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ngl this one's a bit rushed. I'm going to be out of town this Wednesday, so I wanted to have the next translation up before I left. WE'LL FIX IT IN POST.

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( Scrapped Princess | Canzonetta of the Unforgiven | The Transgressor | Part 3/4 )

A note about Galil's and Zephy's speech patterns: they both use archaic pronouns, conjugations, phrasings, etc., but not exclusively. So I don't use strict verb agreement with the archaic pronouns in English (which was apparently accepted in the familiar form, at least).

I dunno. I'm not a linguist, and even if I were, I don't think I'd want to load the text with -eths and -ests anyway, just for the sake of flow. So I'm going by ear and sprinkling just enough archaisms to mimic the flavor. Obviously I could change my mind about this in a month or two, aha.

ON AN ENTIRELY UNRELATED NOTE: I just now realized that Chris uses a trick weapon, which is kind of funny seeing as he doesn't even have his halberd in this section.

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( Scrapped Princess | Canzonetta of the Unforgiven | The Weak | Part 3/3 )

Turns out I remember just a tiny bit of Japanese. Aha . . .

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( Scrapped Princess | Canzonetta of the Unforgiven | An Unwavering Bond | Part 3/3 )

Galil's lines took as long to translate as the rest of the section put together.

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( Scrapped Princess | Canzonetta of the Unforgiven | An Unwavering Bond | Part 1/3 )

Man, if I had any kind of consistency, I could be halfway through Book 7 by now.

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( Scrapped Princess | Canzonetta of the Unforgiven | The SpecOps Combat Technician, Once Again | Part 2/3 )

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( Scrapped Princess | Canzonetta of the Unforgiven | The Songstress | Part 4/5 )

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( Scrapped Princess | Canzonetta of the Unforgiven | The Songstress | Part 2/5 )

One tricky thing is that the narration tends to make these general sort of observations, and they often blend into story-specific ones. Like in this chapter, talk about high roads segues into an explanation of the specific high road that leads to Taurus. I keep going back and forth about whether to keep those bits in present tense (as though Dustvin, Manurhin, Taurus, etc. were real places, or as though magic actually existed) or to switch them to past tense like the rest of the story-specific narration.

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( Scrapped Princess | Canzonetta of the Unforgiven | The Travelers Come | Part 3/4 )

If she looks like she might not even be ten yet, then why the hell does she have--Ahh, forget it.

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( Scrapped Princess | Prelude of the Stray Cat Princess | The Guardian's Melancholy | Part 1/7 )

Time for your annual Scrapped Princess novel translation!

. . . orz

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( Scrapped Princess | Prelude of the Stray Cat Princess | A Fateful Choice | Part 4/4 )