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“...I like imagining a circumstance where I could walk away and tell King Etristo to eat dirt.”

For a long moment, both boys stare at me, mouths agape. Finally, Erik begins to laugh and a moment later Soren joins in.

“Eat dirt?” Erik asks. “Is that the worst insult you can come up with?”

“I don’t think I’ve told someone to eat dirt since I was six years old,” Soren adds.

Now WHERE have I heard an exchange like this before???? Hmmmm.

OH YEAH.

You know, where Elle and Emmett are in the car? Where she calls him a butthead?

I cackled.

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Moved onto Lady Smoke AND THEO IS A BADASS BITCH.

She [Dragonsbane] looks at me with narrowed eyes. “You’re playing a dangerous game,” she says.

It takes effort to hold back a laugh. “I’ve played worse.”

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Reading Ash Princess for the first time and well “You’re a lamb in the lions den, child. You’re surviving. Isn’t that enough?” Hits pretty damn hard.

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So here I am, proofreading my friend’s novel, and tearing it to shreds.