Chapter 41
It's 10 pm and Cel thinks she should be sleeping. She's still studying Wyrdmarks and she wonders how they can be powerful when magic is supposed to be gone (Evil King Papa, duh. he's MAGIC).
Cel still isn't telling Nacho like, anything, because screw logic. She still thinks that Nehemiah is probs innocent because "Nehemia is one of the good ones."
We know that how? I mean, seriously. Cel should know better than anyone how appearances can be deceiving. But no, she has some vague sense that Nehemiah is good so of course she isn't to blame for anything. She is right, though, that Nehemiah could have any number of reasons to hide her language skills.
She wouldn't target Celaena, not when they'd been friends.
Cel, I'd like to introduce you to PETTER 'WORMTAIL' PETTIGREW OKAY.
How about SARUMAN OF MANY COLORS?
Okay so they didn't do the Many Colors thing in the movies
OR BRAINWASHED AMNESIAC BUCKY BARNES?
HOW ABOUT FAITH LEHANE?
HEY YOU KNOW WHO ELSE BETRAYED PEOPLE HE LOVES? EDMUND PEVENSIE.
YOU KNOW, WHAT ABOUT THIS DOUCHEBAG FROM THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO.
AND THE MASTER OF ALL LIES...
Dude pretty much TELLS everyone he's scheming and they're still surprised like wtf.
AND LEST WE FORGET THE MOST WELL KNOWN TRAITOR TO HIS FRIEND?
Judas, you smell like asparagus
Good Lord, no wonder Celery got betrayed and sent to the salt mines.
She finds the Wyrdmarks that were by the dead bodies, and she discovers that someone tried to summon a "ridderack" by drawing the symbols with the victim's blood. So I guess not gargoyles? Kind of a bummer.
She also figures out that the ridderack came through the Wyrdgates and once again she's thinking it's Nehemiah? What the hell. Make up your goddamn mind.
Unless Nehemia was here to start something bigger--unless she didn't want to make sure the king spared Eyllwe at all. Unless she wanted what few dared whisper: rebellion.
Are you fucking stupid or something. A) YOU ALREADY ARE PRETTY 100% SURE SHE'S WORKING WITH REBELS OF COURSE SHE WANTS REBELLION and B) I HATE YOU.
Anyway, she thinks that by killing the champions, Nehemia might be trying to start a bigger rebellion than just pockets of people fighting.
By... killing competitors... of a secret competition...
Also apparently Cel has actually seen Nehemiah's rooms because her guards suck ass. Also, Cel finally fucking figures it out that the beast has been summoned and hidden in the secret passageways.
Celaena grunted as she pushed the chest to the side and folded the tapestry back from the wall. Just as it had two months ago, a cold, damp breeze leaked through the cracks, but it smelled nothing of roses.
Where the hell did roses come from? Roses weren't mentioned the last time she went through the passage way (and I checked).
Bah. Anywhosit, she figures out that a murder is going to happen that night or the next day due to the timing of the previous murders.
She goes through the passageways. There's a line break that usually signals a scene change here, but it's absolutely pointless because she's just going down the hallway like she had decided.
As she's going down, she thinks escape is pointless since she's so close to winning. Well, I would think knowing this escape route would be extremely advantageous since she can spy and do other shit...
I mean, I'm not assassin trained.
She sees footprints in the dust and it doesn't occur to her to check to see if it's her own footprints (BECAUSE WE KNOW SHE TOOK THESE PASSAGEWAYS EARLIER GOD WHAT A GOOBER), so she goes down towards Elena's tomb. she can hear a man chanting.
It's probs Cain.
She can see a greenish light in a room, so she goes towards it. She doesn't recognize the language speaking. Cel puts down her candle and looks inside the room.
And inside the small chamber, kneeling before a darkness so black that it seemed poised to devour the world, was Cain.
Called it.
Chapter 42
For what it's worth, Cel isn't really surprised. She realizes that Cain's been getting bigger because he was stealing strength from the victims. Cel watches as he continues to summon the ridderack.
