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Call me Kiera! She/her and Fae/fem, 25, Christian, Demi-Ace, Polyamorous. I’m an author of soft fantasy novels, and also a fanfiction writer with a bunch of Sanders Sides fics. Support me on Kofi! Check out my AO3! Header image is of me and my husband, commissioned from @monstru99 for our anniversary 🥰

[kieraelieson]

Important Things

My AO3

My most organized Fic Masterpost

I have a website!

I've Published Books!!!

Wanna trade a book with me?

Wanna get me a gift to make me happy?

Blanket Permission Statement

If I’ve asked you for permission to podfic

I want to Podfic Finished Podfics

Questions or asks about any existing universes or plans are always loved!

Prompts are Open! (But may take a while)

You can support my creative work on Patreon!

Tags to look into:

#my own work, it has most everything I make.

#kiera’s bthb, for a bad things happen bingo game!

#kiera’s mtiyos contest, to make something from prompts, but in your own style!

#learning to art, where I try things sometimes.

#Kiera out loud, where I experiment with podfic

#kiera’s moodboards, where I make moodboards based on stories and characters.

#kiera’s crafts, where I make fun things.

Game tags:

#flowers for writing, where I post flower emojis as I write.

#little helpers, where you can send me little things to help me out while I work!

#work and new songs, where you can suggest songs for me to listen too while I work.

#ask game, where you will probably learn a bunch of new little facts about me and my stories.

Sideblogs:

(I have quite a few, and I’m not active on all of them)

@kieraswriting For most of my complete fics and series.

@yell0w-and-purpl3 An aesthetic blog.

@babysidesappreciation For Sanders Sides, but babies.

@noalthegorgon A whole new world I’m building with a friend, focusing on a Gorgon named Noal.

@the-taglist-repository A blog for creating communal tag lists I made with another friend.

@ask-me-and-my-annoying-roommate A g/t Sanders Sides ask blog.

@why-not-a-tickle-blog A Sanders Sides tickle blog.

@itaina-anta A non-fandom whump blog.

@lessthansafe Where my less than safe for work content will go. Probably mostly Sanders Sides, but I may write some original work there someday too. 18+ Only, minors will be blocked.

[kieraelieson]

I managed to get two more free library cards :D

Behold my riches!

[kieraelieson]

Check out this website for free library cards!

Your library might have deals with other libraries you don't know of, and there are also some across the US that just let you have a card if you ask!

https://reciprocard.com/unlock-libby/free-cards#free-cards-anyone-in-the-us-can-get

The more cards you have on Libby, the less you have to wait on holds! And libraries benefit from more people using them.

[kieraelieson]

I managed to get two more free library cards :D

Behold my riches!

[fruitbird15]

After reading Project Hail Mary, I got the Brain Worms and I've just realized something:

We know that Grace is always going on about how talented and skilled Rocky is, but there's a line in the book I feel I should bring up.

"You have idea already. Not question. I know you. You have idea already. Tell idea."

-page 396

Rocky thinks exactly the same about Grace and his science skills. He has just as much unwavering trust in his capacity to think their way out of a problem as Grace has in Rocky's engineering skills.

I am unwell.

[nyenye0701]

some descriptions and body language of book rocky from memory

[deadgravity]

Book!Grace is such a little weirdo, I have many drawings of him to share.

[kieraelieson]

I've finished the book! And now, as promised~

Spinning Silver Review

5/5 Amazing book :D

It had a beautiful blend of twists I didn't see coming and tropes where I knew more or less what would come next and could excitedly anticipate. I loved each of the main characters, and their arcs were so fun to see! I really enjoyed how it felt very Jewish and Russian, and all the cultural differences beyond my familiarity. I love the ways they did the magic, it felt both grounded and also mystical cannot understand. I enjoyed the several arcs the book went through, and the way it waxed and waned tension. I love how we have some characters that are implied to be gay and ace.

