He’d found the Beast Boy in an abandoned lunatic asylum on Huffaker. What he had done instead was seek out Letheo. Besides, he knew what that life had been like, and it would have made him even more miserable than he was now. They at least kept an order to the dark deeds there. The Sisterhood was powerful, but, despite being well-able to force them into submission, Carrion let the women rule Gorgossium. By right and by force, Carrion could have returned and claimed his rightful title of Lord of Midnight, but he had little desire to. Gorgossium was now ruled by the Patchwork Council of the Sisterhood of the Thread. She’d either displeased them with how out of hand her executions had gotten or done something else to incur their wrath, because after Absolute Midnight’s darkness had gone, so had she. Something had happened between Mater Motley and Those Who Walk Behind the Stars after the events on Scoriea. He didn’t regret his actions, but he regretted the loneliness he’d been left with. Now his father was dead, having freed the souls of Carrion’s older brothers and mother and gone with them to Paradise. Carrions carried darkness within them, yes, but his father had shown him that it needn’t be the only thing to fill them. He needn’t have been a lonely wretched monster all these years. He’d severed ties with his grandmother because of the girl and because she’d reunited him with his father who’d shown him all his grandmother had robbed him of in her ambition to have a loyal apprentice. This time he was left with absolutely nothing. He’d tracked down her friends, the John brothers (who were understandably terrified, given that they’d stolen from him on more than one occasion, and given that he was Christopher Carrion) and discovered that after he’d left, she’d fallen over the edge of the world with that wretched fisherman and her geshrat friend’s head.Ĭarrion thought he’d grieved after he’d had Boa killed, but this was incalculably worse. He’d been forced to magically flee Scoriea when the Nephauri had been instructed to kill everyone, and he knew she’d never let him take her if it meant leaving her friends behind. (See the end of the work for more notes.) Carrion’s comment in Tazmagor has given me hope. The only way I’m okay with Gaza’s sudden appearance is if they brought him out specifically to kill him. I was pissed when, after setting up 4 or more possible pairings within the first two books, this fisherman jumps on her boat, tries to stab people, and is suddenly her true love. This is also my hope for what might happen in the actual books concerning the pairing. The slew of continuity errors between Days of Magic, Nights of War and Absolute Midnight makes me want to grind my teeth and scream.) (BTW, am I right in thinking that Carrion only had brothers after his sister died in the orchard? And yet “brothers and sisters” is used to when referring to his siblings. After thoroughly immersing myself in Absolute Midnight, I’ve become much more open to a CandyxCarrion pairing, so this story will take place after AM and mostly ignore whatever awaits us in the fourth Book of Abarat, including Midnight’s Empire.
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