It was something out of an ancient god's nightmares. Its hairless gray skin was stretched tightly across a misshapen head, displaying a gaping mouth filled with black fangs.
. . . It's vaguely human body sank onto it's haunches, and it slid its long front arms across the stone floor. The stone whined under the claws.
That's all the description we get, at least for the time being. C'mon, ancient god's nightmares? This is like werewolf Lupin from Harry Potter.
Not as much an eldritch abomination as just kind of sad.
The amulet Cel is wearing pulses, and so she steps back. The Ridderack either hears or smells her, and Cain speaks to her. He tells her it wasn't supposed to be her that was murdered, but he's not going to waste a perfectly good victim.
I don't know why he didn't just kill her to begin with since he figured out who she was, but whatevs.
Cain manages to steal her shiv, because he has superhuman speed and strength. Cain taunts her a bit, and it's awesome because he's like "lol bye" at the end. He leaves her alone with the ridderack. By the way, we have no idea what kind of room they're in. Cel starts screaming for Cain to let her out, but of course he doesn't.
The ridderack is sizing her up, and she wonders why he's not attacking immediately. She realizes it wants her alive. Also she thinks about how terrible it would be if she died where no one (except Cain) could find her.
. . . where she'd never get the chance to tell Nehemia she had been wrong.
Dude, Nehemiah Tyger doesn't even know you were accusing her of anything. She was just a bitch. I'm pretty sure she'll get over it. Cel also remembers that Elena told her to look to her right (man she's lucky that everything she needs to help her is to her right), aka the tomb. Cel comes up with "the most reckless and brave plan she'd ever concocted."
The ridderack runs towards her, and Cel stands at the door. The ridderack runs to her, and Cel runs towards the ridderack.
The ridderack jumped for her, and she hurtled over the snarling thing.
Holy shit how high can Cel jump? How was she able to know how high the ridderack would jump so she could clear it? How big is the ridderack? It would have made 5,000 times more sense if she'd ducked under it.
Guys I figured it out, she's Mario
The ridderack breaks open the door. She runs past the beast and goes for the tomb.
Celaena hit the landing, ran for the tomb door, and prayed to gods whose names she'd forgotten, but who she hoped had not yet forgotten her.
Dude she was just telling us about the gods like three chapters ago and gave their names. The gods are probably watching her, giggling at this dumbass. Cel thinks about how "someone" wanted her to find the tomb to save her life (Elena? This woman has the memory of a golfish). She goes into the doorway and I guess Cel doesn't think to close the door.
Anyway, she runs between the sarcophogi to get the sword she'd noted earlier. The ridderack jumps after her again, and she grabs the sword.
She only had time to see its eyes and the blur of its skin before she drove Damaris through the ridderack's face
That's it. That's the big fight. The only thing Cel has killed so far is a random beast that looks like Werewolf Lupin.
She stands at stares at the dead beast for a bit, the amulet pulses again. She'd gotten bitten, though I don't know how since she stabbed it in the face, not through the mouth. Literally, what I quoted was the fight. They did slam against the wall but that's pretty much all that sentence said.
She pulls Damaris free, cleans it, and puts it back where she got it.
That was why they'd brought her to the tomb on Samhuinn, wasn't it? So she could see Damaris, and have a way to save herself?
That's one hell of a Batman Gambit, if that's even what it was. Cel was curious so she went down into the passageways. Nothing told her to go there. Cain was going to kill someone else, but she was there so he killed her. Cel could have just as easily run another way. Unless this person (Elena) helped her has precognition or something like that, this is VERY shoddy plotting. And Elena told her she doesn't know jack squat.
Lol who am I kidding, this book wasn't plotted
Cel says thank you to Elena's tomb and goes back to her room. Her wound is still bleeding, and her legs give out. She falls to the floor and it's obvious the ridderack's bite was venomous (though I don't remember IT BITING HER AT ANY TIME).
Nehemia apparently let herself into Cel's rooms and finds her on the floor. Cel is really out of it due to the venom, and someone lifts her up and takes her to the bathroom. She's put in the bathtub (because that will help her wounded hand?) and Nehemiah uses magic to heal her.
Then Cel passes out.
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