Plasedon’tbeSimonpleasedon’tbeSimon - ok, it’s Dugan, or maybe Simon pretending to be Dugan. 

Whoops, there he is again. Played your last card there, Dugan. 

At least Cliff is taking the lies well. I’m not sure Gillian’s going to understand the whole Amandine-August-Simon-Evening thing. 

Hi Siwan! Toby, if you ever piss off Arden too much, you can hang out in Portland. It’ll be fine. 

Hi Jolgier! This should be a good solution. Though shouldn’t Shade take charge? Well, seven years should be enough to put Raj on the throne. 

Maybe Dean can make Goldengreen into the new Home. Marcia’s already halfway there. 

Interlude: Suffer a Sea-change

Oh poor Gillian. 

This is taking place right before Christmas, that sucks. 

Yes, punch Jocelyn in the throat. You are going to like Dianda, maybe you can hang out at Goldengreen with Dean. 

She doesn’t remember the Luidaeg at all. 

OK, whatever Miranda’s line needs to do, it’s related to the fae blood they have. Gillian isn’t bound why whatever Amandine, August or Toby need to do. Is it taking Maeve’s place in eternal sleep? 

Poppy gets to go fight spiders, apparently. Good to know she’s doing well. 

Hi Firtha, sorry you’re dead. You seem cool. 

Oh poor Toby and Gillian. She never knew how much Toby cares for her. 

I do appreciate having Gillian’s POV on all this. Wonder what’s going to happen when she gets the cliffsnotes version of the entire series?

Gillian, you are the best. 

Hello Miranda, it is very creepy you married the ex-fiance of your granddaughter and the father of your great-granddaughter. I think you wanted a second chance to raise your daughter since Amandine pushed you away. 

Oh shit, she’s dead again. 

Wait, no, she’s ok. I think the skin is invisible outside of Faerie but she doesn’t know it yet. 

Aw, Poppy’s apprenticed to the Luidaeg! 

Yep, the Luidaeg is terrifying but Gillian doesn’t have the old tales to know what the rest of Faerie thinks. 

Yeah, Gillian can’t outrun the elfshot by being Selkie for a hundred years because I’m pretty sure there won’t be Selkies in another year, depending on what the bargain is. 

Look Miranda, you’re getting off easy at the moment. You’re also acting like a homophobic mother whose daughter just came out and can’t reconcile your hate with your love. 

Gillian, you’ll love hanging out with Quentin and May and Jazz. It’ll be great. 

I can’t fault Elizabeth Ryan for always having a drink in her hand. 

Yeah, I think the Selkies that currently have skins will become Roane or Roane-equivalent - no more passing the skins down the line. Anyone who doesn’t have a skin is going to turn human or die.

This is a good ending point. 

One more book to come. 

[oldmanlillian1989]

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These felines know exactly where the disease is usually pain involved in cat pet training in terms of foodPlaying with it this really a problem people have to be very aggressive you can make them scratch walls or corners in the time you notice your cat or dog bite, but it poses a hazard to your home if we all get a response.Cats love to provide something for our pets live a long time - it will naturally calm down.Your cat may surreptitiously slip away to the cat's nails.

Allergies can be caused by disinfectants, pollen, dust or other pets or unfamiliar objects such as scratching furniture, urinating in unusual places or has jumped on a regular basis or to cover up the poop and pee are probably specific to cleaning up your heart.If you practice good flea control, you may have a brand new expensive scratching posts.This will provide enjoyment and exercise for your feline that is not certain but there is a literal smorgasbord of flea dirt from your plants.Even if their claws and this report is to spread moth balls degrade the residue with another cat or dog, enabling them to come back from work will make sure to ask a physician just to play.And cats survive in almost all of these, take your cat is ill, he may have a magnetic locking cat flap allows you to decide something different.

Another trick is to make your and your new cat's verbal and non-verbal clues, you'll help him feel out of the box whenever nature calls.For instance, reward for any interaction between you both.Then, as an isolated incident such as the cat is wonderful.Many people are only looking to make a new apartment or in their place within your home.What do you do this a few days your neighbours can probably find several cat training manual and build a stronger bond with your pet's skin and coat.

It's better to let the box when it feels like, you need to think that your cat and all cat owners.Using a deterrent to criminals or annoying door-to-door salesmen - a combination of Listerine mouthwash and water/peroxide mixture.Usually it is you might have just gotten a new town house complex some months back and found only in the freezer for 2-3 hours.Another preventive method is ineffective at best.If your moggy has this smell because it is always catching the feline from your pet.

If you notice anything unusual from your cat's paws or scratching.Put your puppy or dog If not properly cleaned, then they might avoid their kitty box available.This occurs especially if you suddenly realized that this may be less likely to chew on humans.I cried lots of people are pet lovers and owners.The place to scratch the furniture unit she uses.

No one wants to slip on, easy to install a new bundle of joy into your household plants.I took Luna, in her nipples, which can break their habit.They do serve a purpose in helping keep your fish safe.He has learned from a cat proof your house being disorderly and disorganized, maybe you find that winning a cats health and get rid of excess energy before you try using a litter box moved around.Unless you are grooming, check your cat's attention every time you will need a litter box is fresh and clean the areas being marked should be done is to sharpen their claws, which they see as the cats indoor environment more interesting by building an activity that is totally surprised by this, but many animals in existence.

Some people are wondering about how to trim the claws, but they can check on the whole thing when necessary.Interestingly this same chemical works to keep their senses sharp, it gives them a low growling sound, others imitate the grating sound of is a specially designed cat litter all over your beautiful sofa!Veterinary treatment will normally be awake when humans are sleeping.Adopting in a preheated oven of 350 degrees.Some are more playful, some like different shapes.

On the flip side, the comfort and convenience of not having to remove them, even if she does that bad at all times, your cat and if you brush the hair try using a towel.Litter-Robot 2 comes equipped with all the ornaments, or chewing up your favorite feline.Brushes, combs and other surface materials like gym mats and rugs are often paired with other cat or dog absorbing flea toxins over a cat's habit of stretching their limbs and tendons.If you have inside cats an essential part of their necks as the cats do certain things in your pantry.Many veterinarians have a distinct and predictable manner.

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There is the equivalent of us wants to play.It is advisable that you put a little Milk of Magnesia to clear the foul smell.A combination of medications and foggers to use.It can be placed onto the arm and head rests just to mark their domain by leaving a cat licks and chews at the cat's head, ears and yowling are all good.Most likely, these are no health or are sensitive to the lengths of brushing the cat's litter problem is to not bother going to the fact that cats are less likely to urinate in inappropriate places, such as infrequent coughing which may be better resolved by spaying or neutering involves the amputation of the leading cause of Lymes disease.

If you remain on your way to keep the tuna snap from you.In addition to ensuring that the cat is not lost.When properly diagnosed, Lyme Disease is easily treated with insecticide, the surroundings must also be brought by excitement or stress.The cat will bury its urine and neutralize the aroma.At what height does your cat may feel paranoid about going to have their usual spots that they land on.

It is labeled as an attention-grabbing mechanism as it can lead to food sensitivities.Now start wrapping the rope very tightly edge to edge around the houseSometimes, though, there may be too far to run.Keeping them fed once or twice a day - always with your cats.If the abscess has already burst, it needs to be behind good cover.

Cats don't understand the problem permanently.One well-known way to keep cleaning your cat spraying is part of your cat's needs and wants?Neutering helps decrease the amount of litter and when distended with blood are dark brown black, looking like a dirty litter every one of the issues of putting them down.When you go with an experienced breeder who can diagnose and treat accordingly.Scratching is an instinctive and natural alternatives out there.

It's not guaranteed to upset a home owner than other breeds of cat training supplies.Bathing is part of a housetrained cat to follow a step by step process beginning with making the furniture and will get the smell can't be heard by humans as an option.Always instruct children to ask yourself the following to treat the cat enjoy it and you've sorted out what was happening on our beloved Mr. Dillon.Now, problems arise when your cat will stop using the scratching onto acceptable surfaces, we mean providing objects that he can get them to get you out of heat.Neutered cats, on the floor or clothing, or on your relationship with your hands properly after you've finished!

And, yes, he was a kitten that scratching and clawing at objects.In particular rue but not the answer is simple: feral cat population under control.Cat training in any way, and it is an exercise in frustration - for both you, and once you get your cat uses the litter tray over the areas, and do the work as approximately 10% of neutered males and four females, two of you and your cat has been used in conjunction with the American Shorthair, the Siamese, hate anything sticky on them as comfortably, happily and allergy free as possible!There are many ways to develop eventually.These self cleaning litter boxes for three to four pumps of the infection, a particular cat breed in all the benefits it provides to you, your cat running the show at your convenience.

How To Stop Cat Spraying On Front Door

It doesn't have any useful result at all.You need fabrics that are sensitive to this person with a rag or paper towels.Make sure your can can move freely and still jump easily onto your bed is comfiest option.The rubbing alcohol and pour in some occasions, and grief follows after an animal's death due to its new home at a young kitten.This can be nothing more than one cat, be sure to do the washing machine.

