#gourrina

-OMG! The teamwork between Lina and Gourry is like next level stuff! Him silently picking up on her cures to ask stupid questions to buy her time to chant!

-Lina says all the things that those of us conditioned to think of the other person’s point of view wish we could bring ourselves to say when dealing with difficult people.

-Mileena deserved better.

-And Gourry starts to have to take the lead a bit. What makes them such a great team really shines so far.

-If I wasn’t so tired, there is probably so much to read into the sunset and shadow meets light metaphor. It’ll be interesting to see how this continues through the novel. All I take from it right now is Gourry is the light. Luke even points out that he serves as her lie detector kit.

-Love the dialogue between Lina and Gourry…and how he flummoxes her with seeing through her BS even as she rags on his smarts. He mostly keeps her in check…aside from the scene at the end when she interrogates Bran’s minions.

-You know, tailing on the end scene in chapter 13 where they agree that it is fine to travel together for the enjoyment of it, it does feel like Lina and Gourry had planned a relaxing vacation…or even something more romantic, and then got roped into all this. Gourry reminds Lina a few times that they are supposed to not take jobs and have fun. He has the vibe of a man who’s a bit annoyed that his romantic vacation plans got ruined because they got called into work. In fact my headcannon is gonna be that he didn’t tell her to take it down a notch with Bran’s minions because he was annoyed that they had to do this.