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Alex White
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June 14 - June 30, 2025
Boots
Cordell,
“This whole place was nearly burnt to a crisp. A little cigarette smoke ain’t going to hurt anything, girlie.”
“Probably going to name him Salvage.”
Orna
After the famine took most of Clarkesfall, she fought in the cages for food.”
Haha
When we got there, she’d killed most of the slavers and assembled a pretty decent antenna.
Anyway, she took my ship by force and offered to spare us if we brought her along.”
“I recorded Mother’s spell, from beginning to end, within one of the active sensor sweeps.”
Mother’s claws, dripping red. The witch’s thin, hateful lips.
Nilah
Orna
Simile
Thin, even trails of blood from Orna’s scalp came away on the cloth.
“Mother put her hand through you. No better way to say it.”
her ambient magical senses wound over its circuits.
Simile metaphor double
here she sat, racked with guilt for perhaps the first time in her life.
Maybe she was crying because there was nothing to be done. No training. No fixing.
Boots
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She wanted to personally give him the crystal containing her scans of Mother’s magic, to explain to him why she’d endangered everyone.
“In a battle, whatever happens, happens. You’re going to have to be okay with doing the best you could.”
“How did Cordell survive?” “He’s a good shieldmaster. Those guys can live through any crash, jump from any height, you name it.”
He, like everyone else on the ship, knew his magic would save him, and he had to live with the fact that he’d sent them to their deaths.
a fact they had to die with,
I know I did everything people expected of me…
It’s just that I make my living on perfection.”
A little bad luck in a fight turns into a whole lot of misfortune.”
“That’s cold comfort.” “It’s reality.
“Being so wrong about you. It’s embarrassing.
Nilah
Armin
no one had built anything ergonomic for the first mate, and he didn’t know what a skilled mechanist could do for him in that department.
knew how to carve her own seats
With these skills, she constructed a throne for Armin to make any datamancer jealous.
“I’m sorry.” Nilah had said those words far too rarely in her lifetime.
“Malik was only there because of me.”
“Malik was there because of Cordell.
“He was there because of Orna.
“And worst of all, he was there because of me.
Boots told me how you caught him when he almost fell.”
A world class catch indeed.
“Orna carried him to you. She took a lot of hits to keep him safe.”
He must’ve cast a spell on you on Carré, and it inspired you. He has that effect on people.”
She’d never known how to comfort others, having grown up racing.
“My husband is comatose, and I have to share the bits that remain with everyone.”
Simile. She is a ghost without Malik.
Nilah
Armin’s
The Harrow’s jump coordinates.
