A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

by Arkady Martine

THE problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply.

Mahit knew that line of thinking. She knew it intimately and horribly, and she sympathized (she sympathized too much, this was her essential problem, wasn’t it?), and Three Seagrass was still wrong.