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* QuakingWithFear: Caroline's body trembles as she tries to treat Philip while outside their hiding place, the Mogriffs fight the Frostbiter.
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* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Caroline refuses to heed Philip's request to escape without him, leading to both of them being captured.
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Vera, firmly believing there won't be peace until the Mogriffs are extinct, accuses Tinsley of childishness when the latter expresses her wish for finally having a peaceful life.

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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Vera, firmly believing there won't be peace until the Mogriffs are extinct, accuses Tinsley of childishness when the latter expresses her wish for finally having a peaceful life.life to the point of considering to cease the hostilities with Mogriffs.
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* ItCanThink: The Frostbiter further shows its intelligence when it understands Jade's message that she's giving it meat in exchange for returning home, and after pondering on its changes against her and the shadow serpents, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm it decides that while it didn't catch Caroline, it has meat anyway and leaves]].

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* ItCanThink: The Frostbiter further shows its intelligence when it understands Jade's message that she's giving it meat in exchange for returning home, and after pondering on its changes chances against her and the shadow serpents, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm it decides that while it didn't catch Caroline, it has meat anyway and leaves]].
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* AccidentalPervert: After Amelia falls through the ventilation tunnel and lands on top of Alan, she finds herself sitting with her crotch on his face. She then calls him a pervert and kicks him in embarrassment.

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* AccidentalPervert: After Amelia falls through the ventilation tunnel and lands on top of Alan, she finds herself sitting with her crotch on his face. She then calls him a pervert and kicks him in embarrassment.

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* CallBack: The authors bring up Jade's canon [[FriendToAllLivingThings knack for animals]] to explain how she's able to convince the Frostbiter to leave peacefully with an offering of food.



* FriendToAllLivingThings: Jade's canon knack for animals makes her able to convince the Frostbiter to leave peacefully with an offering of food.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: With Philip and Caroline captured, Jade enters the abandoned mines with Tyrian, Rosetta and Quinn to hunt down the rest of Vera's team.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Jade tells Tyrian that she'd rather catch Vera's team alive so that there's a greater chance one of them talks, he believes that she wants to torture one of them to loosen their tongues, eliciting a {{facepalm}} from her.
* DecapitationPresentation: Tyrian offers to hunt down the intruders and present their heads to Jade, but she tells him she'd rather take them alive.



* {{Facepalm}}: Jade has this reaction to Tyrian's ComicallyMissingThePoint moment.



* IWantThemAlive: Before going after the rest of Vera's team in the mines, Jade tells Tyrian she wants them alive if possible so that there's a higher chance of getting answers out of them.



* PragmaticVillainy: Jade invokes this to explain her act of mercy on Philip and Caroline as they could be more useful alive.

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* PragmaticVillainy: Jade invokes this to explain her act of by explaining that she showed mercy on to Philip and Caroline as because they weren't a threat and could be more useful alive.

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* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: When Jade realizes that whoever the Frostbiter chased to the rocky maze is still around, she orders her troops to find them while also calling out loud to give the trespassers a chance to show themselves [[CountingToThree on count of three]]. She ends up finding Caroline and the wounded Philip when the former speaks too loudly in her worry over the latter.

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* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: When Jade realizes that whoever the Frostbiter chased to the rocky maze is still around, she orders her troops to find them while also calling out loud to give the trespassers a chance to show themselves [[CountingToThree on the count of three]]. She ends up finding Caroline and the wounded Philip when the former speaks too loudly in her worry over the latter.



* ItMakesSenseInTheContext: When the injured Philip asks Caroline what's going on outside their hiding place, he wonders if he's delirious from pain when she tells him that "some little blue girl is taming the Frostbiter" and asks her to repeat that.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Jade offers the Frostbiter meat in exchange for returning home, the SuperPersistentPredator that has chased Vera's team outside its territory still wants a taste of Caroline's blood. However, conceding that it's been driven hungry and tired as well as sensing that Jade and the shadow serpents are a credible threat, the Frostbiter gives up on its hunt and leaves with the offered meat.

