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Raggedy Ruby's avatar

Whoa! There are a lot of intense scenes in this book, but the horse haggling scene is almost too intense for me!

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Jeremy P. Madsen's avatar

I know what you mean. It's almost as if your very future is on the line---like your worth is being weighed in the balance!

Definitely the highest stakes of any scene in this whole book.

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Twigly the Barbaric's avatar

"Now, the whole city felt crowded, dirty, and overburdened."

Hmm. Sounds like my burrow growing up.

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Taliana the Aquamancer's avatar

I took the time to look up an official report on the construction of Meradov's walls, written by a firsthand imperial envoy and stored in the archives of the Craftsmen's Guild c. 4506.

The walls of Meradov are twenty feet thick at their base in certain places. They are, indeed, as thick as a small house.

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Salidar Aram's avatar

If Avir grow their hair to match their emotions, what does the red hair signify? Or is there an element of hereditary too?

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Jeremy P. Madsen's avatar

Great question. I realized that as I narrated it.

Red hair on an avir would suggest that they have a very feisty, rambunctious personality—probably part of why Durrin knew right away that this lad wasn't going to be a pushover in a haggle.

Hair color is not hereditary in avirs, though personality traits can be, thus why it was a reasonable assumption the girl was his sister.

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