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Truly, the Summit idiocy is worse than calling in the army for our six feet of snow back in '99. I need a sane city to move to.

Meanwhile, finished Moon Shadow etc and started Eastern Sea God. Discover that kirin stop growing at the age when they first learn to change shape-- which makes me think I'm misremembering First Taiki where everyone seemed in a taking because this ickle kid-kirin *couldn't* change shape. Or else I'm reading Eastern Sea God wrong, which is very possible. Whatever, this makes me want to drop ESG and go read Bratqueen of Kyou!! because *her* kirin is ancient, poor man. And I assume the fact that he couldn't change shape for decades must be dealt with somewhere along the way. Alas, BQoK is big thick book not suited to lugging about in the backpack, so shall persevere with the confusing and grasshoppery ESG. (Have not seen that arc of the anime, is why I wanted to read the book first.)

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BQoK if it's the book I think it is, 圖南之翼, doesn't deal with the kirin at all.

Err-- wut? It's about a girl who sets out to become ruler of 恭, yes? And 恭麒 doesn't appear in all its 400-some pages? (throws book away.)

I have to go look, but if I recall correctly, the 恭麒 doesn't appear until the very end of the book and only has about a half a page. More info later this weekend.

Thank you. I shall be terribly disappointed if it's all about spunky! girl spending 370 pages just getting to the place where the kirin can say Yup, you're the one.

So. The main story ends on page 426, it's a half page long. 恭麒 appears on page 424, he speaks 5 lines, most of which are not full sentences, and that starts on page 425. So yes, it's all about spunky! girl just getting to the place where the kirin can say "Yup, you're the one." and spunky! girl says "You asshole." Fin.

It's an interesting read, rather ... an interesting way to lecture on theories of benevolent dictatorships, governance, and personal arrogance. Along with a ton of death and cute monsters. And camping adventures.

Arghity argh, poli sci is not what I want in my novels. (Nor camping adventures either. Nor death.) There was too much discussion of kingship and its perils in Second Taiki; I really don't need any more. Tolkien constructed Middle Earth to have a venue for his languages. Ono constructed the 12 kingdoms to have a background for her political theories. Discuss.

Shall stick with En of En being a twit, then, and Enki being a brat, and various court officials lecturing them about it in various levels of respect language. (Or not. At first audience Goading Boar calls the king... kisama, is it? And then goes home to await execution, but-of-course.)

LOL! BQoK is one of the few books that I wound up skimming. There is some good in it, the son of what's-that-country with the whole family running it turns up and plays a major supporting role for a bit and he's a very interesting character.

Alas that my response to most 12K countries is 'what's that country that...' The communally ruling family sounds intriguing, but I'm still not going to wade through much camping amid monsters to find it. Some other day. (Bells, vague bells. There's a country where IIRC the king was deposed, and it's not Hou whence Whiner 1 came, because the King's family are quite happy being common people and working towards the common good. Shall google.)

奏, but I'm sure you've found that info already.

Yes, thanks. Google Knows All, or almost all; occasionally it only knows it in Japanese. However, apparentlythe Sou family shows up in the short stories, which I'm now reading as an alternative to brat queens and brat kirins both.

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