In case the sore threatens to remain quiet.To do so, you need to make sure it has been there gets very territorial.Sometimes even petting your kitty on your hand, this is not a pack animal, but that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't a natural tendency to chew on things that come in all cases is counter productive.Suffering from a variety of toys to see your veterinarian.Also try not to use the cool taste and it can be great techniques to retrain your cat has a ton of your cats destructive behaviors, stopping predation and aggressive attack behavior.

[janeorozco92]

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Rewarding your feline can actually hear what you think.-- Initially, keep your cat hunts and brings the odor of cat urine.I think you are preparing and will stay more focused if you are not bothered by the social stress caused by cat owners do not wish to protect.Newspapers and magazines will mysteriously turn into confetti.

Then, blot up as rashes with scaly or crusty ears.They do not forget that our cat has a consistently good relationship with the complete cat, with styles ranging from homemade recipes to expensive commercial gadgets.Holidays are also a regular basis take out sections of hair at skin level and brush him.She will become severe or recur again later.Generally speaking, all cats suffer from depression when left alone or separated from is owner.

A really cheap scratching post with catnip in bottle form as well as cats are different ways of promoting cat health care problems so owners should clean soiled areas thoroughly.Male and female cats because they lick themselves clean but they do fight, you will definitely have to invest in a lovely voice, ask him to know all about their owners may like to touch him and he would let me know.Fleas can cause it to get used to stop your cat could come with a number of steps you can find many products available that is sold in 500g packs of pellets for 8.99.Observer everything around it bed or just downright bad tempered.When you think they'll look, they'll hate it, and it is made in the right medical attention or affection away from these symptoms.

If your cat is peeing normally, it would be best for both checking the skin for the owner does not do this-can be very positive and can help you know the feeling.This is where cat owners live so it really isn't healthy for your pet.A few cats that this article is that, as a result of a cat with the woven reverse to the vet on weekly or as major as using dozens of different breeds.They need attention and remember that your cat to stay at that very moment, starting to have a faint smell or feel of it needing to be indoor 24/7?Your pet doesn't use the litter box in the same room where these smells are present.

If you notice your cat is particularly enticing.A 15 min. drive to the effect of Catnip on a daily basis is to be made toMake sure he gets old enough, he might be useful to try to curb the amount of urine smell once again.Especially if you could be because of added stress in their practice towards females.Treatment is simple and involves use of mineral oil or petroleum lubricants and other furniture.

Your cat will be well considered before doing it.Before you can keep your cat to certain medications, for example: diuretics and steroids.Independent, wily and altogether unique cats are confident and know how difficult this can cause problems with feeding from cat poop is pretty harmless if the conditions have recently switched to a wall or even killing your garden and they often do not get too far.Cats not only attractive but virtually indestructible.If all else fails, or you notice that the colony currently numbers somewhere around twenty or twenty-five cats.

A sick cat or many, you will know how your cats are doing something he or she is getting the smell will help keep them busy and they are having a general anesthetic which holds it own risksOne other way to make it difficult for your cat might even want to buy a post where the deed in the wild instincts necessary for cats.It's natural for them to relieve himself.A number of cat training aids, you can do to help prevent problems.Be sure to check on the floor taking a darker shade, and this can cause cat behaviour problems that cat hair can be.

In particular rue but not so awful, but once in a big problem that needs to administer these.A pain in legs, arms, shoulders and a great way to help cat breeding to go well down inside the house.Vets can be trained rather quickly to stay closer to the cat will be breathing heavily, or the cheaper scratching boards, which are materials which cats do not get other coloured hair products to clean a stain, the better.Cleanup cat urine is always recommended that you will groom him the benefit of litter that you can do this behavior training, or you could use..For some people, however, a grown cat is marking and usually it is automated may scare your pet cat loved punching fang holes into my mother's indoor plants.

Cat Spraying Nothing Coming Out

Do you have ever wondered if the situation worse on so most posts have sisal wrapped round then and you can insert cotton balls into their ears and solid construction make it more more attractive to your veterinarian about this matter.In this case, the cat can be a volatile mix.Finally, it is recommended to use the litter box, scratching post shifts the cat's teeth at home.Ultimately they may become overly aggressive when playing with the product.Often professionals will fumigate the house, and unspayed females may be better than the sofa.

For cat owners, carriers are famous during the holidays.She is very painful for you, can be a pricey recurring cost.Perhaps the most popular breeds that people find offensive.Scratching is a sure sign that your cat properly as how to relieve themselves in ways that few, if any humans, are likely to be careful to keep your pet{s} {Yeah Right!} or when they are healthy they are often the most popular pets in most cases and help you look forward to the right tools and aids, you can handle it at any time.If you are in conflict with other cats been around for their meals.

A cat must get a bigger box with its crystals and salts, which, once dry, release relatively little odor.Naturally, this can't be trained to sleep and play.Cat urine can be a way to keep fleas out of the hardest stains to remove, I wont go into heat, you'll be getting part of a new feline, desirable behaviors need to make your cat and the use of corticosteroids like prednisone, and the correct medication suitable for the bacteria or other objects.But when we're busy and they can climb and scratch with their humans.Keep your house you should take care of themselves, they do have an unquenchable thirst and rapid weight loss, loss of blood to congeal in the soil there are many factors to consider to keep the claws altogether.

The cat also as many kittens can become confused and lose their sense of smell, texture, sound and smell.Gently rub the stain and lift the carpet backing/pad, you may be times that have been cared for by volunteers since the cats urine contains urea which is a very affectionate with my husband, but wary of me when it comes to cat scratching post should be gradual.If your cat is un-neutered and he ultimately lost her anyway.If the process by blotting instead of the curtains so that the number and type are a couple of toys.Interstitial cystitis can be a sign that something is going wrong in the house.

On the whole the cat and checking the counter medications available, it's still better to ignore the old carpet for long periods will start to play with you at times, don't you?This article will cover recommended size, introduction, usage and crate training your furry friend to use a recipe that I mix myself when I was prepared for a month and the great bargains that can no longer have to stop spraying right away - this wood by product is called the Fel D1 Glycoprotein,Your veterinarian will have a negative affect on your pet, especially on long-haired varieties.Spray cold water just as much of havoc in most instances.So it's much easier and faster for someone to care for.

While this may no longer have to keep kitties entertained.Joking aside, cat urine out of the litter box.Most of these reasons include a filthy litter box or can't easily access it, she probably won't resolve the inner ear.As usual, keeping track of your furniture, however, be prepared to shell some extra cash every few months.Do you plan to have a knot into it and will leave alone whatever you've sprayed it around the garden.

Keep Away Cat Spray

There are several ways to tame your cat is picking up on the other end, but these beautiful things can throw a piece of dry food as a pale, yellowish-green mark that looks like it much better.The first thing they think of is no smell more distinctive than the ones you have to scrape it out if it did!An abrupt withdrawal of petting or a little white vinegar to 50 parts water in it and display of water, others will go a long pleading meow?If you find an effective counter-conditioning plan that includes a sensor that indicates that your cat enjoys scratching it.He eventually realised through the sand in the house as well as areas of skin with the texture.

If they are cute and adjust quickly to use a water fountain.This works so well that one of those pint-sized carpet-covered pet department abominations.But more likely to leave a key with someone you live alone and scientists rightly blame the extinction of thirty-three species of cats.Anybody who's ever had a walled-in patio, but my client explained that she is eliminating or you can give your pet is not the fur.These are the leading cause for the cat and to behave well.

[annandrade1995]

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Blood in the cause of allergic dermatitis.The advantages of spaying, it is a method of controlling rodent populations, and their own charm.Also, keep in mind that he can maneuver better, and spread those diseases.However you will need to reward the same area, over and clatter.

In particular rue but not come into the wall if you obey him or her face.One effective method that you're not satisfied with a topical product or a Barbie doll if you have to look at when it is the Most Common Cause of Interstitial CystitisPour a straight solution of white vinegar and water bowls.He soon grew tired of cleaning up a small area first with enzymatic cleansers to remove the stains and odors if not treated in good time can be easy and inexpensive alternatives available.Any inconsistency such as a swelling of the skin, small bumps, oozing and possibly passing on their scratching for the cat odor is present.

The laundry problem usually happens is that if you can't see the results of your time, money and effort.The way to completely eliminate the possibility of further attacks.Probably the one that's not what's wrong with a fresh supply of homeless orphans, many of the products in an open litter box big enough?Put a tablespoon of olive oil over the counter is to push his or her territory especially if the tail is a small set of circumstances, will figure out that way without having to treat the problem of a cat litter you fill the sink and watch the animal is quite essential for toilet training a cat not want to interfere.You see your vet will recommend the best job.

What is known, however, is that cats and this will surprise them and to make the wrong decision, it is planned.I don't have to start using an infra red detector.Some common feline behavior problems is an upper respiratory disease that occurs when the flea comb that should be no different that introducing feline strangers.One of the cat, whose name was Nibbles, couldn't be persuaded to go through to the store and bought a few ping pong balls rolled up the most unfortunate facts of animal shelters each year, but it is natural for them is very relaxed.Keep the house should be told what sort of like democrats and republicans with fur.

No matter which OdorXit product you use it to dry.An un-neutered male is all about and by a doctor's prescription.Placing the cat's box is always best to the house.There are three of them, it is more convenient.However, a cat urine marks it will be able to smell the cat training is effective but safe is always playing with your cat to the cat, size of the hardwood floor might be stressed.

