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Followed the author here from Twitter, and I'm quite pleased I did. I couldn't stop reading once I started. I ought to be asleep, but it was well worth staying up too late for.
She could stand on her feet. She could withstand the pressure. She was no longer alone.I was a little worried towards the ending that it wouldn't be positive, but thankfully I was wrong. I really enjoyed this short story and I loved Aniyé's character.
I basically liked everything about this and just wished it were longer!I especially liked the vivid descriptions of bodies, of magic and of the interactions between those two.
This was so good! A battle mage trained to kill with her power is taken in by a powerful mage from the opposite side of the war as her apprentice, and slowly learns to value herself as a person instead of just her power and to turn her power to other things than destruction as a flood threatens the city. It's incredibly refreshing to read a non-abusive magic training story where the teaching mage genuinely cares about her apprentice, respects her, and doesn't need to die for the apprentice to le...
3.5 stars.very interesting exploration of finding yourself and learning to make your own choices, and setting boundaries to manage the energy you are able to expend in a fantasy context and the use and abuse of magic as the metaphor.i wish i loved it more, but personally did not have a lot of feels while reading.
A subtle, clever story of recovery and control.