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The World Is Crumbling, But Tonight I Will Make Dinner by Robbies_Restroom
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
16 Feb 2024
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But Gideon can’t fix her. Can’t bring her mother back. Can’t make her father come home. Can’t make her worthy enough to even ask for it. She can’t make the Lord forgive her.
Except she doesn’t say any of that. It’s too hopeless. Too pathetic.
Instead, it’s a weak plea that does escape her. But how could she ever understand? What is God to an atheist? What connection do the two of them have when it’s her whole world?
“Has anybody ever died for you?” Harrow whispers, “Would anyone ever? People are selfish. They’re cruel. We hurt eachother, we take from eachother—and that’s why. That’s why I believe. Even if it makes me a fool in your eyes, I have to.”
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In a rural, hyper-religious country town in central Australia, Harrow and Gideon grow up sharing a wall. Deeply, reverently, irrevocably in love, but violently steeped in enough religious shame to hide it, they fail to learn the difference between love and worship, want, and lust.