If I had one complaint, it would be Wanda and siblings. For me, they hit a poor medium of too much pov time and importance to be minor characters, but not enough pov time and importance to be main characters. I was particularly sad that when chekov's nut did its thing that it was passed off to Miryem and Irina, and none of the siblings did it.

That said, my complaint is minor. This book had me hooked and invested from start to finish! And the ending was Super cute!!! Very satisfying and wrapped up all the ends very cleanly.

[kieraelieson]

Spinning Silver: Some more liveblogging

I already spoiled the first 1/4-1/3 of the book in my last chain, and it got Long, so I'll use readmores in this one.

So! We've settled into our three main characters now.

Miryem has been struggling as new wife to the Starric lord. She would not like to have sex with him, and he's just as displeased, though forging ahead anyway, when she proposes a trade. He will answer three of her questions every night, and she will give up that specific right of marriage each night.

Because she's set such a high 'price' on her questions, this does result in no one else daring to answer Any Questions At All from her. So she's learning to be a bit more commanding, but still bumping into fairy rules around every corner.

Now Irina. She's also struggling as a new wife, but for her she knows that if she ever spends the night with her new husband that she will be killed and fed to the fire demon. However, she's doing pretty good with slipping in and out of mirrors to hide from him. It's just so Cold inside the mirrors.

But, as he gets more and more frustrated each night, the Czar gets her old nurse to use as leverage, or to tide over the hungry fire. Both work for him.

And over to Wanda. She and her brother were running away from the village, and end up running into the woods to get away from the dogs they have tracking them. They nearly freeze, but then find a tiny hut, mostly filled with mold, but also with a working oven. So they hunker down for a bit.

Only useful items keep appearing out of nowhere... Surely gifted by some witch or fairy who will curse them instead should they not repay. So instead of leaving after a night, they start fixing up the hut, making food that some vanishes, and finding more useful items.

But they're coming all together~

Cause Miryem has demanded to go out driving, hoping to find Some way to visit her village again. It doesn't work, but she does see two people once they're out far enough the carriage driver is acting scared to just Be there. And she recognizes one! It's Irina!

See, Irina has slipped through a mirror into the Starric realm each time, and this time she brought her nurse to keep her safe. Only the silver jewelry is only keeping Irina safe from the cold, not the nurse.

Miryem insists that they pick them up, and that the carriage driver take them to the nearest shelter. He's very reluctant, but doesn't refuse an order from the queen. They find a tiny hut, surprisingly warm and maintained, with a fresh pot of food on the stove. They bundle the nurse in and get her to eat so she warms up a bit. The carriage driver is flinching at everything now, so they're stamping all over fairy rules for sure.

[kieraelieson]

Ohhhh, they got a plannnnnn~ :D

So since Irina's husband is causing issues cause of a fire demon, and Miryem's husband is causing problems cause he's an ice fairy, they're gonna try to shove them at each other and hope they both die in the fight.

Now details of this plan? A lot more vague.

Miryem had promised her cousin (who's marrying the jeweler) earlier in the book to dance at her wedding, and she uses this promise to ask the Starric lord if he will take her. He says Only if she turns three storerooms of silver into gold first.

Irina meanwhile is trying to gentle and confuse and logic the Czar out of wringing her neck when she shows up out of nowhere Again, and I think she will persuade him that if they go to the same big town that the wedding will be at, there will be some kingdom benefit, it will avoid war. She's also trying to turn his anger towards the Starric, so he'll be primed for fighting one on sight when he sees one.

[kieraelieson]

We got a look over to Miryem's parents and Wanda's youngest brother. The fairy magics are making them forget Miryem a Lot, but they manage to remember for a minute, and remember her excuse she gave when she knew she was about to be carried off, that she's visiting her grandfather. And also the boy is hoping to find his older siblings there too, cause they were gonna ask the grandfather for a job.

Now I'm pretty sure they forget Miryem again, and just remember that they planned to go, and the wedding is a good thing to go to. But I'm sure they'll remember again.

