#ellery detante

[goodgrammaritan]

Loving Curses by Lish McBride. There have been many great lines, but I'll just leave this one:

"Quite right," Ellery said. "In my country, it's considered acceptable to launch people who show up unannounced from a trebuchet. We all keep them by our doors as a reminder."

(also Ellery is non-binary and awesome)