“Especially if you want to be indistinguishable from a native one day,” Gwenaëlle says, the reminder of her goal purposeful; the underline that Gwenaëlle has been paying attention to everything Ennaris says to her incidental, not the sort of thing it would occur to her needed underlining in particular.
That, obviously, is just a simple fact.
“You won't get there holding the mages at a distance. And Rowntree's a war criminal, depending on who you ask, so you could do worse than someone who thinks the sun shines out of his fiery arse for a gamble.” Despite the colourful description, she does sound — admiring, more than anything else. Of both of them, maybe, Julius and the Commander.
(Marcus Rowntree is so scary and cool.)
“My uncle — the magic he practises, it isn't blood magic, either, but he does magic and there's often a lot of blood. It's a tightrope that other people have walked before, in different ways. You have to be smart about it but you don't have to be alone.”
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That, obviously, is just a simple fact.
“You won't get there holding the mages at a distance. And Rowntree's a war criminal, depending on who you ask, so you could do worse than someone who thinks the sun shines out of his fiery arse for a gamble.” Despite the colourful description, she does sound — admiring, more than anything else. Of both of them, maybe, Julius and the Commander.
(Marcus Rowntree is so scary and cool.)
“My uncle — the magic he practises, it isn't blood magic, either, but he does magic and there's often a lot of blood. It's a tightrope that other people have walked before, in different ways. You have to be smart about it but you don't have to be alone.”