And it's a good thing they leave, cause the village people are struggling with winter lasting into the spring, and one of their friends being killed by his children who they can't find, and they are going full steam on antisemitism to vent that struggle.

The guy who's driving the carriage is instructed not to let them out of his sight, so he can stop any attempts at 'helping convicted criminals'.

Oh and also, Wanda's youngest brother has a probably-magical nut. His Mom's ghost has been hanging around a white tree she was buried under, and it made a nut when he and his siblings had to leave home. He's been keeping it, and wants to plant it in a place where they can all live together, so his mom can keep watching over them.

[kieraelieson]

The wedding is tonight!

Irina has Well set up the fire demon to attack and consume the Starric king. And managed to organize herself the politics around succession in a way for her to remain Czarina and in good position after the Czar dies. And! Set up a sneaky run away path just in case.

Miryem managed to turn all three storerooms of silver into gold! She was clever and found a loophole, having her Starric servants move a whole load of the silver out of the storerooms. She's now on the way to the wedding with the Starric lord.

Her servants are now bondsmen/women to her, which is a special fairy thing. And she got to give a child Starric a true name 🥰🥰🥰 It was Precious 🥹

Meanwhile, Miryem's parents have stumbled upon Wanda and her brother, and managed to lose their tail, so they all go together to the big town, and they're gonna attend the wedding too.

We keep being reminded of the littlest brother's magic nut, so I'm eagerly waiting on that chekov's nut to go off :D

[kieraelieson]

Welp, I knew it couldn't be wrapping up so smoothly with so much book left.

So wedding night comes, and the two magic people are brought together. There's a good long fight, with all our main characters pitching in, and it swings one way, and then another. In the end though, neither is dead. The Starric lord is captured by the fire demon within the Czar, who intends to eat him slowly, or else torture his name from him so he can take over his land.

So... if/when he escapes that'll be a Problem. And also now the fire demon is very powered up.

Also, there is Something connecting the Starric getting and keeping gold that has to do with how long they can keep it being winter. Very unclear what, exactly, but there Is a connection.

But there's still a quarter of the book left to find things out~

[kieraelieson]

So now that the dust is settling a bit, a few things have happened.

One, for their part in the events of the wedding, Wanda and siblings have been given a full pardon from father-killing crimes, and also permission to own and pass on as much land in the woods as they can live on and work. They intend to ask Miryem's family to join them, and go back to the mysterious little hut, and expand it and build a lil farm around it.

Two, Spring is coming back! And it's coming in Fast. It was supposed to be mid spring, and it Is now mid spring, regardless of the loss of early spring.

Three, Miryem is starting to get real worried for the Starric. After all, even with the pain their nobility have inflicted on humans, there's still a whole land of people that are Not the nobility, and don't deserve to be killed and taken over by fire demon. And she knows some of them personally now. She knows they have goodness in them. She's attached. She's their queen. She's responsible.

So now she's going to break the Starric lord out of prison.

I sure hope he's real grateful or else she's got a planned deal to make to stop him from rampaging the second he's out. Cause he's clearly been warming up to her over time, but I don't know if I trust that enough for him not to get off a powerful parting shot to the mortals as he goes back home.

[kieraelieson]

Spinning Silver: Some more liveblogging

I already spoiled the first 1/4-1/3 of the book in my last chain, and it got Long, so I'll use readmores in this one.

So! We've settled into our three main characters now.

Miryem has been struggling as new wife to the Starric lord. She would not like to have sex with him, and he's just as displeased, though forging ahead anyway, when she proposes a trade. He will answer three of her questions every night, and she will give up that specific right of marriage each night.

Because she's set such a high 'price' on her questions, this does result in no one else daring to answer Any Questions At All from her. So she's learning to be a bit more commanding, but still bumping into fairy rules around every corner.

