Scales

Wow, that is a lot of material to skip, and yet I'm not surprised you did looking at the summary. How is it possible to do so much in so few chapters and yet bored me completely just looking at the short version? Sheesh.

NRSG: Well, at least I did not lose the will to go onward. I think that might very well have happened if I had done those three.

So Axis is a sexist prick yet somehow we're supposed to cheer him on as the romantic lead? Because Bourneheld... exists? And doesn't like his disrespectful halfbrother who constantly causes trouble whenever he appears? And is awkward around Faraday but seems to at least like her? Cause honestly unless I'm given something solid to make me think Faraday wouldn't be safe with him...

Good summation! I am not seeing any of it, either.

In the kind of society Douglas is going out of her way to build, of COURSE noblewomen travel attended by maids and servants, because they need to be.

Exactly! It is such a ridiculous complaint!

At this point I'm not surprised Jayme is having him removed as AxeBoy, because his complete inability to not be an asshole to his own allies makes him a giant liability.

If only he would not be in command after this anymore...

(Seriously I get SO MUCH awkward off Bourneheld interacting with Faraday that I'm actually kind of charmed. It's obvious that he's trying to be loving and supporting and even though he's not always getting the point across he's at least working at it. Whereas Axis only cares inasmuch as he's pissed off and has convenient female targets.)

Indeed. A pity it will be quite some time before we see him again.