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Every time someone disrespects Kip in front of his radiancy my brain starts gibbering, "the last person who did this got turned into a table! A table!!!! Do you not know about the table?!?! Oh my god they don't know about the table" and this is absolutely as Victoria Goddard intended

Also relatedly I love how throughout this book the magic is either a) big serious ritual workings of cosmic infrastructural importance or for 2) normal everyday household tasks and then bam! Somebody gets turned into a table, an act of the most whimsical unhinged Howl Movingcastle-esque chaos imaginable done with a completely straight face by actual God(TM) and then nothing like that ever happens again and it is never explained or referenced in any way

Anyway, me @ his radiancy:

that stretch of chapters when the emperor is having his sad boy breakdown and cliopher tries to call the emperor "tor" instead of "my lord" but can't quite break the habit so he ends up saying "my tor" instead ........