A gently paced mostly-slice-of-life story about (essentially) an anxious court witch who has to figure out the job as she goes, with lots of pleasantly dense worldbuilding by implication and some good bee magic. I fell into it easily, as is often the case with McKinley. Let down a bit by its somewhat perfunctory ending.
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Precision-seeking, but often ridiculous. The same figure as indeed_distract@wandering.shop.
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