Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes, #0)

by Travis Baldree

Haha

That’s the bookseller’s art, choosing just the right one for the person in question.”

Maylee

Viv

her smile returned and journeyed all the way to fullness.

Giving gifts involved a lot more careful navigation than it ought to.

Haha - a little crush there?

The dwarf watched Viv’s expression, her own a mix of amusement and something else besides.

“You know, there’s a lot of people out there. Lot of noise. I love what I do, love it every day, but none of us sees more than a tiny piece of all the world,

a truth with an edge to it. One that might cut them both later.

the promontory with the unrecognizable structures overlooked it all.

The sunlight shattered to pieces on the gentle, scalloping waves.

A brace of terns followed them, scolding with their harsh, burring voices.

Haha - P.B. Shelley drowned sailing 50 miles from Livorno to Lerici (Italy), probably in sight of land (although it was a storm that sank their boat).

“Peachgills.

a whiff of juniper

“You baby mercenary.”

Haha

“This goblin girl.

Haha

Viv nearly asked whether Maylee had seen the goblin again—perhaps when and if they caught up with Voss’s crew. Had their campaign been successful? She found herself wondering what that goblin’s ultimate fate was.

But in the end, she thought better of the question.

Question

“I’m just tryin’ to figure you out.

Are you plannin’ to stay here or somethin’? Settle down?”

“It’s two people with both eyes open having a little fun for a few weeks.

the fastest way to get to the other side of unsettled was to muscle it out.

Simile interesting

Haha

“The Lens and the Dapplegrim?”

this grizzled old mercenary who lost a leg.

Haha but she has lost a leg.

I feel like I’m scrubbing the deck while you bail water. And I don’t like it.”

Simile - useful

Having you here is connecting me to why I do this. To why I used to love it.

watching you read what I give you, putting a book in your hands and seeing what happens to you once you put it back down

Mee too - what some people do for me, and I ho0e I do it for some as well.

It was the man in gray all right,

Haha

Haha creepy.

etched into the skin below his clavicle, was a diamond with branches like horns.

Iridia.

Luca

Iridia smiled for the first time since either of them had met her.

thank the Eight!”

I get the eight hells, but what eight are to be thanked? Question

It’s bonedust.”

Haha ewww

Osseoscription!”

“Osseoscription,”

bone homunculus.

Haha

Haha

Thunder rattled the windows, and wind howled hard under the eaves.

Two nubby horns rose from its forehead.