*le sign*
Anyways, we pick up again after the cut to find Niko and Briar a few days into their journey to
Fear my GIFs.
After Briar's lovely bath(I will never stop.), he and Niko sit down to a wonderful, rich feast, and Niko says offhandedly that feeding Briar would get too expensive if he has to keep paying the thugs to bathe him.
Niko... isn't very good with children, is he? I mean, he's written as this benevolent, wise, old thirty something, who just... keeps choosing the option that lets him be a huge ass for the good of the children... I would say that these kids would grow up messed up just for that, but in a couple of series/books/years they come in and they are so messed up it makes all my jokes retroactively not funny. (Although that might be a good thing, considering all the Niko/Briar I could be pointing out, I mean damn.)
(I think I'll just sink that ship right here actually.
If only to use that GIF.)
In the meantime, Niko taunted Briar with the uprooted plants he had hidden under his bed and tells him of the fancy, new-fangled glasshouse at Winding Circle. Briar becomes oddly willing to travel with Niko, and drinks are shared all around.
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In the tag end of the chapter (FINALLY), Tris is....also.... traveling with Niko? Well, it's a good thing some time context is given so this doesn't seem like a big jumbled mess.
Laughing Hermione agrees.
They are on a ship!
Uhhhhhh yeah. They talk about winds being bound in rope by Ethnic Minority Wizards (Won't be important for many more books) and Tris has an encounter with St. Elmo's fire and cares more about looking stupid in front of everyone else and not acting like she cares. It's just... one of those....not really sartirish parts. The chapter itself ends rather sudde
