Remember the impossible mountain pass, where the Monsean climber Grella wrote journals while he was freezing to death? Bitterblue has crossed that pass. She was only ten. Our father, the king, had chased her into the mountains; he chased her halfway across the world. She’d had no choice but to face Grella’s Pass. She’d lived through the crossing only because Katsa, who’s Graced with survival skills, had kept her alive. Now, in our ship in the middle of a horrible storm, it was the funniest thing that’d ever happened to either of us.
