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** In "Will of the Empress", Tris points out discrepancies in some accounting books. Sandry sarcastically mentions the possibility that her very trustworthy cousin is stealing from her and Tris replies with, "And I'm the Queen of the Battle Islands."
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In the first book, when Sandry invites Daja to sit at her table, with several other noble girls, she introduces her as "Lady Daja". One of the other girls says "If that's a lady, I'm a cat." Sandry, outraged, pours milk onto the girl's plate while pointing out that she is much higher-ranking than she is, ending with "Best start lapping, kitty."
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In the first book, when Sandry invites Daja to sit at her table, with several other noble girls, she introduces her as "Lady Daja". One of the other girls says "If that's a lady, I'm a cat." Sandry, outraged, pours milk onto the girl's plate while pointing out that she is much higher-ranking than she is, higher-ranking, ending with "Best "If I tell you my friend is a lady, then you had best start lapping, kitty."
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* SlidingScaleOfDivineIntervention: * In this series, there are various gods and religions, with the one that the main characters either follow or interact with being the Living Circle religion. However, it is not made clear if the gods don't exist, or if they do but don't do anything.
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* SlidingScaleOfDivineIntervention: * In this series, there are various gods and religions, with the one that the main characters either follow or interact with being the Living Circle religion. However, it is not made clear if the gods don't exist, or if they do but don't do anything.
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* SlidingScaleOfDivineIntervention: * In this series, there are various gods and religions, with the one that the main characters either follow or interact with being the Living Circle religion. However, it is not made clear if the gods don't exist, or if they do but don't do anything.
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* ClassicalElementsEnsemble: The books have been collected into sets of two opposing elements, where Sandry and Tris's books is "Water and Fire", while Daja and Briar's is "Air and Earth", using Tris and Daja's covers as the covers of the sets, respectively.
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* AllegianceAffirmation: After Daja is declared ''trangshi'', she ends up at a temple where she begins [[TrainingTheGiftOfMagic studying smithing magic]], which she wouldn't be allowed to do in her culture, and becomes part of a very close group of friends. When she gets a chance to rejoin her people, [[IChooseToStay she declines, saying she's changed too much to go back.]]
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* AllegianceAffirmation: After Daja is declared ''trangshi'', she ends up at a temple where she begins [[TrainingTheGiftOfMagic studying smithing magic]], which she wouldn't be allowed to do in her culture, and becomes part of a very close group of friends. When she gets a chance to rejoin her people, [[IChooseToStay she declines, saying she's changed too much to go back.]]back]], but is glad to no longer be ''trangshi'' and able to speak to her old people again.
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* AnAesop: In the middle of ''Briar's Book'' Tris, stressed and upset by Briar and Rosethorn being quarantined in the heart of the epidemic, lashes out and claims that they shouldn't have been on a charity mission to the slums in the first place and that "everyone knows the poor breed disease!" She knows immediately that she's said something she shouldn't have. Lark, who had lived in the slums herself, very gently asks Tris an ArmorPiercingQuestion - if the poor could afford to live somewhere clean and have medical care, they wouldn't be poor, would they? Tris takes this to heart by later books.
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* MetaPower: Sandry turns out to have an apparently-unique ability to directly manipulate magic itself, which is how she spun the four children's magics together in the thread circle.
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* ''Sandry's Book'', known elsewhere as ''The Magic in the Weaving'', where the four misfits are brought together and unite against bullies, tyrannical gardeners, and their own tempers. When they're trapped in an earthquake, Sandry weaves their magic together, increasing their power exponentially, though little do they know just how much…
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* ''Sandry's Book'', known elsewhere as ''The Magic in the Weaving'', where the four misfits are brought together and unite against bullies, tyrannical gardeners, and their own tempers. When they're trapped in an earthquake, Sandry weaves their magic together, increasing their power exponentially, though little do they know just how much…much...
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* BilingualBackfire: When the four meet at Discipline Cottage for the first time, Briar rudely asks Daja why Traders wear red for mourning. She explains, and substitutes the rude term for a non-Trader (kaq) with something else. Then Daja looks over at Sandry, who also speaks the Trader language, and says in it, "And he is a ''kaq''." Briar immediately says in Trader-talk, "I haven't spent my life with my fingers in my ears. And I'm not stupid."
