A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1)

by Arkady Martine

If these legionary warships destroy us, I will have you unseated in whatever government replaces the fifteen generations of our Council. You and Amnardbat both. The appeaser and the isolationist. I will have you unseated and your imago-lines destroyed. —note signed D.O., hand-delivered to the offices of Darj Tarats, 251.3.11-6D

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