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”He could bring down the empire.”
“Don’t I know it.” I all but dance through the doorway, into the harsh winter daylight, and tip him a mock salute in dismissal. “Good thing I’m on my way out.”
girl how? you didn’t figure out anything

“Think he knows how to swim in those irons?” I ask Poldi.
Poldi and I wait a moment, watching the river. The surface doesn’t break.
“Doesn’t look like it,” he hisses.
I give it another beat or two, then turn and head back inside. “Eh. He’ll figure it out. Hopefully before the waterfall. Let’s go get you some mead.”

”I can do what she never did, not all the times her mother had too much mead and struck out because I was just there, not when Irmgard had me whipped for nothing, not even once.
I can save her. Like she never saved me.”

did not expect a suggestive wurst scene

what are these spellings? glohwein? rohtpfenni? frohlein?

”My name was—is—Vanja. And this is the story of how I got caught.”
her name being vanja makes me think german fantasy land that includes the slavic peoples ruled by them? pls say yes

should’ve read the blurb at least, did not expect a german fantasy land (there’s a “prinzessin” on every page to remind us)

”To the gremlin girls,
I would like to tell you something inspiring,
but the truth is, when life closes a door for us,
it doesn’t always open a window.
The good news is:
That’s what bricks are for.”
oh I like this dedication