Marie clasped her hands together and looked
vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is
when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I
might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.”
She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron
frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter.
“And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage
one of the good pans by smacking it
against your thick, common skull until you tell
me!“
(from Agatha H.
& the Clockwork Princess, by Phil & Kaja Foglio)
8½*/10. The full review is here.
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