Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

by Robert Jackson Bennett

One day I’ll live a life that doesn’t force me to make such cold-blooded decisions,

Poor you

dove for the imperiat.

Yeah how come that didn't turn off the gravity plates too

“Oh crap,” she said.

Lol oopsie maybe she gonna kill lots of people

stone, wood, and probably people—robbed

Eeeyhup

falling, penetrating down, down, down into the earth.

Lol what if sancia blows up the planet

full-scale gravity-rig collapse

Lol like anyones seen that before with this new technolofy

am really not sure I should be helping you,> said the Mountain dolefully. <What, because I almost blew you up?> said Sancia

She sucks

<Don’t you have some directive to save Tribuno Candiano’s life?> <Yes?> <Well, that’s what I’m trying to do.

Back to yhe lying

hallway—which, she noted, was covered with ravaged corpses—and

Lol just to hammer in she totes saw but doesnt gaf

She realized it must not be new—when they’d implanted a plate in her head, it had been major surgery.

U dont say

wasn’t the first scrived human at all, was I?” she asked.

The real tragedy is shes not quite as speshul as she thought. Also: evidence why she should not have been the pov character

“God, did…did you kill all these men?”

BITCH like u even care

if you put me in my just grave, then fine. But unlike you, I’m going to stay there. And that’ll be on you.”

Lollllll like none of the deaths she's caused are on her. Sancia do you reallt think all those people crushed by the gates or the 1/5 skyscraper were also immortal

each star, she knew, was almost certainly someone dying.

Poor estelle i mean a chunk of her crop probably got crushed by the gates earlier tonight

no one could understand what the cause was. A recent blow to the head?

Unintentionally comic

Because it remembered the wet snap of the whip, and the smell of blood. I was made. I was forged.

Lol because inanimate things need to be whipped and also have blood

“No!” shrieked the woman with the dagger.

Damn how long was san just standing cuz estelle is slow af

“The…the worst thing about this place,”

Monologue!

“It’s a system,”

Lolz woke points

Clef was saying something to her, but she could not listen—the

You cpukd ay she even.... Used Clef as a tool

Don’t I deserve this, don’t I deserve this after what my father and my husband put me through?”

Aha! she was rich so we dont haved to feel bad for her abuse. Unlike sancia who gets to punch through the planet and thats fine

She was sure it would work. She was so, so sure she’d be victorious. But then Clef started screaming.

Lollllll u hypocrite

Estelle was about to finish the ritual…and

Girl i think she did

You’ve been changed. Now you can do many of the same things that I can do, kid,”

She speshul

“I’ve lived in your thoughts for a long time.

DAYS

have some time,” said the man. “Time in here’s not the same as time out there,

Editors note

that one…” His face filled with a curious horror. “I hope,” he said softly, “that it’s just coincidence.” “She said she could stop this madness,” said Sancia. “Can she?”

Sancia is the dumbest thing alive

If it’ll stop Estelle and save lives—including mine.”

I like how save lives is just smushed innthere

a war between those who make and that which is made, between those who own and those who are owned. You’ve already seen what the powerful

Those concfepts are suuuuper disyincy

Valeria eventually found a way to exploit the flaws in her own commands. She’s still following her commands…just in an unusual fashion.”

The mission is far too important for me to allow ypu to jeopardize it

And when you decide how to respond, remember—the first few steps of your path will decide the rest of it.”

Make sure they don’t change you into something you don’t recognize—or you might wind up like me.” He smiled weakly at her. “How can we release her, then?”

San like nah i dont wanna thinj about my choices

I did everything right.” “No, you didn’t,” said Sancia. “Look at yourself. How could you think such a thing?”

Unintentionally funny

You are hereby ordered to raise your hands and place your body and self upon the ground!”

Lolz which is it

“People died. Many people.

All killdd by estelle no doubt

“We took out the oldest merchant house in Tevanne in one night,”

No you didnt lol you had a ton of help from this lady's house

“Ownership. They get to be founders. I supplied the starting capital, they supply the labor and raw resources, and we all share a piece of the profits.