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Physical controls were a primary reason I went with a 2023 Mazda 3. I didn’t want a touch screen as the primary input device. The rotary dials for menus and volume have been great. I find the screen is just in a better position too; it doesn’t need to be within reach so it just blends into the dash better and is at an easier angle to see.

Before I updated my car I used the headphone jack regularly for playing music there. Otherwise it was relegated to a couple situations a year like air travel.

Now that I’ve got a newer vehicle I just have all my music on USB there.

If it’s wind based then maybe that doesn’t count as direct elemental impact? It’s not directly acting on the knife?

We don’t know where the sovereign knight commander is, so there may some threat there - and maybe that’s in the sovereignty or academy?

Time for dinner and gathering permission slips from the knights. Love seeing Rozemyne’s entourage get their assignments and some strong words of support from everyone.

Ah right, that was mentioned. Maybe this will give her a chance to leave the estate and join the discussion despite the infant?

Feels like the volume should end with meeting Duneklfelger at the country gate. It’d make a good epilogue to have it be from someone else’s perspective, like Hannelore maybe.

Going to be quite the change of pace if the short stories circle back to earlier parts of the volume. There’s tons of space available for content while Rozemyne was absent, but it just feels like it would disrupt the tone.

I was thinking we were going to delay the majority of the conflict until next volume, and starting off this set of chapters with the baptism really made me think that was going to be the case.

Of course I forgot this is bookworm, so of course we can’t just execute an invasion - we need meetings and a phone call and a meeting to figure out a noble justification! There’s plenty of ways to fill up the volume that don’t involve actual conflict.

Seems like there’s not much room left in this book for anything major, so maybe just a preliminary scare - like a scout for Georgine getting caught at a gate? Or maybe we get into things and it leaves off on a cliffhanger? Maybe there will be additional side stories this volume since there’s plenty of space to cover with the time skip.

I have to imagine we’re going to focus on defending the temple the rest of this volume, but maybe there’ll be an opportunity to have her meeting with the merchants before everything goes crazy.