Now Irina. She's also struggling as a new wife, but for her she knows that if she ever spends the night with her new husband that she will be killed and fed to the fire demon. However, she's doing pretty good with slipping in and out of mirrors to hide from him. It's just so Cold inside the mirrors.

But, as he gets more and more frustrated each night, the Czar gets her old nurse to use as leverage, or to tide over the hungry fire. Both work for him.

And over to Wanda. She and her brother were running away from the village, and end up running into the woods to get away from the dogs they have tracking them. They nearly freeze, but then find a tiny hut, mostly filled with mold, but also with a working oven. So they hunker down for a bit.

Only useful items keep appearing out of nowhere... Surely gifted by some witch or fairy who will curse them instead should they not repay. So instead of leaving after a night, they start fixing up the hut, making food that some vanishes, and finding more useful items.

But they're coming all together~

Cause Miryem has demanded to go out driving, hoping to find Some way to visit her village again. It doesn't work, but she does see two people once they're out far enough the carriage driver is acting scared to just Be there. And she recognizes one! It's Irina!

See, Irina has slipped through a mirror into the Starric realm each time, and this time she brought her nurse to keep her safe. Only the silver jewelry is only keeping Irina safe from the cold, not the nurse.

Miryem insists that they pick them up, and that the carriage driver take them to the nearest shelter. He's very reluctant, but doesn't refuse an order from the queen. They find a tiny hut, surprisingly warm and maintained, with a fresh pot of food on the stove. They bundle the nurse in and get her to eat so she warms up a bit. The carriage driver is flinching at everything now, so they're stamping all over fairy rules for sure.

[kieraelieson]

Ohhhh, they got a plannnnnn~ :D

So since Irina's husband is causing issues cause of a fire demon, and Miryem's husband is causing problems cause he's an ice fairy, they're gonna try to shove them at each other and hope they both die in the fight.

Now details of this plan? A lot more vague.

Miryem had promised her cousin (who's marrying the jeweler) earlier in the book to dance at her wedding, and she uses this promise to ask the Starric lord if he will take her. He says Only if she turns three storerooms of silver into gold first.

Irina meanwhile is trying to gentle and confuse and logic the Czar out of wringing her neck when she shows up out of nowhere Again, and I think she will persuade him that if they go to the same big town that the wedding will be at, there will be some kingdom benefit, it will avoid war. She's also trying to turn his anger towards the Starric, so he'll be primed for fighting one on sight when he sees one.

[kieraelieson]

We got a look over to Miryem's parents and Wanda's youngest brother. The fairy magics are making them forget Miryem a Lot, but they manage to remember for a minute, and remember her excuse she gave when she knew she was about to be carried off, that she's visiting her grandfather. And also the boy is hoping to find his older siblings there too, cause they were gonna ask the grandfather for a job.

Now I'm pretty sure they forget Miryem again, and just remember that they planned to go, and the wedding is a good thing to go to. But I'm sure they'll remember again.

And it's a good thing they leave, cause the village people are struggling with winter lasting into the spring, and one of their friends being killed by his children who they can't find, and they are going full steam on antisemitism to vent that struggle.

The guy who's driving the carriage is instructed not to let them out of his sight, so he can stop any attempts at 'helping convicted criminals'.

Oh and also, Wanda's youngest brother has a probably-magical nut. His Mom's ghost has been hanging around a white tree she was buried under, and it made a nut when he and his siblings had to leave home. He's been keeping it, and wants to plant it in a place where they can all live together, so his mom can keep watching over them.

[kieraelieson]

The wedding is tonight!

Irina has Well set up the fire demon to attack and consume the Starric king. And managed to organize herself the politics around succession in a way for her to remain Czarina and in good position after the Czar dies. And! Set up a sneaky run away path just in case.

Miryem managed to turn all three storerooms of silver into gold! She was clever and found a loophole, having her Starric servants move a whole load of the silver out of the storerooms. She's now on the way to the wedding with the Starric lord.

