Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at an… - Naomi Novik

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Of course I was afraid. But I had learned to fear other things more: being despised, whittled down one small piece of myself at a time, smirked at and taken advantage of. I put my chin up and said, as cold as I could be in answer, “And what will you give me in return?

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About Naomi Novik

Naomi Novik is an American writer of speculative fiction, including the Temeraire series (2006–2016), an alternate history of the Napoleonic Wars involving dragons. She was a co-founder in 2007 of Archive of Our Own (AO3) an online archive of fan fiction.

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