Total pages in book: 247
Estimated words: 231436 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1157(@200wpm)___ 926(@250wpm)___ 771(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 231436 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1157(@200wpm)___ 926(@250wpm)___ 771(@300wpm)
When the dakkais spill out of the bay, he remarks that he thought they’d cleared the harbor, and Rhain tells him they were in the process of doing it. As he watches Bele fight, he gushes that he might be in love. As the battle rages, a dakkai pins him to the parapet wall, and Sera throws a dagger at it, saving Ector’s life. He thanks her in response.
Ector takes Sera back to the palace and wants to return her to her bedchambers. When he sees Nyktos, he asks the Primal how much of the blood he’s wearing is his and realizes that most of it is. It concerns him. He then turns his attention to Sera and tells her that she doesn’t have to pretend to care for Nyktos around them. She promptly tells him off and chastises him not to tell her how to feel.
After Hamid attacks Sera, Ector arrives with Nyktos and Saion. He kills Hamid with eather before thinking that Nyktos would probably like to question him. Sadly, there’s nothing left but ash. Despite the error, he’s a little surprised by how upset Nyktos is that he killed Hamid and remarks he should probably think before he acts, then goes to clean up the mess.
Ector says that no one would piss Nyktos off when he could fuck with them after they’re dead. As they talk about what might have led to the attack, Ector tells everyone that Gemma is still in the palace and was sleeping when he checked on her half an hour ago.
He shares that Nyktos doesn’t enjoy being touched but likes Sera’s kind of touching and is asked if he has a death wish. His response? “I’m beginning to think I do.”
He reminds me so much of Emil…
Ector enters the throne room just as Nyktos engages the murderous gods. When he sees that Bele is injured, his eyes turn glassy. He falls to his knees and argues when Nyktos says she sleeps, that is all. Then, with awe and fear, he stares at Sera, saying, “That is not all,” and watches in shock as Sera Ascends Bele.
Ector and Saion pace as they wait in Nyktos’s office with Sera. She asks them if they’re scared of her, and Ector responds that they’re more unnerved since nobody should be able to do what she did—bring a god back to life and Ascend them. He then adds that he doesn’t think Bele is a Primal, but she is more powerful. He goes on to say that he was around when Primals Ascended.
He’s ordered to fetch a bowl of water and a towel so Sera can clean up and does, then leaves to wait for Nektas. Later, he waits outside the throne room with Nektas, Reaver, Rhahar, Ward, and Penellaphe—the Arae have answered.
When the next big attack comes, and Davina is struck down, Ector stops Sera from reviving the draken. Then, he curses when Sera admits that she finds Nyktos ripping a god in half hot.
In discussions later, Ector wonders how a god was looking for Sera when no one knows what she looks like. But then Rhain implies that Veses does, and things become clearer.
After Sera tries to leave to take on Kolis by herself, Ector is with Orphine when Nyktos returns with her and is subsequently stunned when he hears the specifics. But maybe not as surprised as he is when he finds out that Sera and Nyktos are lovers. Later, when Nyktos tells them all that Sera’s bravery is unmatched, he draws his sword and bows to her.
Ector fights with the others against the Cimmerian and then joins Rhain and Sera in the office after the battle. He tells Rhain that Sera saved his ass outside.
Tensions arise between Rhain and Sera, and Ector tries to defuse the situation. He says that she’s not the enemy. When talk turns to the things Nyktos has sacrificed for Sera, he brushes aside the topic and then leaves quickly when Nyktos arrives, donning his scary face.
Ector enters Nyktos’s office just after Attes leaves and reveals that Attes told him about Kolis making Nyktos get permission for the coronation. When they discuss what happened, Ector realizes that Attes’s presence had no effect on Sera and tells her that gods and godlings are not immune to a Primal’s influence. Only three things are: the Arae, the draken, and another Primal.
The time approaches for them to head to Dalos, and he is confused why everyone is so nervous. He says it’s how they get permission. Though he does worry about something: not Nyktos but rather Sera not playing nice with Kolis.
After Sera’s dinner with Bele and Aios, Ector escorts her back to her room. He tells her that Orphine is with Nyktos and remarks that he’ll lose an eye to a draken someday, given how little awareness they have of where they are in a space. He goes on to say that there are Shades at the edge of the Dying Woods, too close to Lethe, and Nyktos and Orphine are dealing with them. He adds that the Shade issue is an infrequent one, but something that is becoming a bigger problem.