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So! We've settled into our three main characters now.

Miryem has been struggling as new wife to the Starric lord. She would not like to have sex with him, and he's just as displeased, though forging ahead anyway, when she proposes a trade. He will answer three of her questions every night, and she will give up that specific right of marriage each night.

Because she's set such a high 'price' on her questions, this does result in no one else daring to answer Any Questions At All from her. So she's learning to be a bit more commanding, but still bumping into fairy rules around every corner.

Now Irina. She's also struggling as a new wife, but for her she knows that if she ever spends the night with her new husband that she will be killed and fed to the fire demon. However, she's doing pretty good with slipping in and out of mirrors to hide from him. It's just so Cold inside the mirrors.

But, as he gets more and more frustrated each night, the Czar gets her old nurse to use as leverage, or to tide over the hungry fire. Both work for him.

And over to Wanda. She and her brother were running away from the village, and end up running into the woods to get away from the dogs they have tracking them. They nearly freeze, but then find a tiny hut, mostly filled with mold, but also with a working oven. So they hunker down for a bit.

Only useful items keep appearing out of nowhere... Surely gifted by some witch or fairy who will curse them instead should they not repay. So instead of leaving after a night, they start fixing up the hut, making food that some vanishes, and finding more useful items.

But they're coming all together~

Cause Miryem has demanded to go out driving, hoping to find Some way to visit her village again. It doesn't work, but she does see two people once they're out far enough the carriage driver is acting scared to just Be there. And she recognizes one! It's Irina!

See, Irina has slipped through a mirror into the Starric realm each time, and this time she brought her nurse to keep her safe. Only the silver jewelry is only keeping Irina safe from the cold, not the nurse.

So since Irina's husband is causing issues cause of a fire demon, and Miryem's husband is causing problems cause he's an ice fairy, they're gonna try to shove them at each other and hope they both die in the fight.

Now details of this plan? A lot more vague.

Miryem had promised her cousin (who's marrying the jeweler) earlier in the book to dance at her wedding, and she uses this promise to ask the Starric lord if he will take her. He says Only if she turns three storerooms of silver into gold first.

Now I'm pretty sure they forget Miryem again, and just remember that they planned to go, and the wedding is a good thing to go to. But I'm sure they'll remember again.

And it's a good thing they leave, cause the village people are struggling with winter lasting into the spring, and one of their friends being killed by his children who they can't find, and they are going full steam on antisemitism to vent that struggle.

The guy who's driving the carriage is instructed not to let them out of his sight, so he can stop any attempts at 'helping convicted criminals'.

Irina has Well set up the fire demon to attack and consume the Starric king. And managed to organize herself the politics around succession in a way for her to remain Czarina and in good position after the Czar dies. And! Set up a sneaky run away path just in case.

Miryem managed to turn all three storerooms of silver into gold! She was clever and found a loophole, having her Starric servants move a whole load of the silver out of the storerooms. She's now on the way to the wedding with the Starric lord.

Her servants are now bondsmen/women to her, which is a special fairy thing. And she got to give a child Starric a true name 🥰🥰🥰 It was Precious 🥹

Meanwhile, Miryem's parents have stumbled upon Wanda and her brother, and managed to lose their tail, so they all go together to the big town, and they're gonna attend the wedding too.

So wedding night comes, and the two magic people are brought together. There's a good long fight, with all our main characters pitching in, and it swings one way, and then another. In the end though, neither is dead. The Starric lord is captured by the fire demon within the Czar, who intends to eat him slowly, or else torture his name from him so he can take over his land.

So... if/when he escapes that'll be a Problem. And also now the fire demon is very powered up.

Also, there is Something connecting the Starric getting and keeping gold that has to do with how long they can keep it being winter. Very unclear what, exactly, but there Is a connection.

One, for their part in the events of the wedding, Wanda and siblings have been given a full pardon from father-killing crimes, and also permission to own and pass on as much land in the woods as they can live on and work. They intend to ask Miryem's family to join them, and go back to the mysterious little hut, and expand it and build a lil farm around it.

Two, Spring is coming back! And it's coming in Fast. It was supposed to be mid spring, and it Is now mid spring, regardless of the loss of early spring.

Three, Miryem is starting to get real worried for the Starric. After all, even with the pain their nobility have inflicted on humans, there's still a whole land of people that are Not the nobility, and don't deserve to be killed and taken over by fire demon. And she knows some of them personally now. She knows they have goodness in them. She's attached. She's their queen. She's responsible.

So now she's going to break the Starric lord out of prison.

So! We've settled into our three main characters now.

Miryem has been struggling as new wife to the Starric lord. She would not like to have sex with him, and he's just as displeased, though forging ahead anyway, when she proposes a trade. He will answer three of her questions every night, and she will give up that specific right of marriage each night.

Because she's set such a high 'price' on her questions, this does result in no one else daring to answer Any Questions At All from her. So she's learning to be a bit more commanding, but still bumping into fairy rules around every corner.

Now Irina. She's also struggling as a new wife, but for her she knows that if she ever spends the night with her new husband that she will be killed and fed to the fire demon. However, she's doing pretty good with slipping in and out of mirrors to hide from him. It's just so Cold inside the mirrors.

But, as he gets more and more frustrated each night, the Czar gets her old nurse to use as leverage, or to tide over the hungry fire. Both work for him.

And over to Wanda. She and her brother were running away from the village, and end up running into the woods to get away from the dogs they have tracking them. They nearly freeze, but then find a tiny hut, mostly filled with mold, but also with a working oven. So they hunker down for a bit.

Only useful items keep appearing out of nowhere... Surely gifted by some witch or fairy who will curse them instead should they not repay. So instead of leaving after a night, they start fixing up the hut, making food that some vanishes, and finding more useful items.

