The Rogue Queen's Rise
Praise sits on her wrong, like a coat that doesn't fit — too much of it and she shrinks instead of standing taller.
Behind Piper, propped against a stack of tires, is the thing Renata calls a "welcome kit" — a scuffed pair of steel-toed boots two sizes too big, a flashlight with dead batteries, a folding knife nobody's taught her to use yet. Renata hands every rogue who walks through that bay door the same three objects on their first night, no explanation offered beyond "you'll need them eventually." I got mine two weeks before Piper did. Mine still sits on the shelf above my cot, untouched, because so far the only thing I've needed here is a reason to stop flinching, and nobody sells that