When I first conceived this book, I didn’t think Aimee would turn out so cool, but I really like her.
Feel free to share thoughts, musings, theories, and whatever else is going on in your head related to this chapter. (Though as this thread goes into general discussion, if you have advance access to early chapters, please remember to avoid spoilers.)
Well, Siobhan has clearly never lacked ambition 
And Lacer did end up teaching those posh idiots in the end !
Omens and portents!
I’ll have to reread this chapter as I fell asleep several times reading through it (I should really learn to get a full night’s sleep and read in the morning) but initial thoughts:
Nightmares and mystery sand - interesting.
Aimee is a sweetheart and I love her.
It’s so fun seeing Siobhan laying the foundation for the sorceress she’s going to be in the future - all her desires and frustrations.
I love that she’s such a kid, for all that she thinks herself grown up.
This egg feels like a hint that this isn’t her actual memory, but a manipulated recreation. But, maybe not. Maybe the egg was the start of it all:
“Those glowing amber eyes were familiar, and for a moment, a flash of blood and brain matter pooling out in front of the fire came to mind.
That was followed by a blink-fast vision of an egg with a yolk made of blood.”
Excerpt From A Foreboding of Woe (A Practical Guide to Sorcery Book 4)
It would depend I think on if her passenger was a aberrant before it became a spirit and how hard the line is for such. I still have a niggling thought that the brillig may have essentially been natural aberrants.
Anyway its nice and possibly tragic that Siobahn had at least some of a support network with Aimee
She never lacked for ambition and it was actively encouraged by her Grandfather which makes me like him more now. Will be interesting to see how much that changes over this book!
It’s interesting, because I just associated that with general omens of bad things happening - milk turning sour, animals becoming lame or being born with deformities, egg yolks turning to blood - a lot of these are associated with fey presence or demonic/evil presences. Basically it’s a sign that bad things are nigh.
I didn’t take it as a sign of tampered memories but more an ominous sign of what’s already lurking.
‘If there were more like him, this country might not be doomed’
What an odd thing to say…
Love the baby Siobhan insights. Her nerdy little obsessions, her strong respect/fondness for her grandfather, family bonding via gruesome death stories, ‘color-coded by plausibility level’ (lmao).