Royal Tea Service (Tea Princess Chronicles, #3)

by Casey Blair

like she’s following a proscribed rhythm

prescribed

under her command her,

here?

the tea master’s guild

masters'

to Istalm’s imperial history

Istalam's

the shrine to the spirits we set up in our home—that we had separate and, working together, combined.

I have tried five or six times to parse this, but I can't.

I’d like people to be able to notice us without considering our presence behaving just like anyone else as cause for note.

I eventually managed to parse this one, but commas around "behaving just like anyone else" would help a lot.

for Thiano and I to change

and me

now that you the consequences.

know the

She gotten herself into

got (or had gotten)

Iryasa regards cup thoughtfully.

the cup

all the princesses of Istalam

Minus the youngest

with no attendance to propriety.

attention

and I to experiment with.

and me

Iryasa asks him directly.”

No "

looks vaguely surprised that was all that was desired of him here,

that that

keeping me apprised on that which I could advise you?”

on which

“You chose to age after the Cataclysm, though.”

How long has it been? Thiano doesn't seem especially old. It happened while Miyara's grandmother was Queen. How much has the mystery woman aged? Did she allow some of her built-up aging to happen, so she aged faster than normal?

from the firsts arcanists?”

first

with who people actually are willing.

people who

By these accords, we make witchcraft legal throughout the known world

That isn't quite how diplomats and treaties work. Their governments still need to make the actual laws regarding their own territories and confirm the treaty terms.

of some kind. “—it will

kind, "

But, yeah. I was thinking maybe just like. ‘Lorwyn’s

like, 'Lorwyn's

would have put eventually put me

Omit first "put"

the same formalwear I always don,

"don" means "put on," not "wear" - and "put on" could conceivably be the meaning here, but using it to mean "wear" is a mistake a lot of people make, and I'm inclined to think this author is making it too (given how many other mistakes she's made).