This is my favorite part of Queen of Nothing and it is EXTREMELY UNDERATED!
Cardan saying to Jude “you probably guessed as much, but just in case you didn’t” is NOT just kind of thrown in there without reason. There is no doubt in my mind that him saying is extremely deliberate
Cardan loves Jude and he thinks so highly of her. He thinks that she’s smart and brilliant and he just assumes that she would have guessed that he is in love with her with out him needing to explicitly tell her. He assumes she knows.
Just like he assumed she would know that him banishing her was more of a joke and a bit of pay back rather than an actual banishment without him needing to explicitly tell her…
except she didn’t
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