Bad Machinery by John Allison for January 20, 2025

She’s not wrong, he’d be in the fetal position almost instantly.

So the group has adjourned back to Hugo’s Fine Canton-Style Eatin’s. I’m not sure what makes it “Canton-Style”, other than Hugo has declared it so, and there is nothing his many enemies can do about it.

I’m pretty sure any of the mystery kids could take Hugh in a street fight. Shauna’s definitely on point with 1 and 2, though.

Do not absentmindedly cut ham with the cursed knife

Don’t mess with a girl who grew up in the estates!

All perfectly valid points—Shauna would mop the floor with Hugh in a fight. :P

Swim practice makes her firmidable.

I think Shauna could have Hugh, plus the whole chamber of commerce in a street fight.

So Britain has Yankee Candles.

More recently than the time of this story, Yankee Candle seems to have some business woes:

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Shauna is a girl after my own heart. Reminds me a lot of me at that age.

Shauna knows her “power” very well.