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“Each yoki-hijo trained in an ancient and powerful art. A deliberate, wondrous artistry requiring the full synergy of body and mind. Geological reorganization on the microscale, requiring acute understanding of gravitational equilibrium. In other words, they stacked rocks.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

“I knew I was being unkind, as his need for cleanliness is, I think, more compulsion than preference, but I was too irritated to care.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“The fourth was the most ridiculous of all; an entire hot air balloon burst forth, made from gaudy silks in a dozen different colours. It drifted a few feet off the floor, bouncing gently off the display cases.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

“That was when the second party of sheerie made their entrance, smashing through the museum doors in a hail of splintered wood. I wondered if they were unaware of how human doors operated, or if they simply enjoyed a dramatic entrance. I say second party, though I can only assume they were different sheerie; the creatures did not look alike, but they were so peculiar to my mortal eyes that I struggled to compare them.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands