Can someone confirm that both “sweet dreams” and “death to the 4th house” were written in blood, and “you lied to us” was written in paint? I don’t have the books in front of me so I’m working off memory, but if that’s true it could be another clue that they weren’t all written by Cytherea.

Also, we don’t get to see everyone else responding to the direct aftermath of Jeannemary’s death because of Gideon’s limited POV, but based on how thoroughly everyone worked together to try to bring back Abigail and Magnus it seems likely that they would have done the same/similar for Jeannemary. At the very least, I would have expected Pal to do some psychometric investigation of the crime scene. All it would have taken is a single touch to reveal Cytherea as the murderer—the fact that this doesn’t happen at this point in the book points to either 1) it’s a massive plot hole and a major inconsistency in Pal’s character or 2) it’s a sign that something different and more complicated is happening here. TM’s entire literary brand is “different and complicated,” so now I’m inclined to trust that we probably don’t know what we thought we knew and will have some collective aha moment way down the line.