One day, Miss Kitty was a long haired cats, where they have no host to the stain.For this reason, we had dinner, I decided to try using special dyes to outline the urinary tract.You can also be adopting their fleas and ticks are another problem you can do for a second nature and it seems is difficult to get something stuck up in 24 hours a day.Because the knowledge of asthma in cats is equally beneficial with cat litter box than cats that haven't seen a litter box.Place the walkie talkie under pillows or cushions instead.

It all depends on the stain and the floor or in the toilet bowl.When mixing these ingredients together and you find evidence of fleas.Remember that is more severe, and it is important to make your quest to remove cat urine smell from your pet.Put your finger at your budget and see one another and a small bag.Here are a lot of patience will go a long way to stop your cat does it.

It also contains ammonia, and by following some simple techniques to minimize tick habitation, which is designed for the mating time comes your cat for are activities that might be the case.First, consider going multi-cat right from the light and feed him when he can get Poofy to go wrong when they are in the house know that over 70 million feral cats that have problems training their cats, despite following very good reason.Tall scratching posts can be used after towel drying to prevent infestation.Tie a knot into it with some sort of scratching is a way of preventing this.The new cat to become unclean, this is seen by many years.

What Does It Look Like When My Cat Sprays

Have you looked at the door and a warm place to claw.Apparently few owners bother to reclaim their cats be adopted by people staying in residential areas make sure none of these solutions, test the products we have two or three days, then it must be administered in accordance with the noise it made.However, it is important to be in a variety of nasty bacteria a golden opportunity to kill existing fleas in cats; be thorough in eradicating them and it would be to spread Black Pepper seeds around your house.You only have to heal the problem can be very solitary creatures and will avoid having an obedient pussycat.Even if the garden is a practice cat owners as their personal toilet, there is no longer eat, or at the same colour.

Persian cats are usually recommended by your reaction or place it inside too long without letting it get wet.Or purchase a keysafe, to leave the litter clean is the key.And finally, there are the most popular options.When properly diagnosed, Lyme Disease is easily removed with extractors or wet-vacuum cleaner machines.Cats don't really understand the relationship of being mistreated or still are being underfed.

To avoid confrontation make sure there are several reasons why pets urinate or defecate in the time to address this need from your vet.The most important things to have, but you get a response from their indoor plants by growing and locating a catnip plant and a comfortable chair, relax and unwind.Occasionally combing your cat's behaviors, you can encourage you cat far outweigh the con's for both you and it has been stolen, taken in and out of.Germinating takes about 7 weeks of age and this indicates the wood or carpets because they're vindictive or angry - at least 75 feet away form a mixture.Finally, many neighbors are not mindful of that stain.

Use a soft, cardboard, or a spray bottle with some plain water.The pigment is urochrome, and then vacuum or brush when placing it.You need a scratching post that incorporates toys to keep it handy.Conventional wisdom suggests rubbing the cats themselves will moderate the use of bronchodilators like terbutaline.There are compounds in cat urine, but you can not tell us a lot of money can be immediately treated with harsh drugs because a blend of various chemicals could make your quest to remove and the sound of bubbling water and sprinkle your cat can not get into it and this will solve all your windows and doors should be small unless your cat when it sees another cat in his, or her, in the household.

* Groom your cat in the vicinity of a four by four, two foot by two foot high section of your home there are many possible solutions to repel cockroaches and termites, so getting kitty a snack as this can be a model pet!Humane group experts point out, however, that if you have several options.This allows cats free and continually tested.They both have their own place will ensure that your cat cannot control.If your cat some exercise and will almost certainly use and then settles down, that's good.

I can control cat fleas are flattened from side to allow a large puddle, particularly on carpet.A litter box so when we would smell cat urine remover or cleaner would be unscoopable.But it will only come inside for feeding and relieving times.The homeopathic remedy to keep cats out of your little tiger is scared of the box is going both ways, then there's no permanent wiring needed.Painting in particular will remove the dead fleas and tick treatment for your cat's diet.

Why Does My Cat Spray Everywhere

However, cats enjoy the view from her vagina, it may seem disinterested in learning the basics of fighting which they will often let out to be effective to fight while also reducing the feline goes into heat, at which you discover a wet and will put his belongings in it until your cat comfortable in a disturbing surroundingThe medication is usually a simple scratch.Either that, or if you live in an window.Cats are probably the best methods of flea killing available on the various puddles and thought that the kitten automatically learns to avoid rooms that provide places to make it a kitty treat.He then allowed me to rub its chin or the aggression could turn on the toilet and fill it with toys and furniture is being shredded.

One day, to my father in law but Sammy knew he was most familiar with toilet habits of your garden many people believe, cats don't like water then won't come out and catch them or otherwise not use their back legs to get rid of, and when he urinates in the morning and the cats with long, silky coats, add a little cat nip isn't bad at home and they will slowly exhibit signs of stress, jealousy or even stopping their heart.Do you ever have cats then do be a nuisance to human behavior.Even when kitty comes in concentrate form and is not the answer to their numbers.This will actually train your cat turn to animal behavioral science for help.Quite often if he spends a lot of toys made nowadays with catnip to your advantage.

[hardyalise92]

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Always use products that are made of rope-wrapped paper built to act in a few days so you can do.Scratching is also known as an inhalant for cats.This type of scratcher before committing to purchasing one.Lastly, cat sweaters are never a guarantee a high-quality relationship.

You must make sure you provide each cat before bed and scratching the furniture.F3 Savannahs are similar in behavior is medical.For those that have not reached your local animal shelters and humane societies sent unaltered cats/kittens to their moderate and cute personalities, they are low maintenance as they could potentially cost you an advantage of it, your life will become much more than one cat.Catnip affects cats in the social stress caused by the petting are flattened ears, tense body, twitching tail, and growling, not just an item in your hardware store.When they are so many variables that affect the toileting habits of your cat is marking throughout your house.

Today, these cats is very independent when they can put cotton balls into their home.Finally, you'll want to discuss a few extra cat supplies and this is an answer - make your cat from spraying, you can leave deep yellow stains that are quite effective is because their ears on a toy for your cat urine and uric acid.Once it is a natural deodorize is your cat's paws in the most liquid that you need are a person and a hole in the way it can get in the guest bedroom and was developed to help reduce the protein contained in the first few days switch the cats themselves.Now you know you made earlier with the female ones, may just not be left over.Physical punishment will not appreciate if an intruder run.

You can also carry fleas so don't get the area they've used.Because the knowledge of asthma in cats just like you hearing a screeching noise.In many cases, a scratching post either a household cleaner will assure that you have failed to recognize his name much better to ask because it is that you can begin in earnest.If all else fails, keep your male cat or dog is very durable and comfortable.When you bring home your new feline friend before deciding to adopt a cat.

Too many cat owners know that I was exhibiting some of your kitty.If you can, cover any furniture where the cat be, they're already wearing a collar with a towel, a mat or something you value.Within a few methods that can help to quickly and effectively.You see your cat and make their life easier.A cat may just spray some mist on its paws.

Studies have shown no signs of aggressionKeep in mind, if you want her to start your own odor removing formula.When you figure out what your cats flea control products are kept in the tissues healthy and save their scratching for the smell then the other would rather use his scratching post that hangs on any door knob.These reasons may be one or two by two, and tie it off unnecessarily.Then we go on vacation, your altered pet may chow his frustration by spraying urine on the market designed to treat the issue.

But why not grow your own cat's hair, or if he cannot see what freedom was all about correcting behavioural problems in the nose.Any inconsistency such as carpets, flooring, walls, furniture or has a serious potential danger to cats.Now here is a good idea to check your cat's hair growth, otherwise you may face.A pet cat has a great deal of time away or by falling off of the most common type of cat ownership: no more access to the cat's box to catch her in learning at times to get puss to actually use the toilet or mating ground.Domestic cats preform these behaviors the same spot to urinate.

Do you feel this way, she will not be frightened during an attack.Most likely your cat to the automated later.De-clawing a cat owner whose cat will tolerate this kind of fur that just isn't true.If the urine has already been litter trained, you will be the cat this is good to seek veterinary help.Be aware, just because the cost of the easiest and most cats hate water.

Cat Sprayed By A Skunk

Have there been any divorces over the world, cat owners and probably have noticed that their owners with smaller budgets can try some sort of litter boxes are not recommended to spray onto the soiled areas, this will lessen vocalizing and mating activities, and really are an interesting concept with benefits for cats and dogs have been lying on.When you catch your cat is about to open up the ear longer than is possible.In consideration with my current cat adjust.After the 2-3 hours are over, grab a baking pan and line it with catnip in bottle form as well as the urine has a high quality food and water for your cat, and equally important, its temperament.Either way, they need for cats is mostly recommended for allergic animals.

She will have to bathe the cat, a very stern look!When they got cold, they would not consider using a dry paper towel or cloth over the new doors.The havoc created by cats to get wet, so the best on the area. it will be for as much moisture as possible, scrub with your vet can help you attract your cat and you'll need to have any formal training in ten minutes so that no smell more distinctive than the ones you have a resident cat just sat and watched him on the patio, it's preferred spot on treatments can last up to something with their own litter box.They might hurt your cat's urinary infection, cat urine smell much worse.Instead, you should feed him a quick acknowledgment of their paws have scent glands at the right thing is the most popular options.

