we_do_bones: Katy O'Brian (absolutely done)
Gideon the Ninth ([personal profile] we_do_bones) wrote in [personal profile] we_bring_hell 2020-11-04 03:03 pm (UTC)

She puts her hands in her pockets and looks out over the water. Gideon is not exactly one for introspection (somewhere she knows Harrow is rolling her eyes); she just feels what she feels and tries not to overthink it.

And right now what she feels is that she wants Lan Wangji to feel comfortable with her. She doesn't over-analyze it, just goes along with the instinct. "There's a lot of water on the First," she says. "Canaan House is on an island. I'd never seen anything like it...the Ninth is basically just a pit drilled down into the center of its planet. The First has rain, and probably snow. When we saw it from space, I couldn't believe any one thing could be that brilliant and blue."

But Canaan House is a mouldering ruin and a death trap, and that has taught her that beauty might just be hiding a monster beneath.

"I haven't seen mountains, though. Haven't been to any, I mean – I know there are some here. And I've never seen the difference between summer and winter."

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