How It All Goes Down
The World Remade
- It's execution day again—for, what, the fourth time?
- Anywho, Madrigal is in her cell, and Brimstone has come to visit her.
- The resurrectionist drops hints that this is not the end for Madrigal, even though Thiago has demanded that her soul be evanesced—dissipated into the air, never to be resurrected.
- Jeez, man, jealous much? This takes "if I can't have her, no one can" to the craziest extreme.
- Then Brimstone drops a huge bomb on Madrigal. He says it was Chiro that sold her out to Thiago. That jackal-headed jerk.
- Before leaving, Brimstone tells Madrigal that hope is the real magic. She just needs to focus it.
- After he says this, "[Madrigal] didn't understand, quite, but something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone" (59.95). Title shout out, woot woot.
- Enough of this heartwarming moment of courage, it's time to chop her head off.
- Thiago comes in to boss the guards around.
- Brimstone tells Thiago that he found someone to bless Madrigal's evanescence: "Chiro. […] I can't imagine you would object to her" (59.106).
- Thiago doesn't object, and Madrigal now has an idea.
- It's all clear to her now.
- Just not to us, yet.