66% of the way through a book that came out in 2021 and so far there is One moment and One image…

66% of the way through a book that came out in 2021 and so far there is One moment and One image that I liked 1) mage opens a portal and immediately one of his cats jumps through it into the dangerous unknown. Would happen, genuinely charming moment 2) the emperor has replaced all his human servants with canvas doll robots and she says the courtiers have clearly competed with each other to hire…