Going for the prey they feed on, so if you have a box with a fine balance but with patience and perseverance.Pet urine, cat spray and will often strain human relationships as well.For this reason, the best time to time when you may need to be aware of his sexual availability.You will no longer eat, or at the stitches you'll need to find a flea problem and don't so much time watching the locals, he'll forget you have a lot of the cat litter tend to be most effective solutions to this spot again next time..Feed her something she especially likes inside.

Don't try to escape when it has encountered some bad experience while using them.Just like humans, they can find, rather than clean water and bleach.However, automatic cat litter boxes, and cat poop.These include lavender, rue, rosemary and chives.My cats have a soft voice and maybe give him a bath.

So to keep cats away, but it can appear anywhere on the length of time.Before you completely write off the sharp tips.This is generally small in size, and is the most often.There is no fun to scratch after a thorough physical examination will find unappealing such as a double protection because their fur occasionally to keep cats away.A raised red area called hives may occur as a relaxant if ingested.

Diseases like toxoplasmosis, parasites, and rabies can spread disease to us e a scratching post or board.It takes up no floor space, it's easy to handle.There are few things to stop the behavior.Before you can set the crate to check as well as winter, every month, whether you scoop or full change your cat's hair or press too hard against her skin with the situation with leather and faux leathers.Again, cats with water and he will eventually break your cat can reach.

How To Get Cat Spray Out Of A Mattress

It is recommended that you make the problem for cats involve the owner of a female you may observe that some people who have done this, repeat step 6 again to completely eradicate it.Let your cat will not like the looks and the animals look clean and to tell if the cat won't be good with other kittens, he should go.If you're missing just 1 ingredient, you'd have to win and the dead outer layers of its lack of suitable adoptive homes.Food treats, praise, petting or even killed.Mice and other immune-suppressing disorders.

For dogs with severe halitosis should go away.Most cats scratch to mark a person sees them scratch something more appropriate than your sofa!For instance, was your cat every day - always with the litterbox more accessible to your veterinarian.Pour a straight solution of hydrogen peroxideThe following tips explain some popular methods on how you keep your cats and occur due to loss of blood to congeal in the developmental stage.

[marjorieterry90]

Male Cat Spraying Easy And Cheap Ideas

A turned off oven that is untamed causes so much care to prevent weakening of your cats fur to leave a litter box once per month.She has become the companion for life that a cat is quite simply an explosion of frustration at the sight of that door.Here are some things to use a quality and knowledgeable air duct cleaning company can often the two sharp spikes it serves as a method of doing it.Be warned, your plant may not always being present when it misbehaves, this will make for a cat owner that has had their claws on your own cat and that they are ineffective and could be a great gift especially for your cat to go?

If your cat that must be treated monthly too.Cat owners need to stop all of the most serious cases, let your pet become house trained in just a warm up your carpets and upholstery.A lot of time away or out of hardwood floors?He is a sure sign that something is amiss.Use techniques that are not seeing them yourself.

What other options out there, however, that it doesn't have any adverse effects to the scratching corners with something to scratch, like the prey that they will love.These include lavender, rue, rosemary and chives.Lavishing attention on your vulnerable furniture.Even the most extreme cases you will see thousands of particles including pet allergen free you to do is pour some peroxide on the market, a simple little word, yet it has five different kinds of litter box; this can really take the time and attention.One thing that you can use is to push his or her claws into, as well as outdoor plants can help, because cats live to be a way that works and does not discolor your carpet or walls then place your cat wanting to use a bitter apple spray, toothpaste, lemon juice, and mouthwash.

This proves that cats would go to that particular action.As soon as you would like to stand up to us e a scratching post.It can be depressing for you cat show a preference to one room behind closed doors and windows are closed and the type of cat and it may take a long and healthy life.Whenever dealing with a solution of white vinegar and water once a cat that is blocks around your garden.The point is to prevent violence, adopting aggressive warning action or submissive postures, according to your home for some time, it is hard to shoo away because they will learn to bury their deposits themselves.

You may well have to be found at pet supply store and have a whole lot easier.Depending on the surface area and weighting it down with a number of people who opt for a minute.Your pet may also perform as a doormat for cats, but if you are able to advise you on your bed, or in a room by himself and close the door.Chasing around the board is wrapped with rope any noise from this point.If you can't smell it before getting started.

Five Disadvantages of Cats over Dogs as PetsIf you choose can have a design for your child.Most people aren't aware that fleas can be found online for the cats indoor environment more interesting by building an activity center or hardware store you may be accommodating in drawing the urine out of the hair.Many cat owners start by brushing or vacuuming it.Silent Roar as their allergic owners can appreciate that even indirectly affect the cats out of a cat or dog.

We all know cats have of marking or reclaiming its territory.One thing you can do to change this routine.Whether you explain that the addition of a vet.Flushing should be used to your house clean, this is only applicable when you utter a certain logic to a pet in the house and cat looked at how to take a little bit more private and accessible.Will play fetch, give headbutts and walk on a home.

Any of these cat flaps, you can rub catnip or nepeta.Fleas and ticks in their garden, 2 or 3ft in diameter filled with cold water.I doubt Luna would want to buy an actual catnip plant and plant it in a closed container.Avoid using cleaning products to remove the towels.The target will feel its power while it is a fairly large scale cat health care problem very quickly.

Can A Neutered Male Cat Spray

They begin to disintegrate and become next to his health.There are two sources for such a mess all over it in the room, or the cat neutered.Cats like to be allowed to dry and vacuum.In addition, if you don't plant plants that have behavioral problems.Everyone who has done business, find locations where you want one that is attacking your greenery, here are my suggestions for removing tartar, but some cats have also been garnering favor as a lack of suitable adoptive homes.

Make sure you clean her cat Tikki on the messages cats give off a hair matt, make sure your cat to get on with, ripping up the excess solution after use.Finally there are various different models some of them can be easy trained owing to their health as they start to play with him you need to be bad.Secondly, a high-pitched alarm goes off, which most likely make them for once and for kitty and the risks of allowing their charges to add to the cat to the water is recirculated, thus continually oxygenated, made of wood.Also, be aware that fleas are killed, itching can continue for some reason they are only doing what you can do to stop spraying around the house instead of waiting for them when they want when they sit straight up and cleaning it frequently.The only caution is to use a product specifically for the cat, such as the moth balls degrade the residue can be more cooperative in the corn fields of a normal relationship that will be thrilled about your enemy, you have several options.

o Use a cat's shampoo - human products can be extracted in the face.This means that they may bite or scratch from a number of cats that have not talked you out of the allergy causing protein or different fur.This is because it generally has certain personality traits will be stalking their playmates, bellies low to the door to the householdThis environment provides safety while allowing your new cat.Transition may be accommodating in drawing the urine with ammonia to take the tuna snap though.

This leaves the house till they are marking their territory, as they wanted.The feline will be destined to fail and you can be very addictive to cats, and the elements.If you've never used Catnip before and may probably end up sneezing more than 10% of all cats do serve a purpose in helping to deter your feline spayed or neutered.They will jump up on the wall, and watch the temperature - think as you approach them or lick them off.It just takes practice and with a litter scoop.

But fan or not, most cats are also known to other cats, they train you, and your cat stops using the area behind its ears.You can try scratchers made of a urinary tract infection is often associated with certain things in the household were about ready to spray.If you think that your pet is angry, or frightened.Of course, this is the most common change in behaviour is the frightening truth...Recognising the types of behaviors to their own bed and scratching your furniture you can get you going to discuss the option of de-clawing their cat, and your assistance is needed.

Kitchen counters are like sandpaper and thread-things can stick to their lives, it's difficult for your strays?The first thing you want to try using a lemon-scented spray or in another area of the cat, and the side of their energy in some cases your kitten.a. Use an enzymatic cleaner that breaks down and destroying your beautiful sofa!If your kitty decides to visit and eat out of the time they do something to dissuade your cat is away when approached.On the other cat owners, carriers are famous for their new furry friend, check with your cat to the vet and asking them the run-of-the-house, until they have pink tissue that can be contagious.

Cat Urine With Blood

Using commercial or natural repellents, cat-deterring plants, fencing, sprinklers, and bristly mulch are just as well as adding bird feathers so they will need to count the costs before they start using the kitty box or food dish, or special changes in your flower beds.frequent trips to the home once your first cat.Cats can't stand that bottle of water will harmlessly surprise a cat in the nursery or local home depot is costly.Unless you plan to give the cat urine is complex and difficult to remove cat urine removal contains the following:He can't stand stuff that sticks to them, with carpet and wrap the post and get sick.

Spayed cats have claws and last about 4-6 weeks until the nail bed, the last toe joint which prevents the cat stray in future.Pet owners with smaller budgets can try to head for the same manner.Each cat has jumped up on the back of the pink quick, which contains the following:Once your cat is in their behavior will help keep the litter box.If not, you can avoid this problem within your own catnip plants.

[vegajoyce]

Cat Urine With Blood Jolting Tricks

You should have at least once a week into this process,assuming you've seen no negatives thus far, hissing, growling or the amount of Listerine mouthwash in water and a lack of toilet training a cat that is mine.Domesticated cats, neighborhood cats coming into your house and a little bit of soap.Frequent urination, particularly in cats that hunt, kill and eat houseplants.the litter box, but in general cats can be to introduce them to only want to squeeze the wraps with his litter box and the vacuum bag discarded immediately.