Her servants are now bondsmen/women to her, which is a special fairy thing. And she got to give a child Starric a true name 🥰🥰🥰 It was Precious 🥹

Meanwhile, Miryem's parents have stumbled upon Wanda and her brother, and managed to lose their tail, so they all go together to the big town, and they're gonna attend the wedding too.

We keep being reminded of the littlest brother's magic nut, so I'm eagerly waiting on that chekov's nut to go off :D

[kieraelieson]

Welp, I knew it couldn't be wrapping up so smoothly with so much book left.

So wedding night comes, and the two magic people are brought together. There's a good long fight, with all our main characters pitching in, and it swings one way, and then another. In the end though, neither is dead. The Starric lord is captured by the fire demon within the Czar, who intends to eat him slowly, or else torture his name from him so he can take over his land.

So... if/when he escapes that'll be a Problem. And also now the fire demon is very powered up.

Also, there is Something connecting the Starric getting and keeping gold that has to do with how long they can keep it being winter. Very unclear what, exactly, but there Is a connection.

But there's still a quarter of the book left to find things out~

[kieraelieson]

Spinning Silver: Some more liveblogging

I already spoiled the first 1/4-1/3 of the book in my last chain, and it got Long, so I'll use readmores in this one.

So! We've settled into our three main characters now.

Miryem has been struggling as new wife to the Starric lord. She would not like to have sex with him, and he's just as displeased, though forging ahead anyway, when she proposes a trade. He will answer three of her questions every night, and she will give up that specific right of marriage each night.

Because she's set such a high 'price' on her questions, this does result in no one else daring to answer Any Questions At All from her. So she's learning to be a bit more commanding, but still bumping into fairy rules around every corner.

Now Irina. She's also struggling as a new wife, but for her she knows that if she ever spends the night with her new husband that she will be killed and fed to the fire demon. However, she's doing pretty good with slipping in and out of mirrors to hide from him. It's just so Cold inside the mirrors.

But, as he gets more and more frustrated each night, the Czar gets her old nurse to use as leverage, or to tide over the hungry fire. Both work for him.

And over to Wanda. She and her brother were running away from the village, and end up running into the woods to get away from the dogs they have tracking them. They nearly freeze, but then find a tiny hut, mostly filled with mold, but also with a working oven. So they hunker down for a bit.

Only useful items keep appearing out of nowhere... Surely gifted by some witch or fairy who will curse them instead should they not repay. So instead of leaving after a night, they start fixing up the hut, making food that some vanishes, and finding more useful items.

But they're coming all together~

Cause Miryem has demanded to go out driving, hoping to find Some way to visit her village again. It doesn't work, but she does see two people once they're out far enough the carriage driver is acting scared to just Be there. And she recognizes one! It's Irina!

See, Irina has slipped through a mirror into the Starric realm each time, and this time she brought her nurse to keep her safe. Only the silver jewelry is only keeping Irina safe from the cold, not the nurse.

Miryem insists that they pick them up, and that the carriage driver take them to the nearest shelter. He's very reluctant, but doesn't refuse an order from the queen. They find a tiny hut, surprisingly warm and maintained, with a fresh pot of food on the stove. They bundle the nurse in and get her to eat so she warms up a bit. The carriage driver is flinching at everything now, so they're stamping all over fairy rules for sure.

[kieraelieson]

Ohhhh, they got a plannnnnn~ :D

So since Irina's husband is causing issues cause of a fire demon, and Miryem's husband is causing problems cause he's an ice fairy, they're gonna try to shove them at each other and hope they both die in the fight.

Now details of this plan? A lot more vague.

Miryem had promised her cousin (who's marrying the jeweler) earlier in the book to dance at her wedding, and she uses this promise to ask the Starric lord if he will take her. He says Only if she turns three storerooms of silver into gold first.

Irina meanwhile is trying to gentle and confuse and logic the Czar out of wringing her neck when she shows up out of nowhere Again, and I think she will persuade him that if they go to the same big town that the wedding will be at, there will be some kingdom benefit, it will avoid war. She's also trying to turn his anger towards the Starric, so he'll be primed for fighting one on sight when he sees one.

