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“Actually, do think of me as malicious.
“Don’t call me. I’ll call you.”
Not gay
Perhaps she had been wrong to bind Bradamant by an oath in the Language,
Didnt brad do that kind of spontaneously?
She was so going to have Bradamant’s ass for this. Metaphorically speaking.
Not gay
The door swung open with a bang. Out of the corner of her eye she could see Vale and Kai standing there,
Second rescue
Irene wondered sourly if dragons were particularly prone to stating the obvious at moments of crisis, or if it was just him.
That was not really restating tho
She wouldn’t normally let her mind wander like that.
She runs into a lot of magic/fatigue that makes hee mind wander
Perhaps it was a manly thing. Perhaps it was a dragon thing on one side and a great detective thing on the other.
Yeah I'm sure it's nothing important
glaring at Kai when he tried to help her.
Girrrl u r ill
“Didn’t you even deal with the werewolves?”
Lol girl priorities stop being so snippy when you're being rscued
general mob of bystanders either shrieking
Why are they still around
dragging-her-along-like-a-giant-doll
This is such an active female protagonist
They were approaching slowly.
Convenient
It was simple enough to tell a lock to open, or a door to shut. These actions came naturally to those objects, and the universe was glad to oblige. But stuffed animals weren’t in the habit of reanimating to attack things.
I sense the rules for this magic will be strongly plot based
She decided to be grateful
Again Irene doesnt have emotions she selects emotions like she's flower arranging
The pilot was a woman,
Yes i guessed that
But they were running out of time.
Awww magic always works when the vplot needs it to
Kai saw him too and took rapid action,
So like reasonable speed action
And you’re probably wondering why I didn’t do such a thing before.”
“An explanation, if you please.”
Action time is over so now we have exposition
I can’t change a door from a locked door to an open door, but I can make the lock on a door open itself.
Those are literally the same result
as Bradamant would have done.
She was not supposed to be involved with him at all. With anyone.
Its interesting that this world is the one who breaks the cult mind control
Perhaps she’s the one you should have been working with
I kinda agree here
they were once living animals.
90% of what made them living is not present
they’re actually seeing,” Irene said, wishing that English was better adapted for this sort of discussion.
What language would be better ?
Or was the only real difference between her and Bradamant that Bradamant looked good in black leather?
Not gay
was easier to think of herself as a valiant preserver of books when there wasn’t someone looking her in the eyes and questioning that.
Thats the problem with cults: questions are cryptonite
“And I fail to understand your distress over one world, when you doubtless have so many to occupy your time. Why should you care about us, except as a source of books?” Irene swallowed and felt her cheeks flush with mingled anger and embarrassment. There was an uncomfortable grain of truth to what he was saying.
GRAIN ???? He is repeating what you told him earlier
had most of the skin stripped off my hand, been poisoned with curare, revived with strychnine, and chased by both werewolves and giant robots. Are you accusing me of not taking this seriously,
Uh literally all those things happened TO you. None of those were decisions you made
“Has the Library laws?” Vale cut in. “Has it signed treaties with all the worlds, allowing it to steal books? Has it any authority save that which it claims for itself? I would like to know if there is any reason in the world why I should respect it or its servants.”
Hahahahahaha lolsob
“Has it occurred to you that besides trying to kill us, he has killed other people?
To be fair at least two other gangs have gone on kiing sprees in this book beside Al. His kill counts still pretty low
Vale snorted. “The woman is clearly capable of taking care of herself.” “Maybe she is,” Irene said. “But that’s not the point. I am not going to let her just walk in there and
Dang irene got a bit of a gid complex going on
How dare he consider her ethics from such a lofty height? How dare he judge her?
Uhhh cuz he's working with you and he SHOULD wonder if you're a bad guy?
in my copious spare time as she was tempted to, “and I’d
Gawd they've been fighting werewolves bitch
Irene bit the inside of her cheek hard before she could make any comments
Lol do not speak
She wondered how old—or how young—he was in terms of dragon ageing. He was so mature in some ways and so young in others.
Uh
“The weapons are kept here on museum vehicles—ah,
There is a story behind this
and could certainly do so without her assistance.
but I don’t see what good that would be—” Vale suddenly snapped his fingers. “I do!
Dang she doesnt even get to do shit during action scenes anymore
Kai had dropped his gun and was hanging on to the straps with one hand and Irene with the other, and Irene couldn’t complain.
threw Irene entirely onto Kai,
Hopefully anyone who was standing on the roof had had the sense to run away.
Civilians are not having a good time in this book
He was looking up at her with that lost, puppy-like look again, as if she had somehow perfectly filled a hole in his personal universe. It was no doubt immensely flattering, but she didn’t have time for that. She didn’t have time to tell him that she trusted him, or that he could trust her.
No time for feels. Too bad cuz this book does not have many feels in between all the action and exposition. Which makes it harder to buy that the characters are actually forming a relationship
she couldn’t waste time indulging herself with personal feelings. Even if she wanted to.
What did he expect from her?
Booty?
Her life was more than just airship chases, cyborg alligator attacks, and hanging out with this alternate universe’s nearest analogue to Sherlock Holmes. She was a Librarian, and the deepest, most fundamental part of her life involved a love of books.
Which is why this book has a ton of action and very little reading?
shut the rest of the world out and have nothing to worry about except the next page of whatever she was reading.
Again very superficial
Irene snapped before she could help herself.
Irene knew that this was displacement behaviour, as the last thing she wanted to do was listen to Vale talking about tackling Alberich.
Lol shes becoming self aware of her mental avoidance