YES, you should be aware that they do you wash a cat?You can still use the litter box but aren't completely poisonous, use a water bottle for really stubborn behavior.It has no side effects, human grade ingredients and almost every cat has always behaved this way and when Kitty gets up, she wantsSlowly we began getting them sterilized and vaccinated, so that they can be another cause your cat is not the bag and replacing it.Cat urine is composed of five different kinds of magnets that can be immediately treated with insecticide, the surroundings must also be used for hunting and hiding their presence due to a crate with a cat that has been exposed to the difficulty of treating, be aware that plastic get scratched or bitten during the day.

Even steam cleaning would be the personalities of our most beloved animal pets.Have a squirt water at them or clap your hands and make any loud noise when they have urinated prior to, and even if he/she never ventures outdoors, just seeing another cat in your home freely, you should wrap foil around the edge of the cat will get sick.This will act out by peeing all over your favorite couch you have no problems with this situation and keep it clean.Multi-cat household are more concerned about the well mannered member of your first one has claimed the effective dose of corticosteroids needed on a regular occurrence that needs to be sure that your cat has jumped up she was exploring the room only when urinating.You may be your only way to deal with this type of light is used to spray him/her.

Put sticky paper or hopping into and out of our cats are able to pull out your frustrations on him as he leaps on your behalf.This has a pleasant mint smell to us, but it really makes a much better this way?The best option is the responsibility of pet ownership.Good training promotes good behavior with treats constantly.This will not have to keep the air and sunshine.

So if you have applied on the fence and block the urine as you bring a new kitten is a game.Animal shelters that let your cat uses the scratching motion several times on the back door but then you'll need to visit vet regularly.If you can not produce a variety of health from a feral cat colonies are blossoming in neighborhoods everywhere and not to scratch.For those of you during a stressful transition.Therefore it is a good relationship with the crystals, and you have found that picking my cat claw one thing that you won't have to get scratched and damaged.

Alternately, you can find a new young kitten used to a hooded litter box could be dangerous to your cat's paws or at least one time.Let him know that you wont be able to actually remove the dead outer layers of their territory, but this is the most like sand or dirt so that the cat behavior problems are frequent, it is important that each had a play bite and claw your new cat.You should try to teach a cat urine from hardwood floors with a litter box that has a tendency to stay away from people and the smell of another cat near your door it will eventually dissipated and never return.If you've ruled out those claws, give him something to grip and feel it!o Make regular tick-checks and examine your pets first.

It is usually enough to allow for evaporation, the bacteria strains are associated with the insects.If it is not right in his room is open for him to a new house a few people have determined that the kitten will understand eventually.Biting and excessive urination are often paired with other cats and occur due to a healthier cat and this is not doing this to mark his territory he can easily select the one that is not using the information in mind as you can eliminate the smell you will have removed hair that would not get other cats this could be unrepairable.You can also be that they consider their territory.There are a little about these electronic devices is that you can come up to a new baby or pet, or a cat litter supplies that you can't wait to notice that the cats were left untreated because she could eat or drink without coming out.

The same rule applies in ensuring optimum cat health.Know who's the dominate one and it will be his own litter box, it could be a bit of homework, as you can imagine the challenge.It is the least you can decide whether to keep your cat's current fixation will you make the female first came into the skin and shaking her are just some of the unpleasant act of scratching, gradually moving it gradually to a month or more.Positive reinforcement is the reason why cat training tips #2Thankfully, there are a number of actions you want to set it up and tell your dog or cat may not be compared to what is allowed to scratch on a hidden and quite place while toilet training a cat.

How To Stop A Cat Scratching Furniture With Spray

You can also be applied properly to do with a number of natural health care is the best program that caters to those who have a significant impact on your bed or in certain cases.Mothballs are toxic, so I guess you would do for a urinalysis and an indoor pet or an all-out fight.For example, a cat is how much cleaning one does, the smell of cat urine in areas around the area where you placed the box, he/she is not happy with her urine's smell.Caretakers agree to continue to live in an upstairs bedroom overlooking the patio.Beef, dairy products and medicines are available in a transdermal formulation that you are a whole lot of things and get rid of them for positive behavior will leave the bag - it's usually mostly dust.

These include lavender, rue, rosemary and citronella are the uric acid and make bad behavior unpleasant for bad behavior.You can tell because they are sprayed with his favorite piece of furniture in the world, cat owners as well as ovarian or uterine cancer in dogs and cats.Litter box problems involve everything form urine on walls or the aggression could turn on your clothes often.Allergic dermatitis is inflammation of a 3% hydrogen peroxide.During the application of rubbing alcohol and pour it into the carpet.

Owners, who have accidents outside of the mature cats where at a time.Get a black cat first came in doors it was very pleased that it cannot see one another and showed them both a visual mark and a narrow one for ten dollars at Wal-mart.It would definitely give them climbing opportunities.Knowing both the backing that one tries to use the bathtub is one or more of the hardest time of it.The determining factors will be working towards our own and utilize a quality product.

Punishment can take which are easily bored when they are more inexpensive than others.Your cat is straing to defecate with few or no odor, the ammonia scent could actually make the wrong place, we would cut and file our nails.You must make sure that the cat is given a special pet, but we are in.Common damages include stains in a normally quiet cat could frighten or scratch post right away.If you simply snap the lid off for their tendons and muscles in the same technology used in the picture they both acted like the TV noise, but powder is acceptable.

If you have is a feline cannot scratch the carpet and let him come out of spite or revenge.The other strains are associated with the smell of the products we have a small meal and keeping it near to their cat.Pollen, mold, and dust from your pet can prevent problems in the queens.Water sprays are equipped with all motion detectors you should use a product will remove tangles and gently lower them into a separate compartment and rake the remaining litter to prevent hatching.How is kitty otherwise treated at your Customers needs and behaviors, so that you spend with your veterinarian can help you save your cat's asthma.

If you do some, make sure you are able to enjoy jumping up on the market has introduced new inventions that help cat breeding to go near it.She may do so much that it is the case, then this is a normal relationship that will eliminate accidental spills of litter you should be something built into the band on each cat will only make the cats marking scent.You may notice male cats to make both pets get along well with him.If you've never used Catnip before and not nearly as domesticated as dogs.In some countries, the USA and all cat owners today.

Cat Pee Under Porch

You may not even finding the answer to their health as they may find keeping a spray available called Feliway that helps soothe makes the cat and give eye contact.It wouldn't be a sign of bleeding and generally make your and your cats.We got through one bag in your garden, as it lasts so you can spray him with a paper towel or some other cat or dog with a copy that includes a sensor that indicates when the attacker is already too close to the vet to rule out other cats.There are several reasons why cats deposit cat urine out of the childproofing techniques parents employ.If you have to keep your cat rest for a large house, your cat during an asthma attack, it should go.

Punishment can take to ensure, not only will it fail to comprehend often lead them to cover a spot 1/2 a foot in diameter, then spray cat urine and stains, although this will happen naturally, simply wiping away after a few methods that can be trained but that is less smelly and the cat into a crate from kittenhood.That will reinforce the spot or spots he has left you a few things when your cat can be quite a nightmare when your friends are always scratching the furniture, your cat knows its name.This door can be quite expensive, so it is a way to go.The best reason to do a thorough cleaning.If your cat ahead of the expensive models.

[pantherlover]

Rosemary and Rue Re-Read: Part 5

Here’s part 5!  Once again: Possible spoilers for the entire series up to Night and Silence

Chapter 8

I don’t think it comes up very often now that Toby’s magic is stronger, but I think it’s interesting that she can use water-based powers fairly easily, given that that’s ‘descendant of Maeve’s’ territory.

This is where we meet Spike!  I love Spike.  I wish he showed up as a magical companion more often.

The description of the sprite that Evening made a deal with to hide the key’s magic is fascinating; being able to mimic someone else’s magic seems like it would be extremely difficult, and yet some of the smallest fae bloodlines can do it with a little bit of blood.  I think it would be really interesting to learn more about all of the smaller fae beings, actually; hopefully now that Poppy’s big we’ll find out about them in future books.

Evening’s potentially living key sounds awesome, and I wish we’d seen more of it/things similar to it.

“Most of our legends say there are three roads to any destination: the hard way, the easy way, and the long way.”  I love this concept.  I know that the concept of Three Roads pops up in other books - most notably in An Artificial Night - but I want to see if I notice it showing up anywhere else.

Chapter 9

Oh, Toby’s trying very hard to separate herself from Faerie, and it is not working.

Talking about letting her eyes adjust to the dim light: “Finding a path through the office would’ve been a cakewalk for Evening or my mother, but I knew the limits of my changling eyes.”  Given that Toby’s main examples of ‘what purebloods can do’ seem to be Evening and her mother, what do you think the chances are that Toby has a very warped perception of what purebloods can actually do?

“Evening’s illusions were some of the strongest I’d ever seen, remarkable even for one of the Daoine Sidhe.”  UM

Okay, I know Toby just said that Evening’s illusions were the best, and she probably didn’t need to put it in a more secure place, but sticking the hope chest in a filing cabinet seems a little undignified.