[kieraelieson]

We got a look over to Miryem's parents and Wanda's youngest brother. The fairy magics are making them forget Miryem a Lot, but they manage to remember for a minute, and remember her excuse she gave when she knew she was about to be carried off, that she's visiting her grandfather. And also the boy is hoping to find his older siblings there too, cause they were gonna ask the grandfather for a job.

Now I'm pretty sure they forget Miryem again, and just remember that they planned to go, and the wedding is a good thing to go to. But I'm sure they'll remember again.

And it's a good thing they leave, cause the village people are struggling with winter lasting into the spring, and one of their friends being killed by his children who they can't find, and they are going full steam on antisemitism to vent that struggle.

The guy who's driving the carriage is instructed not to let them out of his sight, so he can stop any attempts at 'helping convicted criminals'.

Oh and also, Wanda's youngest brother has a probably-magical nut. His Mom's ghost has been hanging around a white tree she was buried under, and it made a nut when he and his siblings had to leave home. He's been keeping it, and wants to plant it in a place where they can all live together, so his mom can keep watching over them.

[kieraelieson]

The wedding is tonight!

Irina has Well set up the fire demon to attack and consume the Starric king. And managed to organize herself the politics around succession in a way for her to remain Czarina and in good position after the Czar dies. And! Set up a sneaky run away path just in case.

Miryem managed to turn all three storerooms of silver into gold! She was clever and found a loophole, having her Starric servants move a whole load of the silver out of the storerooms. She's now on the way to the wedding with the Starric lord.

Her servants are now bondsmen/women to her, which is a special fairy thing. And she got to give a child Starric a true name 🥰🥰🥰 It was Precious 🥹

Meanwhile, Miryem's parents have stumbled upon Wanda and her brother, and managed to lose their tail, so they all go together to the big town, and they're gonna attend the wedding too.

We keep being reminded of the littlest brother's magic nut, so I'm eagerly waiting on that chekov's nut to go off :D

[madebykyra]

Behold my Bee Dress, as photographed on my trip to Italy. It was a happy coincidence that my dress this year thematically aligned with my vacation plans!!!

[madebykyra]

My sister took more photos of my dress. I am very happy with how this turned out :)))))

Only one more weekend until the Renaissance Faire!!!!

[youthincare]

people should be allowed to have low ambition, and also be able to feed a family on the salary of a cashier at a convenience store.

[aetherograph]

And! We need cashiers. And convenience stores. And I think it's kind of broken that society says people who want to do stuff like that have "low" ambition (not you OP, I get you're using it illustratively because that's what society labels said jobs) and don't deserve to live at the same standard as people with "high" ambitions.

If we need someone to do a job, that job is a role in the community and deserves not just a salary but cultural respect for the role.

"high" ambition jobs are all jobs that involve domineering and controlling others. "low" ambition jobs are all jobs that involve service to others. Have you noticed? Because I have noticed.

But serving others is actually more needed than controlling them.

[the-haiku-bot]

But serving others

is actually more needed

than controlling them.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[kosmogrl]

[fucking-relax]

this is helpful to getting started on anything regardless of what you call it (from this post)

problem solving steps

IMPROVE distress tolerance skill

[heylsgowt]

[iraffiruse]

[furaffinity]

i’m so fucking pissed off at this picture

[stargh0st-deactivated20131025]

wwhat the fuck….

[tubaplaysmatt]

I FUCKING LOVE THIS

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

oh my god thank you for the second perspective, it honestly makes me feel way less stressed about this image, you have no idea

[smimon]

Here’s the second image again since it somehow disappeared in reblogs

[kieraelieson]

Spinning Silver: Some more liveblogging

I already spoiled the first 1/4-1/3 of the book in my last chain, and it got Long, so I'll use readmores in this one.

So! We've settled into our three main characters now.

