For the remote chance that one might change everything.
( she speaks in the grand scheme of things, as a young woman who had from the dawn of her youth scoured the darkest corners of the dusty, decrepit libraries of the Ninth House for whatever necromantic secrets she could raid for her own use.
but, considering what they were looking at... harrow's expression sours beneath the dark canopy of her hood. it was foolish, just as the whole accursed thing was. )
...Not that that is applicable here.
( she turns up her nose to it, face a mask of haughty derision painted in alabaster and charcoal. ) I would sooner sink myself to the deepest pit of the drowned ground floor. Though if you wish to ascertain whether or not the thing is a screeching death trap, I would not stop you.
( were this any other situation, harrow would just make a bridge made of bones and be done with it. but her resources are limited (for perhaps the first time in her life, as bones were easy to come by in the Ninth House and in Canaan House as well). but regardless of what she had just said, she really didn't want to end up taking a second swim in the inky black water below. )
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( she speaks in the grand scheme of things, as a young woman who had from the dawn of her youth scoured the darkest corners of the dusty, decrepit libraries of the Ninth House for whatever necromantic secrets she could raid for her own use.
but, considering what they were looking at... harrow's expression sours beneath the dark canopy of her hood. it was foolish, just as the whole accursed thing was. )
...Not that that is applicable here.
( she turns up her nose to it, face a mask of haughty derision painted in alabaster and charcoal. ) I would sooner sink myself to the deepest pit of the drowned ground floor. Though if you wish to ascertain whether or not the thing is a screeching death trap, I would not stop you.
( were this any other situation, harrow would just make a bridge made of bones and be done with it. but her resources are limited (for perhaps the first time in her life, as bones were easy to come by in the Ninth House and in Canaan House as well). but regardless of what she had just said, she really didn't want to end up taking a second swim in the inky black water below. )