A mutually beneficial agreement based on one party’s willingness to torture themselves and the other side’s complete distaste for the slightest physical discomfort.Īs Chaisee grew older, she began to manage the village’s books. And faraway nobles washed their faces with the cured exteriors of cucumber-sponges, the softest touch known in the Four Nations. She and her fellow villagers willingly took on the often-fatal endeavor again and again so they might eat for another season. Dive after dive, they forced their way farther into the depths and scraped their hands raw against the slimy spikes of the reef to come up with little puffballs of a creature that, once carefully killed and dried, would fetch a generous string of coins on the open market. Without the aid of waterbending, they trained their bodies to accept the pressure, their minds to embrace the signals that they were dying. No one in the Mo Ce considered such a feat viable or worth the risk.īut Chaisee’s people ignored the prevailing wisdom. To wit-the villagers of her little unnamed island dove for prized cucumber-sponges far below the glistening surface of the waters, where sunlight faded and ears threatened to burst. In it, the main villain Chaisee gets some backstory…Ĭhaisee understood from an early age that to be successful, you needed to be willing to go further than others thought possible. Yee’s Yangchen Book 2 Chapter 1 for free ahead of the novel’s release on July 18th!

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