Reading

The library bought the ebook of Natasha Pulley’s The Lost Future Of Pepperharrow for me, since of course I can’t go to the library and check out the paper book. I quite enjoyed it; in particular, it has fanfiction levels of mutual idiot pining, which was lovely. When Thaniel was introduced in the previous book, he was a clerk, and apparently my default picture of clerks is tall and skinny and frail-looking, but this book makes clear that he’s a great bruiser with a Northern accent. He is, in fact, more or less Alec the gamekeeper from Maurice.

It occurred to me that Mori, the clairvoyant, is about ten-ish years older than Thaniel, meaning that when he was about Six’s age, he might have felt the world rearranging itself because of a birth that just happened in another country, and then I had some feelings,