"Yes," she says. "That's exactly how I would interrupt the term Second Death; the extinction of the spirit."
"I am not dead," she adds, absently. "But I have certain experiments in mind which might consume my very soul if I fail... and Gideon would have no one to slay, nothing to fight again. But why address us both? Surely, then, the prophecy would be addressed entirely to her?"
She sounds remarkably off-hand about these experiments.
"Your prophecy warned Lan Wangji he would lose Wei Wuxian. That I would endure or witness a Second Death. That Gideon would weep and bury--her. If not for that pronoun I might think all three prophecies referred to a second death for Wei Wuxian. And since I did not hear the prophecy myself--"
She throws her hands in the air, growing more agitated. "What if you said dry her golden eyes and were misheard? Have I, Harrowhark, buried her? It is untenable."
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"I am not dead," she adds, absently. "But I have certain experiments in mind which might consume my very soul if I fail... and Gideon would have no one to slay, nothing to fight again. But why address us both? Surely, then, the prophecy would be addressed entirely to her?"
She sounds remarkably off-hand about these experiments.
"Your prophecy warned Lan Wangji he would lose Wei Wuxian. That I would endure or witness a Second Death. That Gideon would weep and bury--her. If not for that pronoun I might think all three prophecies referred to a second death for Wei Wuxian. And since I did not hear the prophecy myself--"
She throws her hands in the air, growing more agitated. "What if you said dry her golden eyes and were misheard? Have I, Harrowhark, buried her? It is untenable."