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Explanation and Analysis—Daggers in Her Eyes:
At the Harvest Conclave in Chapter 27, young apprentices swarm Rowan asking about Goddard, while adoring girls drape over Rowan's newly buff figure. Citra eventually finds him but regards him with a piercing look that the narrator describes using a simile as well as alliteration:
Then Citra pushed her way through, and Rowan felt as if he was caught doing something he shouldn’t. “Citra, hi!”
[...] “Looks like you’ve made a lot of friends,” Citra said.
“No, not really,” he said, then realized he’d just insulted them all.
“I mean, we’re all friends, right? We’re in the same boat.”
“Same boat,” repeated Citra with deadpan dullness but daggers in her eyes as sharp as the ones that used to hang in Faraday’s weapons den. “Good to see you too, Rowan.” Then she strode away.
The alliteration sets off the description of Citra's expression: she spoke with "deadpan dullness but daggers in her eyes." The repeated /d/ sounds make a dull, thudding sound that seems to reflect Citra's desire to thump Rowan for prioritizing a group of strangers over her, and for aligning himself with the evil Scythe Goddard.
This alliteration is the beginning of a larger metaphor: she had "daggers in her eyes as sharp as the ones that used to hang in Faraday's weapons den." The narrator describes Citra's anger in this way to connect it to the widespread imagery of weapons in the book. Note that in an earlier scene, Citra had a formative moment in Faraday's weapons den, where she first considered the possibility of really being a scythe. Thus the reference back to those particular daggers implies that Citra's new distrust of Rowan is a result of her long training in tact and emotional strength as an apprentice. As she has learned under Scythe Curie, Citra learns how to stare with daggers, as well as how to wield them.
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