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Malini is becoming really unlikeable. I can’t tell yet but it feels like she’s handling Priya like a weapon. She needs Priya’s abilities as a thrice-born for her army against Chandra so she’s using Priya’s affections for her as a way to rope her in

"as she tucked the pleats of her own sari to knife sharpness"

I get the intent but seriously?? How do you make your sari's pleats knife sharp? It's clothing...

"We have fought Chandra across the empire. In Dwarali. In Alor. He has no gift for keeping allies. He wants people to bow and scrape and beg for his scraps, but why would they, when I have offered them so much more? So his armies crumble, and I stride onward, and bind myself to allies with vows and deals and promises."

Telling and not showing is peaking in this one...

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