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* ItMakesSenseInTheContext: ItMakesSenseInContext: When the injured Philip asks Caroline what's going on outside their hiding place, he wonders if he's delirious from pain when she tells him that "some little blue girl is taming the Frostbiter" and asks her to repeat that.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: IWillOnlySlowYouDown: With the Frostbiter having injured Philip whom Caroline has managed to drag to a space between rocks, he tells her to survive without him and even plans on distracting Jade and her troops, but Caroline adamantly refuses to abandon him. They're found in the midst of their argument, though, and taken captive.
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When Jade offers the Frostbiter meat in exchange for returning home, the SuperPersistentPredator that has chased Vera's team outside its territory still wants a taste of Caroline's blood. However, conceding that it's been driven hungry and tired as well as sensing that Jade and the shadow serpents are a credible threat, the Frostbiter gives up on its hunt and leaves with the offered meat.meat.
** When Caroline and the injured Philip are discovered by Jade, they surrender without objection.



* LoudGulp: Caroline gulps as she witnesses Jade soothing the Frostbiter and when she finds herself facing Jade's red eyes.



* PetTheDog: Jade determines that the Frostbiter's aggression is just because it's hungry, so she provides it food and allows it to run off instead of fighting it.

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* PetTheDog: Jade determines that the Frostbiter's aggression is just because it's hungry, so she provides it food and allows it to run off instead of fighting it. She also quickly agrees to give Philip medical treatment when he and Caroline surrender, with Ymir commenting afterwards that act to be merciful.
* PragmaticVillainy: Jade invokes this to explain her act of mercy on Philip and Caroline as they could be more useful alive.


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* TearsOfFear: Caroline sheds these while she and Philip are hiding from the fighting Frostbiter and Mogriffs.


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* VillainousMedicalCare: Jade promises to provide Philip with medical treatment in exchange for his and Caroline's surrender, and when she orders the Shadowkhan to take them to the fortress' medical wing, she sends along the Mogriff the Frostbiter injured.

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* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: When Jade realizes that whoever the Frostbiter chased to the rocky maze is still around, she orders her troops to find them while also calling out loud to give the trespassers a chance to show themselves [[CountingToThree on count of three]]. She ends up finding Caroline and the wounded Philip when the former speaks too loudly in her worry over the latter.



* FreshClue: Jade and her troops realize the Frostbiter was hunting someone who's still around when Tyrian discovers Amelia's fur hat that's still warm from the interior.



* OutOfCharacterAlert: After the Frostbiter leaves, the Mogriffs comment that it's unusual of the territorial predator to be this far off from its usual hunting grounds, leading to Jade and the soldiers figuring out it was chasing someone when Tyrian finds Amelia's discarded hat.



* {{Understatement}}: When the amazed onlookers question how she was able to tame the Frostbiter so easily, Jade replies with amusement that they're exaggerating and that she merely gave a hungry animal an easy meal.

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* {{Understatement}}: When the amazed onlookers question how she was able to tame the Frostbiter so easily, easily (a feat not even Meridian's past queens were capable of), Jade replies with amusement that they're exaggerating and that she merely gave a hungry animal an easy meal.meal, much to Ymir's bewilderment.
* WeaponTwirling: Tyrian twirls his knives in anticipation of finding the intruders.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Jade's canon knack for animals makes her able to convince the Frostbiter to leave peacefully with an offering of food.
* GrowlingGut: The Frostbiter's belly actually growls before it tears into the giant rat carcass Jade offers it.


