jjosten:

i. what do you know about welsh kings? (2 marks)

i know that he is going to crumble with the weight of the burden he carries.

i know that he will choke with desperation long before he comes up for air, and i know that it is too much and not enough. i know that he needs to breathe. i know that drowning and dreaming are fickle gods. i know, i know, i know.  

ii. do you grow weary of miracles? (1 mark)

a) i dream and i wake up gasping for air. 
b) don’t tell me i’ll fall. i’ve fallen already.
c) i do, i do, i do.
d) other: _______

iii. coincidence? (3 marks)

they will tear down his kingdom, watch it fall; the walls will crumble, his eyes will lose their light. she will fall into the monotony of easy smiles and a fractured heart and i wish you could be kissed, dark nights and dull days and an endless, awful ache that spreads, grows, evolves into something dark and ugly and unmistakeable, unforgivable. remember that he’s going to die.

iv. if you had to choose between mint and memory - (2 marks)
don’t speak to him of those. don’t speak to him of mint leaves and kisses that were almost, almost; don’t mention ravens, or dead boys, or broken ones. don’t make him think of rain or the countless days he won’t live to see. 

no, i said don’t - 

v. and how do you break a castle down? (1 mark)

a) he is a king, or
b) this is the year he is going to die, or
c) all of the above.

- GANSEY: A CHARACTER STUDY.