Status Updates From The Traitor (The Masquerade...

”If she lost—if Cattlson won—if the marines came and found a battlefield in ruin, crows picking at the rebel dead—”
oh no, this is really just the test

wait why was it cartone??

“A notebook. The yellowjackets say he’d kept it hidden and safe, even in prison.”
Baru’s heart skipped. “What did he write?”
“He’d shredded all the pages.” Tain Hu shook her head. “They were just pulp. Perhaps he was feverish. I wanted you to know, before we burned it too.”
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“A fairer hand!” Lyxaxu cried, in imitation of the chanting crowd. “A hand too busy to answer all my letters, though.”
lol

”The crowd gasped, hushed, roared like a wave rising and retreating.
And the duchess Tain Hu stepped into the circle
let’s gooo

“You were born to rule your home. I have to win the right to rule mine. I—I have to go to Falcrest.”
“You will find no power behind the mask.” Cold, rooted conviction in Tain Hu’s voice. “It will wear you. It will eat your face away. You would do more for your home if you tore it all down.”

“The dukes don’t rebel because they’re all enormously in debt to the Fiat Bank, to me! They owe me their prosperity! They draw loan after loan just to keep up with each other. I could call that debt tomorrow and destroy them, but if Tain Hu uses her counterfeit liquidity to buy up their debt—if I try to call the debt, and Tain Hu bails them out—do you understand?”

“As long as you believe that is all you are, you will never be anything but a piece of the machine.”
“A piece can change the whole. It may take patience, or sacrifice, but—”
“This machine? Better to break it, and build something new.”
oop

“I’m Heingyl in this example?” Muire Lo’s face pinched. “Can’t I be Unuxekome?”
“You want to be a pirate?”
“Well, I’d like to be able to smile, at least.”
“Radaszic, then?”
“I’d like to be able to do something other than smile, too.”

”Tanifel, native-born, had gone over to the brewing rebellion, and the Masquerade had killed her for it. And then Olonori (an Oriati name, he would have been a foreigner and harder to corrupt) had refused to go over, and the rebels had killed him in turn.”

“What happened to the prior Accountant, Su Olonori?” she asked. “And Ffare Tanifel?”
He smiled tauntingly. “Nothing a wool merchant would know.”
as if he is

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Me voy a ir a dormir re enojada porque justo leí algo que me dio mucha bronca!!! Pero estoy cansada y me quiero dejar las últimas 50 páginas del libro para mañana ojalá se resuelva bien

“Congratulations, Baru. You’ve excelled beyond all expectation. You’ll go to Aurdwynn, to prove yourself as Imperial Accountant in those troubled lands. And perhaps later to Falcrest.”
When this happened, she knew she had been punished for going against him.
“Don’t be disappointed,” Cairdine Farrier said, patting her shoulder. “You’ve come so far, given where you began.”

“Up there,” she said, pointing. “My mother is the huntress Pinion, and my fathers are Solit the blacksmith and Salm the shield-bearer.”
At that his mouth pursed, as if the idea of fathers troubled him. Perhaps they had no fathers in Falcrest. “And you?”

somehow some of the best lesbianism ever put to page even though she is thus far strictly celibate and barely even allows herself to acknowledge when she's in a homoerotic situation except to note that it's "risky"....baru I'm obsessed with you

i don’t know enough about math, finance and accounting to understand fiscal strategy and wartime economy/policies but i know plenty about scheming lesbians to appreciate baru’s power.

(26/04) ufff