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* BilingualBackfire: When the four meet at Discipline Cottage for the first time, Briar rudely asks Daja why Traders wear red for mourning. She explains, and substitutes the rude term for a non-Trader (kaq) (''kaq'') with something else. Then Daja looks over at Sandry, who also speaks the Trader language, and says in it, "And he is a ''kaq''." Briar immediately says in Trader-talk, "I haven't spent my life with my fingers in my ears. And I'm not stupid."
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Any child with magic born into a Trader family is expected to undergo this type of {{training|FromHell}} which results in a mage with a very limited scope of abilities but near perfect mastery of them. [[note]] Trader mages are said to be the only ones capable of manipulating and controlling the raw forces of nature without issue. [[/note]] Niko himself describes Trader mage training as "learning to be a puff of wind — and nothing else — for 10 years".
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Any child with magic born into a Trader family is expected to undergo this type of {{training|FromHell}} which results in a mage with a very limited scope of abilities but near perfect mastery of them. [[note]] Trader [[note]]Trader mages are said to be the only ones capable of manipulating and controlling the raw forces of nature without issue. issue.[[/note]] Niko himself describes Trader mage training as "learning to be a puff of wind — and nothing else — for 10 years".
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Dedicate Crane. When he first appears in ''Sandry's Book'', he looks like a frosty, arrogant, semi-competent, complete snob and a villain who is going to make the protagonists' lives a living hell. Watch him at work with people he trusts and respects in ''Briar's Book'', and with [[spoiler:Rosethorn when she starts to get sick]], and you realize there's a lot more than that going on with him. He and Rosethorn just can't ever quite manage to have a ''civil'' discussion about their different methods, that's all…
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Dedicate Crane. When he first appears in ''Sandry's Book'', he looks like a frosty, arrogant, semi-competent, complete snob and a villain who is going to make the protagonists' lives a living hell. Watch him at work with people he trusts and respects in ''Briar's Book'', and with [[spoiler:Rosethorn when she starts to get sick]], and you realize there's a lot more than that going on with him. He and Rosethorn just can't ever quite manage to have a ''civil'' discussion about their different methods, that's all…all...
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* EvilIsNotAToy: More importantly, ''natural phenomena'' are not a toy. Tris blacks out trying to stop the tide from coming in during the first book, the giant earthquake in the same book is caused by a group of mages trying to contain an earthquake, Yarrun dies trying to stop a firestorm in the third book, and by ''Literature/TheCircleOpens'' Tris comments that even if she ''could'' change the local weather on a greater scale than trapping breezes and the odd lightning strike, [[ButterflyOfDoom it would drastically impact weather patterns across the world]]. Only heavily-specialized Trader mages can manipulate the weather, because only they have the lifetime of training necessary to do so and compensate for the consequences.
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* EvilIsNotAToy: More importantly, ''natural phenomena'' are is not a toy. Tris blacks out trying to stop the tide from coming in during the first book, the giant earthquake in the same book is caused by a group of mages trying to contain an earthquake, Yarrun dies trying to stop a firestorm in the third book, and by ''Literature/TheCircleOpens'' Tris comments that even if she ''could'' change the local weather on a greater scale than trapping breezes and the odd lightning strike, [[ButterflyOfDoom it would drastically impact weather patterns across the world]]. Only heavily-specialized Trader mages can manipulate the weather, because only they have the lifetime of training necessary to do so and compensate for the consequences.
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** In ''Daja's Book'', Briar makes a passing reference to having had nightmares about something horrible happening to Rosethorn. [[spoiler:In the next book she dies of pneumonia, but Briar is able to pull her back from it.]]
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* GoodDocBadDoc: The first three books, a rivalry is set up between Rosethorn, one of the main characters' teacher/foster mother, who's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who due to her GreenThumb genuinely cares for the things she plants. Dedicate Crane, however, is described as petty, mean and much more interested in personal gain. When a plague sweeps the city, forcing them to work together as researchers, these roles just get enforced, with Crane seeming overly cruel to his underlings. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted, when its proven that Crane's strictness was there for ''very'' [[JerkassHasAPoint good reasons]], and he genuinely works hard to help cure the disease. Given how Osprey talks about him, he's probably less hostile than Rosethorn normally.]]
* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler:Yarrun dies when he tries to stop a forest fire that's too powerful for him.]] He's not a hero, but otherwise fits the trope.
* HeroicRROD: [[spoiler:Yarrun dies when he tries to stop a forest fire that's too powerful for him.]] He's not a hero, but otherwise fits the trope.
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* GoodDocBadDoc: The In the first three books, a rivalry is set up between Rosethorn, one of the main characters' teacher/foster mother, who's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who due to her GreenThumb genuinely cares for the things she plants. Dedicate Crane, however, is described as petty, mean and much more interested in personal gain. When a plague sweeps the city, forcing them to work together as researchers, these roles just get enforced, with Crane seeming overly cruel to his underlings. [[spoiler:Eventually subverted, when its it's proven that Crane's strictness was there for ''very'' [[JerkassHasAPoint good reasons]], and he genuinely works hard to help cure the disease. Given how Osprey talks about him, he's probably less hostile than Rosethorn normally.]]
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* IChooseToStay: In ''Briar's Book'', [[spoiler:after Briar follows his dying teacher to the afterlife, he threatens to cut his connection to the mortal world and stay with her unless she returns home with him. She relents.]]
** [[spoiler: A group of Traders who winds up in Daja's debt offer to pay her back with a place among them. Daja doesn't want to give up her 'circle' with Sandry, Tris, and Briar and her study of smithing magic, so she declines to join them.]]
** [[spoiler: A group of Traders who winds up in Daja's debt offer to pay her back with a place among them. Daja doesn't want to give up her 'circle' with Sandry, Tris, and Briar and her study of smithing magic, so she declines to join them.]]
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Dedicate Crane is absolutely ''brutal'' to his staff in ''Briar's Book'', where he is leading the effort to find a cure for the rapidly spreading, magically-caused plague devastating Summersea. He will fire them for the slightest mistake and insists that absolutely ''everything'' be done perfectly -- no exceptions, no second chances. ''And he is [[ProperlyParanoid absolutely correct]]''.
* KingOfThieves: The pirate "Queen" Pauha, who leads a massive fleet with her brother, the powerful mage Enahar.
* KingOfThieves: The pirate "Queen" Pauha, who leads a massive fleet with her brother, the powerful mage Enahar.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Dedicate Crane is absolutely ''brutal'' to his staff in ''Briar's Book'', where he is leading the effort to find a cure for the rapidly spreading, magically-caused plague devastating Summersea. He will fire them for the slightest mistake and insists that absolutely ''everything'' be done perfectly -- no exceptions, no second chances. ''And he is [[ProperlyParanoid absolutely correct]]''.
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* KingOfThieves: The pirate "Queen" Pauha, who leads a massive fleet with her brother, the powerful mageEnahar.Enahar, in ''Tris's Book''.
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* TooDumbToLive: Yarrun is proven to be this. Rosethorn warns him that by stopping so many little fires, the brush on the ground has gathered and will trigger a huge blaze. He dismisses her because she's teaching a bunch of mages that have abilities that no one else can replicate. Then she's proven right, and he tries to stop the giant firestorm by sheer effort; it ends up killing him.
* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Sandry's ability to "spin magic", which allowed her to combine the four's magic. It was that blending that turned them from four powerful but not abnormal mages to the unprecedented prodigies they become for the rest of the series. Not to mention their ability to mindspeak to each other, share power, and do several other interesting tricks.
* UniqueProtagonistAsset: Sandry's ability to "spin magic", which allowed her to combine the four's magic. It was that blending that turned them from four powerful but not abnormal mages to the unprecedented prodigies they become for the rest of the series. Not to mention their ability to mindspeak to each other, share power, and do several other interesting tricks.
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* TooDumbToLive: Yarrun is proven to be this.this in ''Daja's Book''. Rosethorn warns him that by stopping so many little fires, the brush on the ground has gathered and will trigger a huge blaze. He dismisses her because she's teaching a bunch of mages that have abilities that no one else can replicate. Then she's proven right, and he tries to stop the giant firestorm by sheer effort; it ends up killing him.
