“I ask that Your Honor send me . . . four ells of red wool for a cover . . . and good wine, and an arroba of wax for candles, and half a dozen lengths of muslin, and two or three lace tablecloths, and some purple, wine-colored, and blue garnets, and a large broad-brim hat made of blue velvet, or the one Your Honor wears, and four measures of paper.”
-Ana, Queen of the Ndongo, 1626
I really liked how Porcelana’s first hunt flips everything especially the moment she chooses not to kill Cátia and her sister, it adds such a strong emotional weight and makes the whole Lupine reveal hit harder. It made me wonder though, is the Abbess genuinely convinced she’s protecting the town, or is there something more personal driving her obsession with destroying the Lupines?