#incidentally this adds fuel to my theory that el is wrong to think it’s ok for others to compromise a little with evil - just not her

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WAIT. Waitwaitwaitwaitwait Scholomance series realization!!

Using malia creates mals. A little bit of malia creates little mals, a lot of malia creates big mals. Right?

The very littlest mals are the agglos, and they’re so small and insignificant as to be considered harmless. Nobody really minds about them. At worst they’re minor pests.

BUT then it turns out that the agglos were what broke the cleansing machinery in the graduation hall! The very tiniest and most seemingly harmless acts of malia - that is of exploitation, of using other living beings - were what paved the way for the bigger ones to cause all that devastation! Literally eating away at the defenses set up against them!

I am so obsessed with these books y’all. Naomi Novik is on a level I cannot even comprehend.