Ink and Bone: Ephemera / Chapter Six

  • Yep. There it is at the beginning of this Ephemera: Wolfe and Santi were together before Wolfe’s research got him in trouble but probably are only pretending to have broken up? Or are actually broken up but will get back together because Fuck The Bosses. Also because they’re the only valid canon ship in this whole damn thing. Although I do hope that Rachel Caine realizes that “boyfriend” would’ve been just as good of a description as “lover.” No, given info in the sequels, “boyfriend” would’ve been a better term for their situation. GUYS CAN BE BOYFRIENDS WHEN THEY’RE GAY, RACHEL. GET OVER YOUR STUPID SELF.
  • Also, he really did just go “I’ll do my job but fuck all y’all for sending children into the middle of a war zone.”
  • Oh, yay. Hidden tunnels with more scary automata.
  • So, they’re sending the kids to Oxford using the same magic/technology as sending books from raids to the Library… and apparently traveling like that is like a potentially deadly version of beaming in Star Trek. That’s a lovely mental image.
  • I don’t know Italian, but I did take enough Spanish in high school to know that the phrase Wolfe and Santi were using was something about a wolf… so I’m guessing it might be a family motto turned into a couple-y in-joke?
  • Oh… oh, no… Yeah, that Danton kid’s definitely proof that this is Deadly Beaming.
  • OK, yeah, “in the mouth of the wolf” is definitely a family motto-turned-couple in-joke. And Dario’s nerve trying to use it that way to hit on Khalila… I’m so done with this asshole.
  • Izumi got killed, too? That’s… yeah. Wait, no, she’s barely alive? Hoo boy…
  • Danton is Definitely Dead, though.
  • And here’s Wolfe, pretending not to care about kids dying and getting hurt already because He Has To.
  • Why? Why is Wolfe still defending Dumb Bitch Morgan?