Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be wo…

Jonathan Stroud
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Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many. ✨ Jonathan Stroud (2005). Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate, Disney-Hyperion
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