
Fourteen-year-old Marceau Leggett is a gifted but accident-prone apprentice artist living in the medieval seaside kingdom of Valemont. Unfortunately, his budding ambitions are often sabotaged by his clumsiness, leaving him in trouble more often than not (“Is that how you ended up with your hands covered in blue pigment? Watching girls instead of what you were doing?”). His younger sister, Delphine, is almost his polar opposite, a brave, adventurous girl who actively resists the restrictive expec
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