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jackGideon grows up in the ninth house. Harrowhark's future parents are desperate to keep the house going and concoct a monstrous plan to kill all the other infants to create a super necromancer baby, Harrowhark. Gideon survives the gas because she's inherited some John-immortality. Everyone who was in on the plan feels guilty being reminded of it every time they see her.
Harrowhark learns about the cost of her birth? Harrowhark and Gideon are all rival-y. They have a fight. Harrowhark decides to go to the locked tomb and determine whether it was worth killing all those children to preserve the ninth house, or not. She knows she may die from the wards, and plans to die by suicide if she finds her creation wasn't worth it.
She passes the wards, because she's a genius and incredibly significantly she unbeknownst still has some of Gideon's blood and skin under her fingernails, which the ward's recognise as almost John's. She finds Alecto's body. She falls in love with the image of Alecto's body. She leaves the tomb. She sometimes dreams of Alecto. Possibly Alecto attaches to her in some way, although I'm not sure if we ever find if that actually happens before their souls cross over into Nona. (Most of the things we think might be The Body in Harrowhark's bubble-visions seem to have turned out to be half of a ghost of Wake.)
Her parents hear what she find and conclude that killing the children wasn't worthwhile and decide they should all die, including Harrowhark? Harrowhark decides not to die, and from a disturbingly young age necromantically puppets her parents to continue running the ninth house.
Gideon and Harrowhark continue to have increasing rivalry possibly with hidden attraction. Harrowhark is out of her depth trying to run the ninth house. Gideon knows about Harrowhark's parents but doesn't really care, really wants to leave, and join the cohort. But Harrowhark won't let her because then she'd have no way of preventing Gideon spilling the secret. So they're tied together. This would all make a great book but it's implied by the snippets of it we get.
Harrowhark learns about the cost of her birth? Harrowhark and Gideon are all rival-y. They have a fight. Harrowhark decides to go to the locked tomb and determine whether it was worth killing all those children to preserve the ninth house, or not. She knows she may die from the wards, and plans to die by suicide if she finds her creation wasn't worth it.
She passes the wards, because she's a genius and incredibly significantly she unbeknownst still has some of Gideon's blood and skin under her fingernails, which the ward's recognise as almost John's. She finds Alecto's body. She falls in love with the image of Alecto's body. She leaves the tomb. She sometimes dreams of Alecto. Possibly Alecto attaches to her in some way, although I'm not sure if we ever find if that actually happens before their souls cross over into Nona. (Most of the things we think might be The Body in Harrowhark's bubble-visions seem to have turned out to be half of a ghost of Wake.)
Her parents hear what she find and conclude that killing the children wasn't worthwhile and decide they should all die, including Harrowhark? Harrowhark decides not to die, and from a disturbingly young age necromantically puppets her parents to continue running the ninth house.
Gideon and Harrowhark continue to have increasing rivalry possibly with hidden attraction. Harrowhark is out of her depth trying to run the ninth house. Gideon knows about Harrowhark's parents but doesn't really care, really wants to leave, and join the cohort. But Harrowhark won't let her because then she'd have no way of preventing Gideon spilling the secret. So they're tied together. This would all make a great book but it's implied by the snippets of it we get.