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* ItCanThink: The Frostbiter further shows its intelligence when it understands Jade's message that she's giving it meat in exchange for returning home, and after pondering on its changes against her and the shadow serpents, [[KnowWhenToFoldEm it decides that while it didn't catch Caroline, it has meat anyway and leaves]].
* ItMakesSenseInTheContext: When the injured Philip asks Caroline what's going on outside their hiding place, he wonders if he's delirious from pain when she tells him that "some little blue girl is taming the Frostbiter" and asks her to repeat that.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When Jade offers the Frostbiter meat in exchange for returning home, the SuperPersistentPredator that has chased Vera's team outside its territory still wants a taste of Caroline's blood. However, conceding that it's been driven hungry and tired as well as sensing that Jade and the shadow serpents are a credible threat, the Frostbiter gives up on its hunt and leaves with the offered meat.


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* PetTheDog: Jade determines that the Frostbiter's aggression is just because it's hungry, so she provides it food and allows it to run off instead of fighting it.


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* {{Understatement}}: When the amazed onlookers question how she was able to tame the Frostbiter so easily, Jade replies with amusement that they're exaggerating and that she merely gave a hungry animal an easy meal.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: Tinsley calls Vera out of her willingness to kill even unborn Mogriff hatchlings while having to gall to call them monsters.



* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids:

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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Vera, firmly believing there won't be peace until the Mogriffs are extinct, accuses Tinsley of childishness when the latter expresses her wish for finally having a peaceful life.




* WhatTheHellHero: Tinsley reproaches Vera for stubbornly believing the Mogriffs to be monsters without considering their side of things.

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\n* WhatTheHellHero: Tinsley reproaches Vera for when the latter stubbornly believing rejects the Mogriffs to be former's realization that the Mogriffs' reputation as monsters without considering may be the result of the conquests on their side of things.ancestral lands.

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* EvilColonialist: When Tinsley learns that Queen Elisabeth drove the Mogriffs out of the mountains before establishing the crystal mines, she thinks it was unfair and starts believing that the Mogriffs may be

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* BerserkerTears: While arguing with Vera, Tinsley sheds these in her tiredness of all the fighting and recent adrenaline rushes.
* EvilColonialist: When Tinsley learns that Queen Elisabeth drove the Mogriffs out of the mountains before establishing the crystal mines, she thinks it was unfair wrong to rob the Mogriffs of their home and starts believing they wouldn't be so hostile if the settlers hadn't started the fight.
* HeelRealization: Upon learning
that the Mogriffs were driven out of their mountain homes out of greed, Tinsley starts considering the notion of them being just bloodthirsty monsters may be
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* OwMyBodyPart: Amelia complains about her head this way after falling down the ventilation tunnel.

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* OwMyBodyPart: Amelia complains about her head this way after falling down the ventilation tunnel.tunnel.
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* SinsOfOurFathers: Tinsley's unwillingness to harm Mogriff offspring stems from her belief [[DefiedTrope a child doesn't deserve to die for something their parents did]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Tinsley reproaches Vera for stubbornly believing the Mogriffs to be monsters without considering their side of things.
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* EvilColonialist: When Tinsley learns that Queen Elisabeth drove the Mogriffs out of the mountains before establishing the crystal mines, she thinks it was unfair and starts believing that the Mogriffs may be


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* MorallyBankruptBanker: Discussed. It's revealed that when Meridian's largest deposit of light crystals was discovered in the mountain housing the Stone Nest, Amelia's family used the merchant guilt's resources and connections to build up the now {{abandoned mine}} to compete with the wealth of the mining city of Peniculus. Alan accuses Amelia's family of using the hardworking miners to make profit for themselves, which she doesn't take kindly.
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With Caroline and Philip separated from the others by the Frostbiter, they run into more trouble with Jade's arrival, while the rest of Vera's team find themselves in the abandoned crystal mines of the Mogriffs' mountain.
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* AccidentalPervert: After Amelia falls through the ventilation tunnel and lands on top of Alan, she finds herself sitting with her crotch on his face. She then calls him a pervert and kicks him in embarrassment.
* LivingCrashpad: Alan ends up serving as this for Tinsley and Amelia when they fall into the mines in the chapter's beginning.
* OwMyBodyPart: Amelia complains about her head this way after falling down the ventilation tunnel.

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