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SCSF: It also makes them look quite silly for not using their powers when necessary, not to mention that I imagine quite a bit of the point of making them so powerful in the first place is to show it off.

Yeah, half the point of powerful characters is seeing them do badass stuff with their powers, and the other half is that they use them to get shit done.

That is one way of trying to be feminist?

If so then it failed miserably because having a literal inanimate object be female is sexist as hell.

I guess Fernbrake would try to send them away... or it would just be bad luck.

And you just know Jackass and Yeeerrr would either shrug it off or be actively pleased they don't have to put up with him any more.

The fact that WolfStar is somehow not a Big Bad at some point is also quite bad; there truly should have been some confrontation.

He's the only active villain in the whole thing yet gets sidelined and the bastard never gets a comeuppance despite this entire thing being his fault. Gorgrael is just an ineffectual pawn.

I think she said something about Timozel "putting his entire shoulders" into something. Here, I could find something for "bend your back" to mean "make great physical effort", but I did not find "bend your back into [something]".

As someone once put it, misusing idioms like this makes it look like you don't speak English.

Maybe they wanted to train her in... well, I do not know, since she only gets her powers at the Mother. Maybe they wanted to teach her history?

Which isn't training and who cares if Timmy hears? Dude might have been a useful ally if nothing else.

Now that you say it... it is quite out of place tonally. I will add that in, too.

Throwing in unfunny childish shit like this is another Douglass trademark. Later on she has a GOD "clap her hands like a small child" as well.

Whose powers are?

What do you mean?

That is something I am willing to forgive, especially since this is so close to Fernbrake that the Lake might magically support them.

Ah yes, the lazy fantasy author's motto - when in doubt, MAGIC.