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In the first book, when Sandry invites Daja to sit at her table, with several other noble girls, she introduces her as "Lady Daja". One of the other girls says "If that's a lady, I'm a cat." Sandry, outraged, pours milk onto the girl's plate while pointing out that she is much higher-ranking than her, ending with "Best start lapping, kitty."
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In the first book, when Sandry invites Daja to sit at her table, with several other noble girls, she introduces her as "Lady Daja". One of the other girls says "If that's a lady, I'm a cat." Sandry, outraged, pours milk onto the girl's plate while pointing out that she is much higher-ranking than her, she is, ending with "Best start lapping, kitty."
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Now has its own [[Characters/{{Circleverse}} character page]]. Not to be confused with the 6-book series ''The Circle of Magic'' written by James D. [=MacDonald=] and Debra Doyle.
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Now has its own [[Characters/{{Circleverse}} character page]]. Not to be confused with the 6-book series ''The Circle of Magic'' ''Literature/TheCircleOfMagic'' written by James D. [=MacDonald=] and Debra Doyle.
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* AllegianceAffirmation: After Daja is declared ''trangshi'', she ends up at a temple where she begins [[TrainingTheGiftOfMagic studying smithing magic]], which she wouldn't be allowed to do in her culture, and becomes part of a very close group of friends. When she gets a chance to rejoin her people, [[IChooseToStay she declines, saying she's changed too much to go back.]]
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** Two examples in the first book. Tris knocks herself unconscious trying to control the tides, and the earthquake at the climax is ''magnified'' with magic backwash after a group of mages tried to absorb its power and were killed by it.
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* ImmuneToFire: Fire mages can walk through flames unscathed.
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* ImmuneToFire: Fire mages can walk through flames unscathed. Downplayed with Daja and her mentor Frostpine; they're both highly resistant to fire, but an inferno will overwhelm them and they're still susceptible to smoke inhalation.
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* WidowsWeeds: Traders (Family-based merchant caravans that travel on land or sea) wear red when loved ones die. Daja eventually adopts a red armband in memory of her family, instead of wearing the all-red clothes all the time. She inspires Sandry to do the same with her black clothes.
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* WidowsWeeds: Traders (Family-based (family-based merchant caravans that travel on land or sea) wear red when loved ones die. Daja eventually adopts a red armband in memory of her family, instead of wearing the all-red clothes all the time. She inspires Sandry to do the same with her black clothes.
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* RenownedSelectiveMentor: Niko, the incredibly famous vision mage, personally trains Tris the weather mage. The children later learn that Rosethorn, Lark, and Frostpine are equally renowned mages. {{Justified}} due to the law about discovering mages — they have to find a teacher in that field of magic, and if one can't be found, they must teach the student themselves (which is the case with Tris; while other weather mages exist who listen to winds, ones whose powers extend to all aspects of weather are ''much'' rarer).
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* RenownedSelectiveMentor: Niko, the incredibly famous vision mage, personally trains Tris the weather mage. The children later learn that Rosethorn, Lark, Lark and Frostpine are equally renowned mages. {{Justified}} due to the law about discovering mages — they have to find a teacher in that field of magic, and if one can't be found, they must teach the student themselves (which is the case with Tris; while other weather mages exist who listen to winds, ones whose powers extend to all aspects of weather are ''much'' rarer).
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It's about four [[KidHero children]] who are all [[AllOftheOtherReindeer outcasts]] with different elemental powers as they train at a magical academy and learn about their abilities, while various disasters [[TrueCompanions lead them to consider each other as family]].
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It's about four [[KidHero children]] who are all [[AllOftheOtherReindeer outcasts]] with different elemental powers as they train at a magical academy Winding Circle Temple and learn about their abilities, while various disasters [[TrueCompanions lead them to consider each other as family]].
