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“But more than this place, I don’t deserve you. If there was any justice in the world, I’d never have met you, much less have even a scrap of your regard. And for a while… I thought maybe I’d cheated fate to have you near me. That I was bending the rules—forcing some impossible streak of luck—and any moment, you’d find out who I really was, and then you’d be gone.”

“She saw in Tandri’s face, composed though it was, that she was awaiting some judgment. Preparing herself for it, to be struck, ignored, or accepted.
And terrified of all three.”

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“Hmmm. Well, people tend not to notice what’s in front of them until it nearly knocks them down.”

Tandri said *hint* *hint* *neon sign*

“Unnoticeable isn’t the same as harmless.”

“I’ll be damned,” said Viv.
“Hm,” said Cal. “Maybe. Least you won’t burn alive ’til you get to the hells, though.”

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“He stared up at her, and in a solemn whisper, said, ‘Thimble.’”

He’s a shy lil rat boy… who bakes… and his name is Thimble.

I want one.

“If I’ve learned one thing, it’s that if a beast isn’t angry yet, don’t get it started.”

Imagine having common sense

“I think I’d been looking for a way out for years. Adventuring, fighting, hunting bounties—you’re either bleeding yourself slow from a hundred wounds or waiting on one deathblow. But you get numb to the possibility of anything different. This was the first time something else made me feel a way I wanted to keep feeling. So, here I am, and with some blood still in me.”

“She found herself annoyed that Cal had made her hang it up and then angry at herself for blaming him, since that was a stupid thing to think. Viv could have juggled the man one-handed. He’d hardly made her do anything.”

Self-awareness for the winnnnn

“Folks gonna need a new education just to buy some bean w–… some coffee.”
“I don’t know. I kind of like it. It’s more exotic that way.”
“Ladies’ stockin’s and exotic bean water. Gods help us.”