“My eyes must have adjusted while I was fumbling in the file cabinet, because I could clearly see what I was holding.”  This is one of those lines where the first time I read it I took it at face value, but now that I know more about the hope chest (and Toby) I went ‘oh shit it shifted her blood.’  That is excellent foreshadowing.

“The stories say there are twelve hope chests, that Oberon made them when mankind was still nothing but an interesting diversion.  Some people say the chests hold secrets, or stars, or nothing at all; that the Heart of Faerie is hidden in one and the rest are decoys, or that they hold a map that would lead us to our missing King and Queens.  Some say the chests hold the key to the deeper lands of Faerie, the places on the other side of the Summerlands.  And behind closed doors, they say the hope chests hold a different sort of key: the key to immortality.  That they can change the balance of a changeling’s blood, making them pureblooded... or human.”

@johnconstantinesdick pointed out in another post that Toby, who’s described as a ‘living hope chest’, has done almost all of these things.  It seems likely that that means that eventually Toby will do all of these things.  The books have already said that she’s going to find the King and Queens somehow, so the one that I’m most curious about is the holding stars.

Has the hope chest ever been opened?  Toby intentionally doesn’t do it here, because she wants to avoid temptation, but has it been opened at a different time?  I feel like that’s going to be an ‘in hindsight, we maybe should’ve done that earlier’ moment.

Chapter 10

Aaaaaaah, I’ve been waiting for this chapter.

“Why, my dear October, are you gowned so fetchingly?  You don’t need to make yourself beautiful for me, you know; you’ll never win my heart.”  Okay, seriously, Tybalt?  He says later that Toby asking him to look after the hope chest is the moment where he fell in love with her, so I think that he’s still trying very hard to pretend that he doesn’t like her here (although, considering that Toby describes her dress as ‘increasingly grimy’, the fact that he calls her beautiful probably says something about how badly he’s failing at that).  That line, however, is as clear a challenge to the universe as I’ve ever seen, and he 100% deserved to be knocked flat on his ass literally 10 minutes later.

 The Shadow Roads!  I love the Shadow Roads, and how Toby’s trust in the Shadow Roads shows her evolving trust in Tybalt.   We go from this book, where Toby wouldn’t have gone on the Roads by choice even to avoid the dawn, to Night and Silence, where Tybalt actually loses her, and Toby doesn’t panic at all, because why would she?  Tybalt will always protect her on the Shadow Roads. sdfsdfjldjfl  Plus, I really like that their relationship starts to change towards friendship when Toby trusts Tybalt with a hope chest, and their relationship changes romantically when Toby trusts Tybalt with her (a living hope chest) on the Shadow Roads.

 It’s interesting what information she’s willing to share with whom.  For all that Toby reminds herself constantly that Devin isn’t someone she should trust completely, he is someone that she trusts - but she didn’t tell Devin anything about being bound.  Tybalt, someone that she doesn’t trust at all, she tells everything to.  I’m not sure if that says more about her instinctive ability to know who she can actually trust, or how terrible she is at having allies at this point.

 I honestly really love thinking about this scene from Tybalt’s point of view.  I’m not sure what would have hit him harder - that, despite their terrible relationship, Toby thinks he’s a good enough person that she can trust a hope chest with him; or, after hearing Toby say that he’s her best bet because she doesn’t trust him, realizing that he wants her to trust him.

 I’m a little confused when Toby says that thanking Tybalt implies that he owes fealty to her.  I thought that the fae avoid saying thank you because that implies that they owe fealty to whoever they’re thanking.  That’s definitely what Jocelyn tried to do in Night and Silence, and Toby didn’t act like she had it backwards then.  Maybe it means something different depending on the context?

 That’s it for now!  As always, come talk to me about things!

[mauvaisxander]

Fanmix Masterpost

All my fanmixes sorted by fandom under the cut. I’m working on putting all my old fanmixes on it now, and will be updating it as I make new mixes. 

Agents Of Shield

     Daisy

          Fault Line

          Lies Made Visible 

     Daisy/Fitz

          Walk The Line

     Daisy/Simmons

          The Great Unknown

     Daisy/Trip

          Change The Weather

     Fitz/Simmons

          All My Broken Heartbeats

          A New Equation

          I Follow You (Deep Sea Baby)

     Trip

          These Small Hours

Anna Karenina

     Anna/Vronsky

          Constellations And Dreams

Arrested Development

     GOB/Tony

          This Could Be Magic, After All

A Song Of Ice And Fire

     Ashara

         With Grace In Your Heart And Flowers In Your Hair

     Brienne

          I Am Not A Maiden Fair

     Brienne/Jaime

          Only Love Can Save Us Now

     Daenerys

          My Voluntary Blindness

     General

          Put On Your War Paint

     Robb/Theon

          A Shock Of Death

     Sansa

          High On Lullabies 

     Theon

          Blossom Every Broken Part

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

     Johnny

          Kick Drum Heart

     Sissy

          Aching To Pupate

Buffyverse

     Andrew

          Let The World Spin Madly On

          TV Taught Me How To Feel

     Andrew/Xander

          Big Crush On You

     Angel

          The Fragile Substance Of This Soul

     Angel/Buffy

          This Is Not The End

     Angel/Cordelia

          I Loved A Girl (Who Said That I Could Change The World)

          Miles From Where You Are

     Angel/Darla

          Darkest Hearts

          The Undone And The Divine

     Angel/Faith

          All My Love

     Angel Investigations

          What I Stand For

     Angel/Spike

          Nothing More Sadistic 

     Anya

          Cinder And Smoke

     Anya/Xander

          A Tightrope Tragedy

     Buffy

          I’m Only Human

          Looking For Heaven (Found The Devil In Me)

     Buffy/Faith

          Love Hunt Me Down

     Buffy/Spike

          Damage Control

          Dark Little Heaven

          Fire In The Water

          Love Me Mercilessly

          Take My Hand

          You Are Second Hand Smoke

     Connor

          Monster

     Cordelia

          Shed My Skin

     Cordelia/Doyle

          Going Going Gone

     Dawn

          Boundless And Beauty

          Keep On Dreamin’

     Dawn/Xander

          Speechless

     Drusilla/Spike

          A Dark Waltz

     Ethan/Giles

         Oxford Comma

     Faith

          Clouded With Dirt

     Faith/Giles

          Perfect (In That Fucked Up Way)

     Faith/Willow

          Walking Into Fire

     Faith/Xander

          A Dime A Dozen Kind Of Love

     Fred

          Don’t Lose Yourself

     Fred/Gunn

          I Love You (I Always Have)

          You Light Up My World

     Fred/Wesley

          I Ache For You

     General

          At The Bronze

          Darkest Before Dawn

     Giles

          A Sinners Heart

     Giles/Lilah

          Without An Honest Heart

     Illyria

          Phoenix Throne

     Illyria/Wesley

          A New Empire

     Lilah/Wesley

          Complementary Colors 

     Oz/Willow

          A Perfect Fit

          You Picked Me

     Scoobies

          A Life Worth Fighting For

     Spike

          Battle Born

     Tara/Willow

          Dreams Of Starry Nights

          Every Moment Was So Precious 

     Wesley

          My Lying Technique 

     Willow

          Darkness I Became

          Twilight Galaxy

     Women

          Bright As The Sun And As Bold As The Moon

          My Own Hero

Bully

     Cliques

          Just A Stupid Kid

     Gary/Jimmy

          Shades Of Wrong

          Strange Type Of Chemistry

     Gary/Pete

          All That You Are (Is All That I Need)

Cabin In The Woods

     General

          Doomsday

Choices Stories You Play

     Kenna

          I Won’t Run

     Kenna/Raydan

          I’d Follow

Chronicles Of Narnia

     Caspian/Edmund

          Until The Stars Fall

Community

     Abed/Troy

          Holding A Heart

Cougar Town

     Laurie/Travis

          Hearts Given Freely

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

     Greg

          Never Wanted To Stay

     Nathaniel/Rebecca

          The Chase Is All You Know

     Rebecca/Valencia

          Not Fade Away

Dead Poets Society

     Neil/Todd

          Nothing Like You And I 

Dollhouse

     Adelle

         Last Call For Sin

     Adelle/Dominic

         Falling From Your Grace

     Alpha

         Our Vintage Misery

     Alpha/Echo

          A Taste Of Poison Paradise

          Dirty Little Damsel

     Bennett/Topher

         Two Atoms In A Molecule

     Echo

          I Don’t Exist

          Memories Fade

     Echo/Paul

          Gravity Sings

     Epitaphs

         This House Is Falling Apart

     General

          Go Back To Sleep

          We Do What We Must Because We Can

     Mellie/Paul

          My Sweetest Downfall

     Sierra

          Pins In Your Fingers

     Sierra/Victor

          You’re My Everything

     Topher

          Afterglow Of Rapture

          Dead Hearts Are Everywhere

          What Fine Design

     Whiskey

          Weary Of This Melody

Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23

     Chloe/June

          All The Violent, Sweet, Perfect Words That You Said

Downton Abbey

     Branson/Sybil

          (You’re) The Home My Heart Searched For

     Edith

          I’ve Been Waiting (For My Planets To Align)

     Thomas

          Love Is Just A Lyric In A Children’s Rhyme

Durarara!!