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* RealityEnsues: In ''Briar's Book'', Tris and Niko have to investigate the city's AbsurdlySpaciousSewer. Standard fantasy fare... except that they go in wearing protective gear and ''both'' of them freak out at having to wade through knee-deep human waste with unseen lumps occasionally colliding with their boots. Niko, being tall, has to stoop over.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Dedicate Crane is absolutely ''brutal'' to his staff in ''Briar's Book'', where he is leading the effort to find a cure for the rapidly spreading, magically-caused plague devastating Summersea. He will fire them for the slightest mistake and insists that absolutely ''everything'' be done perfectly -- no exceptions, no second chances. ''And he is [[ProperlyParanoid absolutely correct]]''.
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* ImmuneToFire: Fire mages can walk through flames unscathed.
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* TooDumbToLive: Yarrun is proven to be this. Rosethorn warns him that by stopping so many little fires, the brush on the ground has gathered and will trigger a huge blaze. He dismisses her because she's teaching a bunch of mages that have abilities that no one else can replicate. Then she's proven right, and he tries to stop the giant firestorm by sheer effort; it ends up killing him.
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Removing an example from Artistic License Biology for not being what happens in the book. Briar never considers smallpox "nonlethal" — earlier in the book, he calls it an old enemy, along with cholera & other deadly diseases that he's seen killl entire neighborhoods in his old haunts. The scene referred to by the original poster is Briar thinking that some folks have survived smallpox & hoping that his friend Flick likewise survives this new blue pox (and that it turns out to be nothing but a "weak measle"). Smallpox is deadly, but not 100% lethal, even in Real Life — there were many survivors even before the vaccine was invented, just as folks survived measles & plague & other deadly diseases. Briar's trying to convince himself that Flick will survive, not dismissing smallpox's lethality (and bluntly, in the very first book of the series, Sandry is trapped in a city with a deadly smallpox epidemic; Pierce makes it clear how deadly it is). Also, the stated descriptions of the bluepox are not "mild": dehydration, bleeding skin & sores, and convulsions that lead to strangulation & braindeath. Maybe not as visually horrifying as smallpox scars, but still not "mild" by any measure.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In ''Briar's Book'' when the blue pox appears Briar tries to convince himself it's a non-lethal disease. He mentions ''smallpox'' in this category - the disease that very gruesomely kills one in three in populations that have experienced it before, nine out of ten in naive ones, all while leaving victims aware and in what one account has described as "pain almost beyond the capacity of human nature to endure". In comparison the blue pox is nearly painless and not even stomach-turning.
** All of the testing in ''Briar's Book'' is very ''in vitro'', outside of their normal biological context. Elisia Pearldrop dripped substances on rashers of bacon to see if they made the fat dissolve. A heavy focus is put on finding which substances will destroy blue pox that has been extracted and isolated. But ''in vitro'' experiments don't do all that well at predicting what happens to a whole creature. Disease-causing agents isolated in a lab are very easy to destroy but it's much more difficult to get such agents into the body where they can do so without also harming the body.
** All of the testing in ''Briar's Book'' is very ''in vitro'', outside of their normal biological context. Elisia Pearldrop dripped substances on rashers of bacon to see if they made the fat dissolve. A heavy focus is put on finding which substances will destroy blue pox that has been extracted and isolated. But ''in vitro'' experiments don't do all that well at predicting what happens to a whole creature. Disease-causing agents isolated in a lab are very easy to destroy but it's much more difficult to get such agents into the body where they can do so without also harming the body.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: In ''Briar's Book'' when the blue pox appears Briar tries to convince himself it's a non-lethal disease. He mentions ''smallpox'' in this category - the disease that very gruesomely kills one in three in populations that have experienced it before, nine out of ten in naive ones, all while leaving victims aware and in what one account has described as "pain almost beyond the capacity of human nature to endure". In comparison the blue pox is nearly painless and not even stomach-turning.
**All of the testing in ''Briar's Book'' is very ''in vitro'', outside of their normal biological context. Elisia Pearldrop dripped substances on rashers of bacon to see if they made the fat dissolve. A heavy focus is put on finding which substances will destroy blue pox that has been extracted and isolated. But ''in vitro'' experiments don't do all that well at predicting what happens to a whole creature. Disease-causing agents isolated in a lab are very easy to destroy but it's much more difficult to get such agents into the body where they can do so without also harming the body.
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