Parapet

I already know.

It's a parapet.

Parapet, that's one? It was like a balcony one.

By the way, you finally got me to read The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, which I really liked.

I love it.

You do? Okay, so you're catching it.

And they're both kind of saying the same thing.

And even like they're mixing abyssal and common together and slurring some of the words together.

And it's all kind of disjointed.

The demons celebrate in the cower of night.

Okay.

So Nevia just quiet as a ghost.

She has her short sword in hand and just starts creeping right behind that tiefling.

I do really love how seamlessly Rebecca Yarris embedded a lot of the events of Fourth Wing within the first couple pages.

Rhi recalls Parapet, and we already know that Jack Barlow is absolutely going to be a menace, and Rhi was right to think, God help us if he becomes the most powerful of our year.

Bro, he didn't even have to become the most powerful.

He just had to get any power.

You've been nicer to the general there than I ever have been.

The Parapet, like, does anyone want to do the science?

Welcome back, everybody, to Once Upon a Red Flag, the podcast that asks, if Violet Sorrengail posted on Reddit, would she be the asshole? And if that question interests you and you haven't seen the last episode, that is your sign to go back and check it out, because today we are moving into asking if her mother, General Lilith Sorrengail, is the asshole.

This has weirdly been one of my favorite episodes to plan because we can, like, question her asshole level for, like, a bunch of things, and all those things kind of, like, feed into each other, and it kind of becomes, like, one big giant messy ball of asshole antics.

Let's, uh, let's go back to the very start of this whole thing before all the Violets, Riders, quadrant success that we obviously know about, because Violet gets very little warning about the whole thing.

Granted, her mother didn't tell her on scri- conscription day, so, like, it could have been worse, but Violet only gets six months of training with the deadliest quadrant [laughs] at Basgaith, and she can't even carry her rucksack.

Like, it's a dead giveaway that she is not ready after six months of training, and her mother won't let her back out right before Parapet.

But [laughs] Violet is literally lugging this 30-pound pack up the flight of stairs, six flights, can I just say, to her mother's office, and she's completely out of breath.

Yep.

Right? So she is going through Threshing and the Parapet, et cetera, a year after her brother's loss.

Yep.

Um, and if you will recall, because it is referenced in this chapter, um, Liam wrote letters to his sister, but no familial missives are allowed to go out from cadets to their families during your first year.