Author’s Note
I’m a medievalist by training, so I always love getting back to fantasy that plays with that era! This one’s short and sweet, but it makes me smile—I love the coziness of Averet’s shop, and the love both he and Morgen have for other people and their home and little clockwork kittens. They’re two good people who deserve each other, really—plus some very fun s****l escapades with enchanted rope…
A few influences for this one include Diane Duane’s Tale of the Five series, plus some Robin McKinley and Patricia C. Wrede, in that everyday comfortable magical kingdom sort of way. And some Diana Wynne Jones, for Averet’s house, and also the Netflix series version of The Witcher, for questions of magical and temporality and magical academies and advisors—though this realm is much mo
