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4	->''"What did you see, when you looked into the mirror?"''
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6	''The Sister Verse and the Devouring Glass'' is the second book in ''the Sister Verse'' series by Creator/AmelieCLanglois. It continues the story of Diana and Elliot as they join up with a teenage girl named Kaylee, who was forced to flee from the Lord in White, and a wanderer named Farah, who they recruit in order to infiltrate Lao-Va and retrieve the Devouring Glass. Meanwhile, Singer attempts to piece together the remnants of the Crest in his war against the darklings.
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8	The avalanche of {{Gorn}} and MindScrew continues as the past of the Dreadlands is revealed, along with the past of its characters.
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10	The sequel to ''Literature/TheSisterVerseAndTheTalonsOfRuin''.
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13	!!''The Sister Verse and the Devouring Glass'' contains examples of:
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15	* ApocalypticLog: The logs from the Carcosa survey team, all of whom are driven to a paranoid insanity by whatever lives there. Also applies to the Crest special operators trying to infiltrate Lao-Va, who were likely tortured until they became darklings.
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17	* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: This seems to be what’s happening to Elliot, who apparently had no problem showing a fourteen-year-old girl how to execute someone with the handgun he just bought for her. Even Diana finds it unlike him.
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19	* DarkWorld: The Shadow Realm is a surreal reflection of reality where everyone's shadow self resides, and everything is made from a viscous ink.
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21	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Diana essentially tries to kill herself by obliterating her shadow. It doesn’t work, but the only thing keeping her from violently destabilizing is her armor.]]
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23	* EldritchLocation: Lao-Va is a sentient, living organism that changes its architecture depending on who’s inside it, and how much it wants to screw with them. Honorable mentions go to Carcosa, the Lunar Fortress, and basically the entire Dreadlands.
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25	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: [[spoiler: In the final chapter, the world starts to disintegrate, signifying the coming end of Diana’s story, and supposedly that of all creation.]]
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27	* {{Gorn}}: As soon as the party gets to Lao-Va, things get wet.
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29	* LostTechnology: Singer spends most of the book recovering the Crest infrastructure so he can manufacture an army of drones.
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31	* MagicWand: Arthur Wilbury uses one of these to cast a variety of spells, such as summoning black holes, transmuting terrain, and projecting blasts of kinetic energy.
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33	* MindRape: The fate of [[spoiler: Veronica]], who summoned the Lord in White in order to become a darkling, without knowing that psychopaths are useless to it.
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35	* MiseryBuildsCharacter: Everyone goes through their own grueling trial in Lao-Va until they finally accept [[spoiler:or destroy]] their shadows, granting them a better understanding of who they really are.
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37	* {{Shapeshifting}}: Used by the Lord in White to assume the party’s appearance, and [[spoiler: kill everyone in Kaylee’s high school]], making Diana and the others wanted fugitives.
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39	* ShoutOut: Diana and the others start actively looking for references in order to distinguish their own actions from those that were written for them, to little success. These include: ''Film/AlienS'', ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', ''Literature/TheKingInYellow''.
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41	* TheSociopath: [[spoiler: Veronica, who tries to sacrifice Kaylee and her sister as her act of passion in the darkling rite.]]
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43	* SurrealHorror: Even the comparatively mundane parts of the book are weird.
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45	* TomeOfEldritchLore: The party learns early on that they’re trapped inside the Sister Verse.
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47	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Diana notes that she’s been slowly losing it ever since she began her quest.
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49	* WrongSideOfTheTracks: The ghetto outside of Meridian, though how many of Elliot's memories were actually real is up for debate.
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51	* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Whatever it is that’s living in the sewers of Lao-Va. The longer you look at them, the more their appearance reveals itself as your brain slowly adjusts to them.
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