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Well that was refreshing - both Hulda and Merritt are propositioned and immediately and straightforwardly turn down the offers. There is no hemming and hawing for the sake of pointless drama.

"Glory’s a heady drink, but the bar bill’s damned high."

"Their creed is “Mischief, Malevolence, and Mayhem.”"

Hell yeah! Secret passageway!

"He needs killing, not negotiation." --- good to see that she's decided on murder as a valid solution so early on 👏🏻

I'm enjoying that fact that even though Signa is Not Like Other Girls, she's trying to be. And Death Himself is scolding her for it.

"She rather disliked puzzles, for she had a bad tendency to need to solve them. Life, she believed, would be much simpler if one had the answers all laid bare before them."

For a brief flicker, I thought she might have an ally in Cornelia, but I guess not.

The dramatic whodunit reveal!... set to the background thumping of "Barbie Girl"

And ANOTHER family embroiled across generations

I'm claiming Loz for the SCA. I can think of half a dozen Vikings like him.

Drive-by auntie-ing, I know this well

“Because this is what happens when you go out into the world—when we go out into the world, Ann. We lose. The deck is always stacked against us.” -- a lovely sentiment from the main character's mother. It's no wonder why she fled to a different coast

“Have you had a chance yet to talk to any of these other gossips about what we might be able to expect today?” Aruna said.

“I think they prefer to be called scholars,” said Rachel.

“We’ll find it. Eventually, we’ll find it. The deck, the document. The truth. The thing that will unlock it for us. We’ll find it.”

There was something in his voice, a pushing thinness that belied what every researcher knew: the thing may no longer exist.

"Here’s the thing about having a single key: it begets another."

"Why do I continue to offer this woman aid when I’ve seen what she becomes when there are no fetters on her? But I know. The same reason I obeyed my mother all my life: hope of love. Approval."

“The castle isn’t haunted,” Nicky said, picking up on my thoughts. “It’s just itself.”

The style is a bit off-putting, but I'm finding a lot to like about Bridie

Well, that was frankly terrifying

Welp, there went her support system and all the common sense in the county, off to New Orleans

Well, the bloom is coming off that rose quite quickly

"Dawa appreciated the compromise and set forth her terms: “Stay away from Annapurna, K2, and Nanga Parbat”—the most dangerous mountains—“and you may climb Everest and the others.” - a Sherpani wife's idea of a good compromise

"The next significant incursion, after the potato, was Edmund Hillary." - ok, they have a way with words

What does it take to shake Jane? EVA combat. Which, fair

In which the AI of a spaceship acts stoned out of their mind

There have been half a dozen instances where more tension, action, and drama could be injected into the plotline so far, but that's not the story Chambers is trying to tell.

Odds Mister Shadow is trying to stop another tragedy?

Waking up to The Sound of Music soundtrack playing mysteriously in your creepy house? Too right that's scary

And now we're playing Portal?