But they're coming all together~

Cause Miryem has demanded to go out driving, hoping to find Some way to visit her village again. It doesn't work, but she does see two people once they're out far enough the carriage driver is acting scared to just Be there. And she recognizes one! It's Irina!

See, Irina has slipped through a mirror into the Starric realm each time, and this time she brought her nurse to keep her safe. Only the silver jewelry is only keeping Irina safe from the cold, not the nurse.

So since Irina's husband is causing issues cause of a fire demon, and Miryem's husband is causing problems cause he's an ice fairy, they're gonna try to shove them at each other and hope they both die in the fight.

Now details of this plan? A lot more vague.

Miryem had promised her cousin (who's marrying the jeweler) earlier in the book to dance at her wedding, and she uses this promise to ask the Starric lord if he will take her. He says Only if she turns three storerooms of silver into gold first.

Now I'm pretty sure they forget Miryem again, and just remember that they planned to go, and the wedding is a good thing to go to. But I'm sure they'll remember again.

And it's a good thing they leave, cause the village people are struggling with winter lasting into the spring, and one of their friends being killed by his children who they can't find, and they are going full steam on antisemitism to vent that struggle.

The guy who's driving the carriage is instructed not to let them out of his sight, so he can stop any attempts at 'helping convicted criminals'.

Irina has Well set up the fire demon to attack and consume the Starric king. And managed to organize herself the politics around succession in a way for her to remain Czarina and in good position after the Czar dies. And! Set up a sneaky run away path just in case.

Miryem managed to turn all three storerooms of silver into gold! She was clever and found a loophole, having her Starric servants move a whole load of the silver out of the storerooms. She's now on the way to the wedding with the Starric lord.

Her servants are now bondsmen/women to her, which is a special fairy thing. And she got to give a child Starric a true name 🥰🥰🥰 It was Precious 🥹

Meanwhile, Miryem's parents have stumbled upon Wanda and her brother, and managed to lose their tail, so they all go together to the big town, and they're gonna attend the wedding too.

So wedding night comes, and the two magic people are brought together. There's a good long fight, with all our main characters pitching in, and it swings one way, and then another. In the end though, neither is dead. The Starric lord is captured by the fire demon within the Czar, who intends to eat him slowly, or else torture his name from him so he can take over his land.

So... if/when he escapes that'll be a Problem. And also now the fire demon is very powered up.

Also, there is Something connecting the Starric getting and keeping gold that has to do with how long they can keep it being winter. Very unclear what, exactly, but there Is a connection.

So! We've settled into our three main characters now.

Miryem has been struggling as new wife to the Starric lord. She would not like to have sex with him, and he's just as displeased, though forging ahead anyway, when she proposes a trade. He will answer three of her questions every night, and she will give up that specific right of marriage each night.

Because she's set such a high 'price' on her questions, this does result in no one else daring to answer Any Questions At All from her. So she's learning to be a bit more commanding, but still bumping into fairy rules around every corner.

Now Irina. She's also struggling as a new wife, but for her she knows that if she ever spends the night with her new husband that she will be killed and fed to the fire demon. However, she's doing pretty good with slipping in and out of mirrors to hide from him. It's just so Cold inside the mirrors.

But, as he gets more and more frustrated each night, the Czar gets her old nurse to use as leverage, or to tide over the hungry fire. Both work for him.

And over to Wanda. She and her brother were running away from the village, and end up running into the woods to get away from the dogs they have tracking them. They nearly freeze, but then find a tiny hut, mostly filled with mold, but also with a working oven. So they hunker down for a bit.

Only useful items keep appearing out of nowhere... Surely gifted by some witch or fairy who will curse them instead should they not repay. So instead of leaving after a night, they start fixing up the hut, making food that some vanishes, and finding more useful items.

But they're coming all together~

Cause Miryem has demanded to go out driving, hoping to find Some way to visit her village again. It doesn't work, but she does see two people once they're out far enough the carriage driver is acting scared to just Be there. And she recognizes one! It's Irina!

See, Irina has slipped through a mirror into the Starric realm each time, and this time she brought her nurse to keep her safe. Only the silver jewelry is only keeping Irina safe from the cold, not the nurse.

So since Irina's husband is causing issues cause of a fire demon, and Miryem's husband is causing problems cause he's an ice fairy, they're gonna try to shove them at each other and hope they both die in the fight.

Now details of this plan? A lot more vague.

Miryem had promised her cousin (who's marrying the jeweler) earlier in the book to dance at her wedding, and she uses this promise to ask the Starric lord if he will take her. He says Only if she turns three storerooms of silver into gold first.

Now I'm pretty sure they forget Miryem again, and just remember that they planned to go, and the wedding is a good thing to go to. But I'm sure they'll remember again.

And it's a good thing they leave, cause the village people are struggling with winter lasting into the spring, and one of their friends being killed by his children who they can't find, and they are going full steam on antisemitism to vent that struggle.

The guy who's driving the carriage is instructed not to let them out of his sight, so he can stop any attempts at 'helping convicted criminals'.

Irina has Well set up the fire demon to attack and consume the Starric king. And managed to organize herself the politics around succession in a way for her to remain Czarina and in good position after the Czar dies. And! Set up a sneaky run away path just in case.

Miryem managed to turn all three storerooms of silver into gold! She was clever and found a loophole, having her Starric servants move a whole load of the silver out of the storerooms. She's now on the way to the wedding with the Starric lord.

Her servants are now bondsmen/women to her, which is a special fairy thing. And she got to give a child Starric a true name 🥰🥰🥰 It was Precious 🥹

Meanwhile, Miryem's parents have stumbled upon Wanda and her brother, and managed to lose their tail, so they all go together to the big town, and they're gonna attend the wedding too.