Children with coal
stains on their faces, mothers with white streaks in their hair, fathers with
a single teardrop in their eyes would all crowd around me and reach their
quivering hand just for a touch of their saviour… I’m getting way too into this fantasy for
someone who’s roasting raw dove over a barrel fire I have to feed with mouldy wood.

Vale spending the whole novel hating the assassin nickname people gave her then finally getting the opportunity to introduce herself as something badass towards the end to someone who doesn’t know her only to pick a name that’s even lamer than Bloodslinger pretty much describes her character.