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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?
Venka seemed like someone who would have already begun menstruating. But Rin would have died rather than ask her how she’d managed it.
She has just learned about the process but can already judge who may or may not have gotten it?
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.
thirty-five received bids for apprenticeship.
Thats 70% not 80. Keep numbers accurate
On the fifteenth day she became convinced that her consciousness had expanded to encompass the totality of life on the planet—the
A family, arms still around each other, impaled upon the same spear. Babies lying at the bottoms of vats, their skin a horrible shade of crimson, floating in the water in which they’d boiled to death.
Not needed. Felt like the capital pods in the hunger games. Too much gore and it loses its impact.
Thousands and thousands of names. Names dating past the reign of the Dragon Emperor. Names dating past the Red Emperor himself.
Another case of too much. I understand it goes back centuries. But more people would know about shaman if there were that many.
