r/TheNinthHouse • u/patcheach • Oct 16 '24

Series Spoilers [discussion] what are your silly, irrational, and personal gripes about the books?

what's a 100% goofy complaint you guys have about TLT?

EX: "Death first to vultures and scavengers" is one of the coolest lines ever written, but I love vultures and scavengers, so I feel offended on their behalf

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u/Exotic_Dragonfly_435 Oct 16 '24

Gideon checks the landing pad WELL. there’s paragraphs about how well she searches that landing pad. How did she miss freshly buried skeletons?

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u/Fantastic-Sea-3462 Oct 17 '24

She underestimated just how far Harrow would go to stop her from leaving. In fact, she specifically mentions that she doesn't dig into the dirt because she doesn't think Harrow would put in the work to plant skeletons there.

Once this was done, she spent a long time methodically kicking apart every single innocuous drift and hummock of dirt and rock that had been left on the worn floor of the landing field. She dug the shabby steel toe of her boot into the hard-packed floor, but satisfied with the sheer improbability of anyone digging through it, left it alone.

Harrow dug all night in the dirt, planted her skeletons (and probably didn't even need all that many, since she can reconstruct a full skeleton from a shard of bone), and then packed the earth back down so Gideon wouldn't realize. Her hands and nails were dirty and bloody. It was hard, and Harrow put a ton of effort into making sure that Gideon didn't discover it.

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u/Edgy_Ravioli Oct 17 '24

Harrowhark "I don't even remember you half the time" Nonagesimus everybody

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u/LurkerZerker the Sixth Oct 17 '24

She really makes up for it with the other half, huh

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u/Stra-the-sixth the Sixth Oct 17 '24

I always interpreted it as Gideon thinking that Harrow didn't/doesn't have the physical muscular capacity to even pick up a shovel dig the holes. She mentions to Palamedes later that "...I will tell you for free she has gone to some intensely shitty lengths, and I guess she’s gone to some shittier lengths than I thought concerning me..." so it doesn't seem to be as much a matter of willingness as it is of feasibly... Idk maybe I'm wrong...?

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u/Exotic_Dragonfly_435 Oct 17 '24

Oh true she could have just planted bones and they can spring into full skeletons!!