“It’s beautiful,” Cam said beside Merik, her left hand held across her heart. The healers had told her to stand that way, and for once she was doing what she’d been told. No, no, not “she,” he reminded himself. Cam was a boy, and though Merik wasn’t used to that yet—to thinking of Cam as a “he”—they had weeks of travel ahead. Plenty of time in which Merik could retrain his mind.
I’m glad that despite the rough tackling of a trans character it wasn’t a huge problem. Cam was Cam and it was everyone else struggles with it and I’m glad to see Merik finally seeing that
