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by
John Scalzi
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February 3 - March 4, 2025
Huma Lagos,
“The fucking Nohamapetans,”
the Lagos home system of Ikoyi,
Jemisin.
Haha N.K. Jemisin
Lord Pretar,
what is the bigger problem?” “The complete collapse of the Flow, the end of the Interdependency, and the possible extinction of the human race.”
two days from now?”
Everything’s happening in 2 days.
Haha
the Guild Court of Grievances
if she pushed you down a hole, she’d make it look like you jumped.
Haha simile metaphor
every time there’s a new attack, it’s Nadashe who’s agitating for a military response to the guilds and parliament.
Haha where Kiva gets her get up and go.
Haha mee too but no one wants that exactly. Gratitude for the good qualities inherited, and therapy for the bad.
“This isn’t a negotiation,” Huma and Kiva said, simultaneously, and then looked at each other and grinned.
And we say nothing for what you have planned at End.”
“As you’ve so humiliatingly pointed out to me more than once in this conversation, it’s not entirely my call to make.
Now we know what they’re up to. They’re planning to take over End.” “Right,” Kiva said. “But why?”
“They’re risking a lot to position themselves at the ass-end of space, and I think they’re willing to give up a lot to keep it quiet.”
“Marce Claremont,”
“It’s not whether she tells everyone,” Huma said. “It’s whether they believe her.”
“It’s the truth.” “Oh, my daughter,” Huma said, and smiled. “Don’t tell me you don’t know how little that actually means.”
Marce Claremont
Except now we will all have to find a new way to survive,
Marce, currently in possession of eighty million marks in his data crypt,
Why didn’t the kidnappers see that? I thought they got into the crypt and left his photos and music? See pp. 104, 144.
Verson Sohne,
Cardenia, now Grayland II,
there’s a difference between knowing something intellectually and the animal portion of your brain telling you to grab hold of something.”
Obelees Atek,
the standard for obnoxious opulence,
Haha.
The imperial palace was stuffed with a millennium of gilded baubles, a testament to the self-interest of a family and the political system that supported it.
Marce looked around and wondered how an emperox, someone so intimately invested in the preservation of a system like the Interdependency, could ever be able to act on the news he had to give her.
An emperox sent your father to End to study this.
“I … well. Ma’am. It looks like a museum exploded inside of it.”
Haha
have a lot of meetings, Lord Marce. You might not believe how many. I couldn’t possibly keep them all straight without help.
Mee too I remember those days. Had a Secretary (“assistant”) for the calendar, and an Investigator for each case, and sometimes a paralegal too.
Haha simile.
“I am nobility, ma’am. It’s not alien. It’s just a lot.”
more Flow streams will have collapsed, and that will be the evidence.”
Terhathum.
eighty-seven months from now. The second of those dates is when we expect the final streams to close.”
“Right now our prediction models have the stream to End closing sometime between eighty and eighty-seven months from now.”
“Lord Marce, your plan is done, but I still may need you. Will you stay?”
I can command your assistance. But I am asking for your help.”
“I’ve hired Lord Marce as a special assistant for science policy.
Cardenia
Marce Claremont.
Imperial guards swarmed through the House of Lagos offices in the Guild House,
Kiva
Lord Pretar,
“Hibert Limbar.
