In the days that followed, Shahar convened an emergency session of the Nobles’ Consortium and blatantly asked for help. The people of Shadow could rebuild, she said, with time to heal and sufficient assistance. But more than goods and food, they would need something the Arameri could not provide: peace. So she asked the assembled nobles to put aside their differences with each other and the Arameri and to remember the best principles of the Bright. It was, I am told, an amazing, stirring speech. The proof of this lies in the fact that they listened to her. Caravans of supplies and troops of
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N.K.Jemisin is terrible at this. Yikes. This is quite possibly the worst paragraph in this novel, and the novel is the worst of the trilogy. Too much of Sieh telling and not enough showing. Thank god it came before Broken Earth rather than after. That would have tarnished her reputation