Miryem has been struggling as new wife to the Starric lord. She would not like to have sex with him, and he's just as displeased, though forging ahead anyway, when she proposes a trade. He will answer three of her questions every night, and she will give up that specific right of marriage each night.

Because she's set such a high 'price' on her questions, this does result in no one else daring to answer Any Questions At All from her. So she's learning to be a bit more commanding, but still bumping into fairy rules around every corner.

Now Irina. She's also struggling as a new wife, but for her she knows that if she ever spends the night with her new husband that she will be killed and fed to the fire demon. However, she's doing pretty good with slipping in and out of mirrors to hide from him. It's just so Cold inside the mirrors.

But, as he gets more and more frustrated each night, the Czar gets her old nurse to use as leverage, or to tide over the hungry fire. Both work for him.

And over to Wanda. She and her brother were running away from the village, and end up running into the woods to get away from the dogs they have tracking them. They nearly freeze, but then find a tiny hut, mostly filled with mold, but also with a working oven. So they hunker down for a bit.

Only useful items keep appearing out of nowhere... Surely gifted by some witch or fairy who will curse them instead should they not repay. So instead of leaving after a night, they start fixing up the hut, making food that some vanishes, and finding more useful items.

But they're coming all together~

Cause Miryem has demanded to go out driving, hoping to find Some way to visit her village again. It doesn't work, but she does see two people once they're out far enough the carriage driver is acting scared to just Be there. And she recognizes one! It's Irina!

See, Irina has slipped through a mirror into the Starric realm each time, and this time she brought her nurse to keep her safe. Only the silver jewelry is only keeping Irina safe from the cold, not the nurse.

Miryem insists that they pick them up, and that the carriage driver take them to the nearest shelter. He's very reluctant, but doesn't refuse an order from the queen. They find a tiny hut, surprisingly warm and maintained, with a fresh pot of food on the stove. They bundle the nurse in and get her to eat so she warms up a bit. The carriage driver is flinching at everything now, so they're stamping all over fairy rules for sure.

[kieraelieson]

Ohhhh, they got a plannnnnn~ :D

So since Irina's husband is causing issues cause of a fire demon, and Miryem's husband is causing problems cause he's an ice fairy, they're gonna try to shove them at each other and hope they both die in the fight.

Now details of this plan? A lot more vague.

Miryem had promised her cousin (who's marrying the jeweler) earlier in the book to dance at her wedding, and she uses this promise to ask the Starric lord if he will take her. He says Only if she turns three storerooms of silver into gold first.

Irina meanwhile is trying to gentle and confuse and logic the Czar out of wringing her neck when she shows up out of nowhere Again, and I think she will persuade him that if they go to the same big town that the wedding will be at, there will be some kingdom benefit, it will avoid war. She's also trying to turn his anger towards the Starric, so he'll be primed for fighting one on sight when he sees one.

[kieraelieson]

We got a look over to Miryem's parents and Wanda's youngest brother. The fairy magics are making them forget Miryem a Lot, but they manage to remember for a minute, and remember her excuse she gave when she knew she was about to be carried off, that she's visiting her grandfather. And also the boy is hoping to find his older siblings there too, cause they were gonna ask the grandfather for a job.

Now I'm pretty sure they forget Miryem again, and just remember that they planned to go, and the wedding is a good thing to go to. But I'm sure they'll remember again.

And it's a good thing they leave, cause the village people are struggling with winter lasting into the spring, and one of their friends being killed by his children who they can't find, and they are going full steam on antisemitism to vent that struggle.

The guy who's driving the carriage is instructed not to let them out of his sight, so he can stop any attempts at 'helping convicted criminals'.

Oh and also, Wanda's youngest brother has a probably-magical nut. His Mom's ghost has been hanging around a white tree she was buried under, and it made a nut when he and his siblings had to leave home. He's been keeping it, and wants to plant it in a place where they can all live together, so his mom can keep watching over them.