Our three characters decide to find a good hiding place for the night and recover before going on their assassination mission.  Katsa hunts while Po and Bitterblue set up camp, and when she gets back she learns that Bitterblue still isn’t comfortable around Po because “I get the feeling she’s not used to men showing…

The next day they’re both antsy so they decide to start running again.  Fucking running. I just…I don’t know what to make of this.  I honestly don’t.  Travelling by foot is exhausting, and there are methods for how to deal with it, methods that basically stress the need for a consistent pace that can be…

Po and Katsa keep traveling, and as they do they keep practicing on how to use Po’s magic to communicate.  Apparently this involves Katsa “opening” her every thought and feeling to Po and trusting him to traipse through her brain and snatch up half-formed emotions that she barely understands herself. Hey, remember when Katsa had…

There were two ways to get to Leck City from the inn or from any point in Sunder. […] This route was traveled by merchants who carried goods, and most parties containing women, children, or the elderly. The other way was shorter but more difficult. Girl Power! We should teach girls to fight!  Feminism, yay!…

The farther south one rode into Sunder, the heavier and thicker the wood of the trees, and the stronger and more imposing the houses and inns. Katsa had not spent much time in central Sunder; her uncle had sent her there two or three times, perhaps. But the wild forests and simple, sturdy little towns,…