Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

by Robert Jackson Bennett

<To steal a thing is not the same as freeing a thing,> said Valeria.

Lol sancia will not be abled to tell the differenced cuz shes totes fine with stealinng

But she wanted to ask more: to ask exactly what Valeria could do, what they’d made her to do, and how the Makers had made her to begin with. Yet Valeria said, <We must proceed. Will take time.

Editors note -

Valeria, she thought. You lied to me. You were no clerk, were you?

Lolllll

It was a man, floating facedown in the water, stiff and still.

Lol we forgot gregor died

in the dark, for the second time in her life, Sancia slowly remade herself.

Lol what is she dr manhattan

“God. She was bleeding out of her eyes.

Must exposit

<Valeria?> she asked. <Is that you?>

Dumb as a brick

She could see the scrivings in the shackles on her wrists and feet—although “seeing” wasn’t quite the right word for it.

Haha she can do skilledc work via superpowers

She couldn’t see forever, though—it wasn’t like she could see all the scrivings in Tevanne.

Gotta get in some exposition

her second sight (a stupid term, she thought, but she had no better one at the moment),

Lampshade! I domt even know why its stupid

She was talking, Sancia thought, like how a rich man would expect his dumb wife to talk. “Dear God,” said Tomas. “You’re drunk? Again?”

Does she even talk like cthis normally?

her face was shadowed now, lost in darkness—but

Lol anime

Estelle’s foot flying toward his face. Her kick caught

How norlt vto be abused: be action badass

“You…you hit me!”

No she kicked him lol

“It wasn’t personal—surely you understand that. But a creature such as you must be accustomed to being used as a tool by your betters.

You se backstabbijng is wrong if a posh person does it

Tomas would have given you a quick death, though.”

Lol no he xwouldnt

“He thought scrivers were pale, weak fools.

Monologue!

did everything for him. Through hints and nudges, over years and years,

Is ok shes too smart to be abused

This Sancia understood well. “He thought you his property,” she said.

Sancia can oknly understand through herself lol

“The hierophants made themselves the same way they made their devices,” said Estelle. “They took the minds and souls of others—and invested them in their very bodies.”

“I did what was necessary,” said Estelle, “to gain my freedom. Wouldn’t you?”

Huh she actualy is kinda similar to sancia lol

And then I will collect all that I have been denied!”

Yean ideologicall y basically sancia

was as heavy as twenty six-pound rapiers,

Lol shes 120? Kind of a chonker if cshes short like everone keeps saying

like a dark mountain range covered in tiny candles.

It was like all the machines and devices that made the world run experienced a fleeting moment of paralyzing self-doubt, and they all whispered—What was that? Did you hear that?

Omg maijn character syndrome

the Sancia that the stars touched right now was slightly less human than the one they had touched the night before.

Sure jan. This characters already paper thin

The two Scrappers were obviously terrified. They were far more vulnerable than two campo scrivers.

U dont say

They stared at her.

Gotta gwt in the acript notes

it’s grown pretty hard to discern one bit of mystical shit from another.”

Lol how do i take this bookseriousy

we need Clef. Which Estelle has.

WHO

“If you all are right about this imperiat thing, couldn’t Estelle shut down any assault?” “The

Editors note

“It has a limited range, and I don’t think it’s easy to operate.

Sure jan

And now she’s become too dangerous to be free.

Lol

Clef taught me a lot about doors.

Girl when

But he’s been taken from us.” She sighed sadly.

when did she start caring about gregor

…they could scrive a soldier’s mind. Make them fearless…Make them do despicable things, and then forget they’d ever done them…

Lol what has he done so far

Until he came…He

And taught her the waus of te monologue!

“We must keep the devil inside the box,” whispered Gregor.

Get back in the box jezebel!

to the Mountain, Gregor.

Lolz gamed of thrones

After my elevation, she thought, perhaps all these old tools Father dug up will make sense.

I thougt she was good at scriving and studying the artifacts

and the Commons were screaming in panic.

Arent those supposed to be the guys we care about? Whoopsie

You’ve killed my old house in one night!” “Eh,” said Sancia. “I just aired it out a bit.”

Wut

“You know, we could just take the money he gave us and run,” said Giovanni lightly. “True,” said Claudia. “But then everyone else would die.” “Well. Yes. I guess we wouldn’t want that.” Together, they fled into the darkness.

Lol thisz makes it look like they did

after tonight, she wanted to touch no one but Berenice;

Sure

the girl’s obviously going to make it there in way less than ten minutes!

What if she does a detour because she thinksz shed has time u dolt

“You could have scrumming told us this!” shouted Berenice. “And what would that have done?” said Orso. “Probably made everyone yell a bunch, just as you’re doing now.

Oh noes not yelinf

Gregor Dandolo did not think.

Hes robocop!

I was made for this, he thought. I was made for war. I was always, always, always made for war.

:(

But did she just fly? Out of the sky?

Its weird that the impressive things sancia does are al given to her by other people. Its either the plate, box lady powers, clef, or her scriver friends

Clef—the person who, for so long, had been her closest friend,

Its been day wtf