"Once Upon a Time” Lasts Forever

I'm a little past halfway, and golly, it's so great to be back with witch king Kaiisteron and his found family of extremely powerful misfits as they try to figure out whether Something Bad is happening at the edges of the map.

The family vibe is ramping up, in fact. At one point their little street urchin, Sanja, wants reassurance that if she goes off to play with some children in the household of an ally that they are visiting, the grownup members of the group won't leave her there (where she'd be safe) while she's distracted. Kai tells her with affable sarcasm that it would be very bad manners to abandon his children to their hosts.