The Book of Three

And that is why we have an obesity problem.

I think he’s a vegetarian rather than vegan - he speaks nonchalantly of eating eggs, and I want to say the text mentions milk and honey. One wonders what exactly he feeds his wolves.

Archaeologists call that "the hunt for protein". Right now, in Venezuela, stealing from people's refrigerators and looting food are some of the only forms of crime currently increasing, with no cash worth much and so little else left to seal that isn't highly visible. Paleo-archaeologists can track when cattle or hogs arrived in Europe by the sudden halving of fishing villages and an inland explosion of human settlements.
Of course, nowadays protein and sugar are cheap in functioning market economies, and increasingly in the developing world too, so, a y'all say, obesity and such.
I love Gurgi's new look.

He does look naked without his debris doesn’t he?

And happy Taran is such a novelty. I think this is only like the third time I’ve drawn him smiling.

Once my wife reads these books, I'll start calling her "Taran". There's always a relatively quiet, totally reliable worrier … I'm a bit more Flam/Eilonwy.

You remember correctly - my line here truncates two into one. I did struggle over whether to make the change, but it just seemed so verbose.

I’ll mske sure her next simile survives intact!

I always enjoyed that habit of hers, too! In fact, a lot of the "verbal tics/habits" in the series are quite enjoyable and endearing. Immediately, I think of good old Doli. . . whom we haven't met, yet. Won't be spoilery on this one.

It’s so good to draw them all happy.

In my head they’ve all had at least a basic washing and brushing, with whatever passes for human hygiene at Medwyn’s. Plus they’re well-fed for the first time in days. There’s no helping Fflewddur’s unshaven scruff, though.

I don't think it's acid. She is sharp-tongued by nature, and not every snarky remark is born out of bitterness; sometimes it's just her manner of expression. Eilonwy is many things, but she's never deliberately cruel. If she does say anything especially cutting, it's because she's either hurt, or clueless about her own lack of tact.

Ah. And I just wanted to tie that in to my comment at p. 212. ?

To be honest, she is hurt most of the time one way or another, often because she would deliberately interpret what she hears in such a way that she may feel rejected again.