Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore by Kolina Vales https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam en-us 2023-05-24 09:41:41 UTC 2025-10-16 17:08:57 UTC hello@padlet.com “Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox’s hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world stories and lies” (Cashore 73). valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603142203 2023-05-24 10:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603142203 “I have lords like Danzhol, who stole for Leck, connecting with thieves who are stealing the things back, connecting with a strange peice of misinformation about gargoyles my advisers gave me, connecting with other kinds of knowleadge my advisers seem to prefer to discourages, connecting with knowledge the thieves would like to keep from me as well” (Cashore 309). valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603142623 2023-05-24 10:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603142623 “‘Lady Queen,’ Saf said again, suddenly falling into his chair, giggling hysterically, and adding, ‘How could you?’” (Cashore 598). valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603142918 2023-05-24 10:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603142918 “Runnemood went to prisons eleven o’clock stabbed nine sleeping prisoners in one room then set room on fire” (Cashore 713). valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603143145 2023-05-24 10:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603143145 “‘Hey what are you doing? Are you hurt?’ The person attached to the voice was voice was touching her with his hands, brushing off an accumulation of snow. ‘Hay, can you get up?’ She shook her head. ‘Can you talk? Is it the heights, Sparks?’ Yes. No. he shook her head. ‘You’re scaring me,’ he said” (Cashore 1111). valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603143403 2023-05-24 10:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603143403 valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603152442 Since becoming queen on one of the 7 kingdoms, Monsean, her advisers have kept her behind her desk signing papers upon papers. They all want to help and protect her because they have watched her grow up. So, they decide that they should take over the responsibility of overlooking the kingdom that the previous king had ruined. That also means that the give Bitterblue the documents to sign without giving her the whole picture of what her kingdom is like. When Bitterblue starts to suspect this, she decides to sneak out at night. She wanted to trust her advisers but knew that there was much more that they were not telling her. ]]> 2023-05-24 11:05:05 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603152442 valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603184605 After sneaking around for so long, Bitterblue felt the desire to have someone that should would not lie to, that she could trust.  Bitterblue was sitting in one of her courtyards one day with Giddon, a member of The Council, who was close friends with Po. ]]> 2023-05-24 11:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603184605 valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603195871 While sneaking around and about, Bitterblue made some friends: Saf, Saf’s sister, Teddy, and Teddy’s sister. She became incredibly close to them, gaining their trust. Yet, she never told them she was the queen r the hat ruled over them. Instead, she told them lies. Lies about how she worked in the kitchen making bread. Eventually, her secret would have to come out. So, one day as Bitterblue was visiting the court room, she found that Saf was accused of murder. When everyone stood up to greet the queen, Saf finally uncovered that Sparks, his supposedly friend that worked in the castle kitchens was actually the queen. ]]> 2023-05-24 11:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603195871 valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603672982 Bitterblue knew that something was wrong in the castle. After what happened in the court, Bitterblue also lost her new friends’ trusts. Bitterblue tried sneaking back out to apologize, but upon her return, she found something surprising. Even after everything went downhill and it felt like nothing else could go wrong, it did. One of Bitterblue’s advisers had gone crazy. One of her other advisers had told her that Runnemood, the adviser that went crazy, had done unthinkably things to her prisons. She later also finds out that Runnemood has been framing people in her city. That was how Saf was found in court.]]> 2023-05-24 18:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2603672982 valesk https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2609423273 After having a hard time trying to piece everything together, Bitterblue found one of her advisers, Thiel, on one of her city’s bridges. What Thiel did left Bitterblue completely shocked that she couldn’t move. Thiel decided to jump off the bridge into the water to end his life. After serving Bitterblue since she was a child, the two have been incredibly close. Loosing Thiel was something Bitterblue could never imagine. After being up there for so long that snow started to build on her shoulders, Saf showed up concerned. He did not know why Bitterblue was on her hands and knees, but it didn’t look right to him. He also knew that being on a bridge was not helping because of her fear of heights. ]]> 2023-05-30 17:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/valesk/fc76jcigrqf75tam/wish/2609423273