If an epilogue of The Later Years comes out after The Raven King and Ronan Lynch is NOT the Latin teacher at Aglionby I’m going to be super disappointed. Just imagine Ronan at thirty in front of a class of posh brats. He thinks he’s this hardass jerk that all the kids are afraid of but it turns out he’s actually a really good teacher (like his dad) and, even worse, that the posh brats actually kind of adore him, and he has no idea what to do with that.
“Fuck off, they’re lame,” says Ronan, at the table in his and Adam’s dining room, aggressively writing passable at the top of his best student’s perfect quiz, and then adding a gold star.
Adam says “sure, yeah,” in that way that means he thinks Ronan is full of shit.
“I hate them,” says Ronan, filling out the form to volunteer as a chaperone on the sophomore trip to Rome.
“Right,” says Adam, patting the top of his head.
“Education is a farce,” Ronan whispers, up for four days straight writing letters of recommendation to colleges.
Adam is asleep, but his mouth breathing agrees.
“This fucking job is the fucking worst,” says Ronan, half-glum and half-proud as he watches the seniors who won’t be back next year graduate.
“Yeah,” Adam says, nudging Ronan’s shoulder with his own, unbearably fond. “The worst.”
- Blue Sargent: Good to see you, Ronan. But if you're here... Who's guarding Hades?
- Ronan Lynch:
“Blue was the natural result of a home like this: confident, strange, credulous, curious. And here he was: neurotic, rarified, the product of something else entirely.”
for anon
The position of Latin teacher is getting a little bit like the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher
“The king sleeps still, under a mountain , and around him is assembled
his warriors and his herds and his riches. By his right hand is his cup,
filled with possibility. On his breast nestles his sword, waiting, too, to wake.
Fortunate is the soul who finds the king and is brave enough to call him to wakefulness, for the king will grant him a favour, as wondrous as can be imagined by a mortal man.”
There was humiliation in his voice when Noah answered, “We were friends.”
Adam said, rather more ferocious than he’d been a moment before, “A friend wouldn’t kill you.”
aglionby academy was the number one reason blue had developed her two rules: one, stay away from boys because they were trouble. and two, stay away from aglionby boys, because they were bastards
↳ Helen Gansey
before i read trc i didn’t think gansey was a kid like the rest of them because i’d see the name gansey and think it was an old man’s name so i figured he was someone’s dad or something and as it turns out, i was not wrong
I have now drawn part 3 of chapter 34 of The Dream Thieves.