The morning was cold, and Katsa was wide awake, and quiet. For she was shy of her riding partner; and she felt strange about Raffin, so strange that she wished he wasn’t there. …dafuq is going on with that punctuation? So Katsa and Po get ready to leave, and Katsa is confused by these weird…

Katsa, upon returning home, confronts Po about his mindreading powers.  He counters that he’s not a mindreader, he’s a super mindreader. “No, Katsa. Listen. I sense people. Think of it as my night vision, Katsa, or the eyes in the back of my head you’ve accused me of having. I sense people when they’re near…

Last line of Ch 12: And tried to shake off the eerie sense that he had just answered something she’d thought, rather than something she’d said. First line of Ch 13: Not that it was the first time he’d left her with that feeling. Dafuq did you even put in a chapter break for?  Those…

King Randa comes to watch Katsa and Po fight one day, and this is greatly distracting to Katsa, because even though she’s (almost) literally untouchable, she’s still scared of him.  He…hasn’t done anything that we know of to warrant this fear, not even when she was small enough that he could have, but we’re going…

A couple of weeks (?) later, Po and Katsa hang out.  Po casually asks Katsa what she’ll do when Giddon gets up the nerve to propose to her.  Katsa, finally showing her socially oblivious chops that we’ve heard so much about, is baffled by the very obvious fact that Giddon is smitten with her. “No,”…