diff --git a/tweed5-minecraft/networking/src/main/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/minecraft/networking/api/ByteBufReader.java b/tweed5-minecraft/networking/src/main/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/minecraft/networking/api/ByteBufReader.java
index 6498d28..9f17792 100644
--- a/tweed5-minecraft/networking/src/main/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/minecraft/networking/api/ByteBufReader.java
+++ b/tweed5-minecraft/networking/src/main/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/minecraft/networking/api/ByteBufReader.java
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ public class ByteBufReader implements TweedDataReader {
 				if (specialEmbedType == ByteBufSerdeConstants.UINT6_TYPE) {
 					return wrapTokenForContext(new ByteToken((byte) (b & ByteBufSerdeConstants.SPECIAL_EMBED_VALUE_MASK)));
 				} else if (specialEmbedType == ByteBufSerdeConstants.SMALL_STRING_TYPE) {
-					int length = (b & ByteBufSerdeConstants.VALUE_MASK) + 1;
+					int length = (b & ByteBufSerdeConstants.SPECIAL_EMBED_VALUE_MASK) + 1;
 					ByteBuf byteBuf = buf.readBytes(length);
 					return wrapTokenForContext(new StringToken(byteBuf.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
 				}
diff --git a/tweed5-minecraft/networking/src/test/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/minecraft/network/api/ByteBufReaderWriterTest.java b/tweed5-minecraft/networking/src/test/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/minecraft/network/api/ByteBufReaderWriterTest.java
index 7562669..36573ac 100644
--- a/tweed5-minecraft/networking/src/test/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/minecraft/network/api/ByteBufReaderWriterTest.java
+++ b/tweed5-minecraft/networking/src/test/java/de/siphalor/tweed5/minecraft/network/api/ByteBufReaderWriterTest.java
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ public class ByteBufReaderWriterTest {
 			writer.visitMapStart();
 			writer.visitMapEntryKey("first");
 			writer.visitNull();
-			writer.visitMapEntryKey("bytes");
+			writer.visitMapEntryKey("kind-of a_weird/key!");
 			writer.visitListStart();
 			writer.visitByte((byte) 12);
 			writer.visitByte((byte) -12);
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class ByteBufReaderWriterTest {
 			assertThat(reader.readToken()).extracting(TweedDataToken::isMapStart).isEqualTo(true);
 			assertNextMapKey(reader.readToken(), "first");
 			assertThat(reader.readToken()).extracting(TweedDataToken::isNull).isEqualTo(true);
-			assertNextMapKey(reader.readToken(), "bytes");
+			assertNextMapKey(reader.readToken(), "kind-of a_weird/key!");
 			assertThat(reader.readToken()).extracting(TweedDataToken::isListStart).isEqualTo(true);
 			assertByteToken(reader.readToken(), (byte) 12);
 			assertByteToken(reader.readToken(), (byte) -12);