Status Updates From The Familiar

The characters use different names and nouns to refer to one another, emphasizing that no person can be defined by a single identity or characteristic. Reducing someone to a noun can also serve to dehumanize them, creating emotional distance and detaching them from the relationships that define them.

It's felt quite slow up to this point, but I think it's starting to pick up now 🤞🏻
listening to the audiobook

”She would be alone in a city where she didn’t speak the language or know the customs, with only Hualit to protect her – and Luzia didn’t trust her aunt to do that, not if it harmed her own prospects. She would always choose herself first. Luzia could try not to blame her for that, but it was time she lived by the same rule.”

It's kinda sad that Luzia can't even trust the only relative she has left. >_<