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“Readers can surprise you. Many times, they notice layers in your stories, that even you were not aware of while writing.”

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“And Dani..." Ryker looked down at me and his eyes softened. "You're shaking." I was shaking. I hadn't used a spell in a fight before; actually, I hadn't used a spell successfully, ever. Solisarius, a burst of blinding sunlight. It was one of the things I'd studied when I'd found my old book in the hopes that it would hurt the vampires. But conjured light is no substitute for the real thing. "I did magic." The tremor in my voice betrayed me. "You did." Ryker leaned down to me closer to eye level as he wrapped an arm around me. I looked down at my hands, which still trembled from the magic. Was this what Mom felt? Did she like it? Was the rush of using her powers enough to keep her coming back for more?”

“Arcane trickery is the cruellest of all deceptions. The coward’s move in combat is to cast out magics from the mind and fingers, unseen, striking an enemy combatant off-guard. A nasty business that was outlawed in the very first year of King Bernard Gur’s rule over the newly conquered Gurav. Therefore, when judging a criminal for this offence, it is wise to not hold back. They are a danger to the honour and civility of Pantheran society.”

“In order to detach caste from the political economy, from conditions of enslavement in which most dalits lived and worked, in order to slide the questions of entitlement, land reforms and the redistribution of wealth, Hindu reformers cleverly narrowed the question of caste to the issue of untouchability. They framed it as an erroneous religious and cultural practice that needed to be reformed.”