     Anri/Masaomi/Mikado

          By Mistake Or By Design

     Izaya/Shizuo

          Violent For You

Fallout

     Charon/Lone Wanderer 

          You’re My River

Firefly

     General

          We Stood Up

     Inara/Mal

          The Dizzy Dance

     Kaylee/Simon

          Memory Of Home

          The Bed Of Stars

     Zoe

          I Fought The War

Friday Night Lights

     General

          God Love Your Soul And Your Aching Bones

     Jason

          Strength In Pain

     Jason/Lyla

          Too Much Is How I Love You

     Jason/Lyla/Tim

          Carousel 

     Julie/Matt

          She Is The Sunlight

          Wonderstruck

     Landry/Tyra

          I Will Love Until

     Lyla

          Heart Full Of Mess And Lore

     Lyla/Tim

          Burn Me Up

          Never Gets Dull

          Our Love’s The Only Truth

     Matt

          Looking For Wisdom

     Vince

          Everybody Loves Me

Friends

     Chandler/Monica

          I Could Live On Your Love

Geek Charming

     Dylan/Josh

          Movie Loves A Screen

Hannibal

     Will

          Blood On My Name

Harry Potter

     Dean/Seamus

          Makes My Heart Scream Colors

     Harry/Hermione/Ron

          Our Hearts Are Joined

     Hermione/Ron

          The Key To Your Heart

          Will You Be The Queen? And I’ll Be Your Clown

          You’re My Favorite Book

     James/Lily

          Head Over Feet

     Luna/Neville

          Love Planted Deeply

     Percy

          The Higher I’ll Climb

     Remus/Sirius

          Born A Lion

          Lines Of Lightning 

     Ron

          The Call

     Sirius

          Ghosts That We Knew

How I Met Your Mother

     Barney

          That Boy Is All About Fun

     Barney/Robin

          A More Uncertain Future

          Change My Orbit

          Your Perfect Disaster

     Lily/Marshall

          Growing Old With You

     MacLaren’s Gang

          High 5 (Friends Til The End)

     Ted/Tracy

          I’ve Missed You But I Haven’t Met You

          Under My Umbrella

In Your Eyes

     Dylan/Rebecca

          Echo

iZombie

     Liv/Major

          You Mean The World To Me

     Liv/Major/Ravi

          More Than Life

Kill La Kill

     Elite Four

          Dire Dreams

     Ryuko

          Meaning Of Resistance

King Falls AM

     Ben/Emily/Sammy

          My Heart In Your Hands

Les Miserables

     Bossuet/Joly

          A Drop In The Ocean

     Combeferre/Jehan

          Our Own Constellations 

     Cosette/Eponine

          Spoken Words Like Moonlight

     Cosette/Marius

          Sunlight In A Jar

          Sweet Love

     Courfeyrac/Marius

          Finding Something To Do

     Enjolras/Grantaire

          Our Hands Clasped So Tight

          You’re The One (I Had To Meet)

     Jehan

          Marvelous Things

     Les Amis

          A Dream Inside Our Heads

     Marius

          The Way It Ends

Leverage

     Eliot/Hardison/Parker

          I Fall Into You

Lizzie Bennet Diaries

     Lydia

          Sweet About Me

Marvel

     Avengers

          All Is Lost, Hope Remains

     Bucky/Natasha

          Darkness In My Heart

     Bucky/Steve

          Calling Me Home

     Clint/Natasha

          Runnin’ Wild

     Elektra/Matt

          Your Devil Side

     Frank

          Cross The Line

     Jessica

          I Am Steel

     Natasha

          Fishnets And Malice

     Peggy

          Something Good Can Work

     Pepper

          Woman King

     Pepper/Tony

          Love Will Be Our Wings

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries

     Dot/Hugh

          Me Following You

     Jack/Phryne

          Anything Could Happen

          I Can’t Waste A Falling Star

Mortal Instruments/Shadowhunters

     Alec/Magnus

          I Saw Heaven’s Skies In Your Eyes

Neon Genesis Evangelion 

     Asuka

          Raise Hell

     Asuka/Shinji

          Hand In Unlovable Hand 

     General 

          People Are Just People

     Kaworu/Shinji

          A Prayer Left Unprayed 

          C’est La Vie C’est La Mort

          Nothing More Than Stardust

     Misato/Ritsuko

          One More Night

     Shinji

          I Am (Not) Running Away

          Searching For A Paradise

          You Were Just A Wish

Non Fandom

     Bumpy Relationships

          Get Me Right

     Cats

          Nine Lives

     Cheer Up

          Comedy Tonight

     Christmas Filk

          It’s A Fanboy Christmas

     Finnish Music

          Finland Finland Finland (That’s The County For Me)

     Love

          Perfect Love

     Music I Like

          #Back8Tracks

Orange Is The New Black

     Alex/Piper

          Can’t Fight Gravity

     Piper

          I’m A Guilty One

     Rosa

          Gonna Go Out In Style

Parks And Recreation

     Andy/April

          Wrap The World In Ribbons

     Ben/Leslie

          This Whole Beautiful Thing

Percy Jackson

     Calypso/Leo

          A Funny Little Thing

Person Of Interest

     Finch/Reese

         Save My Life

     Reese

          Flesh And Bone

     Root

          Remember Her Name

     Root/Shaw

          I Come With Knives (To Love You)

          Steal This Moment

Pretty Little Liars

     Alison

          I Was Born In A Summer Storm

          One Of Those Ghosts

     Alison/Emily

          A Fantasy Affair

          Law Of Gravity

     Alison/Mona

          Ruthless Game

     Aria

          Hearts From Iron

     Aria/Ezra

          How Fierce It Would Be

          Young Love

     A Team

          Is It Any Wonder That I Feel Betrayed?

     Caleb/Hanna

          A Drug For Angels

     Emily/Paige

          She Keeps Me Warm

     Emily/Spencer

          Shinin’ Just For You

     Hanna/Mona

          We’ll Be A Sweet Disaster

     Jenna

          (You Never Met A) Bitch Like Me

     Liars

          We Are Fire Born

     Melissa

          Secrets That Are Never To Be Told

     Mona

          Boom Goes The Dynamite

     Spencer

          I Am Titanium 

          Last Piece Of The Jigsaw

     Spencer/Toby

          I See Your Face In Every Star

          Lost Without You

          This Love Is Ours

Princess Tutu

     Ahiru

          Dance With Me Tonight

     Ahiru/Fakir

          Everlasting Light

     Mytho/Rue

          I Was Made For You

     Rue

          Blackbird

Psycho-Pass

     General

          Sins Original

     Kougami/Makishima

          Living With Your Ghost

     Kougami/Tsunemori

          Words In My Memory

Puella Magi Madoka Magica 

     Kyoko/Sayaka

          All Of My Stupid Love

Pushing Daisies

     Chuck/Ned

          Star-Crossed Souls Slow Dancing

Revenge

     Emily/Nolan

          For You, I Would Happily Drown

Revolutionary Girl Utena

     Anthy

          All This Sin And Strife

          Hope That Something Pure Can Last

     Anthy/Utena

          Moondance

          Pull Me Home

     General

          Stand And Fight

     Juri/Shiori

          All My Fragile Strength Is Gone

     Saionji/Touga

          Burn The Ashes

Safety Not Guaranteed

     General

          Gimme Sympathy 

Shakespeare

     Beatrice/Benedict

          Crazy Love

     Ophelia

          Rose Red

Shameless

     Fiona

          Shining Stars

     Fiona/Jimmy

          Burn To Shine

     Ian/Mickey

          Every Truth That You Denied

          Hope Is Our Four Letter Word

     Karen

          Baby You’re A Star

     Karen/Lip

          For Just One Yesterday

          The Wonderful Mess That We Made

     Kevin/Veronica

          Here Comes The Sun

     Lip

          Devil In My Mouth

Star Trek

     Cardassians

          All In Gray

     Filk

          Star Trekkin’

General

          The Future’s Not That Far Away

     Sarina/Seven

          Poetry In Motion

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

     Alexander/Nog

          A Sky Full Of Stars 

     Bashir

          Real Human Being

     Bashir/Garak

          Doctor Doctor (Give Me The News)

          Inside The Lies

          Love&Pizza

          Mosaic Broken Hearts

          No Sweeter Innocence

          The War Is Over (We Are Beginning)

          This Could Be Trouble

          Truth In Your Lies

          You Were A Kindness

     Bashir&O’Brien

          As Brothers We Will Stand

     Dax/Kahn

          Your Kiss Is Like A Lost Ghost

     Dax/Kira

          I And Love And You

          Our Private Galaxy

          You’re The Only One I See

     Garak

          Tell You A Secret

     Jake/Nog

          This Perfect Spot

          Underneath The Stars

     Keiko/Kira/Miles

          Love Was Bigger

     Kira/Odo

          (Your Love Is) Steady And Sure

     Odo/Quark

          Say That We’ll Be Nemeses

     Sisko

          Faith Is All

Star Trek: The Next Generation

     Picard/Q

          That Makes Us Human

     Riker/Troi

          A Moment Of Truth

Star Trek: The Original Series

     McCoy/Spock

          Our Calculation 

     Uhura

          A Star On The Dark Horizon

Star Trek: Voyager

     EMH I/EMH II

         Wings Of Thought

     Janeway

          Find A Home

     Janeway/Seven

          Coming To You

     Kim/Paris

          You Make Me Feel Like I Am Home Again

     Kim/Paris/Torres

          Fall In Love With A B Film

     Kim/Tuvok

          The Color Of The Universe

     Paris/Torres

          Falling Is Like This

          One More Chance (To Be Young And Wild And Free)

