Poor Julian. I never liked that quest either, for the same reason as Julian.
The fetid aroma smacked me in the face with the force of a zombie slapWho cut the cheese!
“I’m not a hero,”You took the words right out of Teresa's mouth!
The ending with Kud-Ei was imho the best part of the segment. Again, you continue to portray her very strongly. I really like your and Acadian's Kud-Eis. I get the feeling that of all the MG chapters, Bravil is the one that Julian feels most at home, in spite of it being in the same city where she completely fell off track.
And of course, even though the discussion contained nothing new to us readers, it summed up everything we have seen about Julian. What
is new is that it was all coming out of Julian's mouth this time. That self-awareness shows her growth as a person, as she faces whom she has become.