Adelaide Jensen

And I was like, oh, you're bringing like science into this magic.

And it's something really intriguing about that, that I haven't really read something quite like that before, which I enjoyed.

It was almost like a cold open to a whole new series.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We use it for this podcast.

Yes, in my vocab now.

And so I think that added a really great element to the story as well because I was a bit like, oh, where's this going?

Like I can't immediately see what's going to happen here.

And obviously you've got two different points of view.

They're on these two different journeys kind of seemingly on a similar trajectory but potentially going different places and the whole time you're like, where's this going?

And it also introduces Caspia and Andreas who is sort of immediately established as her love story.

Did you like having another romance?

Yes.

Yeah, because it's like, yes, I would just love a linguistics montage.

I'm happy for you just to have worked that out.

But I even liked that she linked the world building by saying like these languages had similar roots and it was like they could almost understand each other from sort of like an old English kind of way.

And I...

I'm always just impressed when authors have whole other languages in their books.

Well, let's talk a bit about our separated lovers, Odessa and Ransom.