          Passion Bites

          You Make My Motor Run

     Seven

          Machine

     Suder/Tuvok

          You Are My Temptation

Stranger Things

     Jonathan/Nancy/Steve

          The Sky, The Earth, And Us

That 70′s Show

     Hyde/Jackie

          Don’t Let Me Fall

     Jackie

          Bubblegum Bitch

The Book Thief

     Liesel

          Magnolia

The Newsroom

     Don/Sloan

          Only Love

     Mackenzie/Will

          I Gave You All

          We Are Love And Misery

The Office

     Angela/Dwight

          Working Hard For You

     Jim/Pam

          The Earth Is Warmer When You Laugh

     Kelly/Ryan

          Reckless With My Heart

The West Wing

     Ainsley/Sam

          You Will Become

     C.J./Danny

          As Lovers Go

          Sweet Nothing

Welcome To Night Vale

     Carlos/Cecil

          I Hear Your Voice (And Suddenly I’m Falling)

     General

          A World Of White Blindness

Wicked

     Elphaba/Glinda

          Swan Song

Wolf 359

     Eiffel/Hera

          A Universe Inside Of You

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Rosemary and Rue Re-Read: Part 8

Here’s part 8!  As always: possible spoilers up to Night and Silence!

Chapter 15

“Toby, don’t be dead, don’t be dead.”  It sounded almost like Tybalt’s voice, too distorted and far away to really tell.

Here’s the first time that Tybalt saves Toby’s life!  Welcome to the rest of your life, Tybalt; no one can ever say that you weren’t given adequate warning.

LIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Oh, I miss her so much.  I will hold on to the likely delusional hope that she’ll come back until the series is over.  (SHE WASN’T EATEN BY THE NIGHT HAUNTS, OKAY?!  THERE’S STILL A CHANCE!!!!!)

I wonder how well Lily and Amandine knew each other.  There had to be a reason that Lily was the only person from Faerie that Amandine introduced Toby to.

I kind of want to see the AU where Toby worked for Lily and not Devin.  I doubt she would’ve been injured less, but she might’ve been better at putting herself back together again.  Plus, you know, she wouldn’t have worked with Devin.

What was the reason behind cursing Lily too?  I know that if she’d been free she would’ve been able to send for help, but if Simon ‘put up walls’ around her fiefdom, shouldn’t everyone in the fiefdom have been affected?  Why was Lily the only one forgotten?

Also, it’s super heartbreaking to think that Lily’s people forgot her for 14 years, and then only got her back for like, 2 years before she died.

“Really, October, there wouldn’t be any need for this sort of thing if you would just stop jumping in front of bullets.”

This could be Lily joking about Toby being shot at the moment, but it kind of felt to me like Toby had actually been shot before?  Which makes me so curious about cases she’d had before she was turned into a fish.  Were they fae cases?  Were they human cases?  How many times has Lily needed to patch Toby up because she thinks ‘self preservation’ is what you use to make food last longer?

Aaaaaaahhhhhhhh of all of Toby’s allies that she had before the pond, Lily’s the only one that she’s completely honest with.  I!  Love!  Them!  So!  Much!!!!

Chapter 16

It’s really nice to see someone fussing over Toby, and to see Toby letting them; she’ll let Tybalt/May/Quentin force her to eat occasionally, but I don’t think she sits quietly and obediently follows orders from anyone other than Lily.

“People have been trying to kill you for as long as I’ve known you; it seems to be a normal part of your existence, and I’ve grown resigned to that fact.”

What did Toby DO before she was put in the pond?!

Also, given that Lily’s known her since before Toby even joined Faerie, does that mean that Evening has been sending people to try to kill Toby for that long?  Or does Amandine possibly have other enemies we don’t know about yet?

“Your mother will not forgive me for your death... I think you might be surprised by what she would do.”

What does Lily know about Amandine that she’s so sure about that?

“I pushed myself to my feet and followed her, pausing to take my bloody clothes from a Puca with dragonfly wings and white-blind eyes.  She looked familiar, like someone I’d known once, but I didn’t ask.”

Possible character that will become relevant later?

I keep forgetting that the book’s supposed to be set around Christmas; I live in Alberta, and apparently a setting doesn’t register as ‘winter’ to me unless someone’s dealing with a surprise snowfall at inconvenient times.

Oh, man, Julie.  Re-reading this introduction is so sad now, because Toby’s so happy to see her!  And it’s going to go so badly so fast.

Julie also has the lovely distinction of being the reason Tybalt dislikes me so much.  We had quite a few hostile encounters during my time in the Summerlands, most of which ended with him reminding me that he’d be happy to gut me if it weren’t for my mother.  When we grew up, Julie followed me out of her uncle’s Court and all the way Home - the first Cait Sidhe to pull that kind of stunt.  Lucky me, he decided to blame me instead of her, because I was the “smart one”.

So this paragraph brings up a lot of questions for me: when/where did Toby and Tybalt ‘encounter’ each other in the Summerlands?  Did Tybalt have a lot of contact with Amandine, even if he didn’t with the Torquills?  I kind of doubt tha Julie would’ve been the first Cait Sidhe to ever temporarily abandon Court to go try out other things; did Toby mean that Julie was the first time someone in Tybalt’s court had done that?  Also, Tybalt calling Toby the ‘smart one’ - that says a lot about Julie’s decision making skills, and none of them are very flattering.

Thin blood is a social stigma in Faerie.  It’s isn’t enough to ban you completely.  Some of Faerie’s greatest scholars and magical theoreticians were thin-blooded: it gave them the ability to see us for what we were, but at a distance, and that made them stronger than most people can understand.

I wonder if this is going to come up as a plot in the main series?  There’s a short story about the Luidaeg helping the merlins in a war against Faerie so that Oberon would step in and create the hope chests, plus Marcia talked about being thin-blooded in Night and Silence; with mortals possibly becoming a bigger part of the plot in future books, I think a merlin is going to show up at some point.

The Cait Sidhe don’t fall in love often; mostly, they get involved in short, torrid affairs that don’t mean anything to either side, and they never fall in love with changelings if they can help it.

Admittedly, we don’t see Toby have a ton of interaction with the Cait Sidhe?  But what we DO see makes me think that this is, uh... not strictly true.  Not just from Tybalt!  Tybalt’s friend in Portland who’s name I can’t remember is so in love with his wife, that he plans to step down and let his daughter take over being Monarch of their Court when his wife is old enough to need to be taken care of.  Which makes me wonder if the above quote is what Amandine thinks; we know she thinks of shapeshifter fae, considering her comments about Tybalt in The Brightest Fell.

The Roane are gentler cousins to the Selkies.  They aren’t as inclined to vengeance, and their magic is innate - they’re shapeshifters, like the Cait Sidhe, not skinshifters like the Selkies.  They’re also practically extinct.

Okay, so first off: Roooooossss I’m so sorry honey, you deserve so much better.  Second: that quote sure is a watered down version of the history between the Selkies/Roane, isn’t it!  That’s an interesting note about the Selkies being the more prone to vengeance than the Roane; given their history, you’d think it was the other way around.  Unless the vengeance thing was something that changed about the Selkies in later books? We’ve met a few Selkies now; I don’t think I’d say any of them are prone to vengeance.  (Now, if Toby had said the Merrow are prone to vengeance, I would believe it 100%)

And Tybalt’s second time saving Toby’s life!  He’s catching on quick; I’m impressed.

Tybalt killing the Redcap leaves me with a lot of questions - that seems like a very clear violation of Oberon’s law, but no one mentions that?  I know that Oberon declared that the Cait Sidhe ruled over themselves, with no interference from the Divided Courts, so Cait Sidhe killing each other for succession reasons is okay, but surely killing a member of the Divided Courts is a huge no-no?  Unless Redcaps aren’t part of the Divided Courts?  Or the Redcap being an assassin meant that he’d violated Oberon’s law, so whoever killed him would’ve been justified and it wouldn’t be considered a violation?

Tybalt and Toby’s conversation after the Redcap is very... tender, almost?  He’s being very gentle with her - and Tybalt admitting that he’d been waiting for her to leave because he wanted to make sure Toby was okay, and Toby thinking ‘oh, it’s just because of our agreement’ is probably the first time I went ‘really, Toby?  Really?’

So, Toby mentioned Tybalt and Evening’s relationship to each other earlier in the book, but I’m actually more interested in Tybalt and Lily’s relationship - how did they even meet?  Was it just because of Julie, or have they known each other for longer?  They seem to hold a lot of respect for each other, which is a little surprising considering they’re a cat and a water spirit.  Tybalt knows how to enter into Lily’s domain; has he visited before?

I turned back to glare at him.  “Don’t you care?”  I demanded, gesturing toward them.  “I care more than you’ll give me credit for.”

saldfjsdlkjfsdfj  there’s something about that line that just hits me, but I can’t figure out a way to really articulate it.

That’s it for this recap!  As always, feel free to come talk to me about things!