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To travel alone over the Empire’s vast roads was a good way to get robbed, murdered, or eaten. Sometimes all three—and sometimes not in that order.
“By mixing sorghum wine with methanol.” “Methanol?” “Wood spirits. It’s poisonous stuff; in large doses it’ll make you go blind.” Tutor
“You’re a war orphan. You’re a southerner. You weren’t supposed to pass the Keju. The Warlords like to claim that the Keju makes Nikan a meritocracy, but the system is designed to keep the poor and illiterate in their place. You’re offending them with your very presence.”
It was a testament, perhaps, to the lack of sexual education in Tikany that Rin didn’t learn about menstruation until that morning. Over the next fifteen minutes, the physician’s assistant explained in detail the changes going on in Rin’s body, pointing to various places on the diagram and making some very vivid gestures with her hands.
Shes 16. Shes just now getting her period. And with no warning or symptoms it causes her to pass out?
Jun can teach you how to be a decent soldier. But I can teach you the key to the universe,” Jiang said grandly, before bumping his head on a low-hanging branch.
On the fifteenth day she became convinced that her consciousness had expanded to encompass the totality of life on the planet—the