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December 2, 2024 - January 7, 2025
Darj Tarats, the Councilor for the Miners”—
Dekakel Onchu, the Councilor for the Pilots.
trust me,
A bit of colloquial verbal tic, quite useless in suspicious circumstances. Haha
Haha
Eight Antidote
a set that was partially built out of a real historical warship, a museum piece from four hundred years ago, the same time as when the story took place.
Emperor Two Sunspot—
the Ebrekti
Eleven Cloud—
it made him—feel nervous, and excited, and interested, and a little awful.
Eleven Cloud and Two Sunspot were in bed together in Palace-Earth,
Two Sunspot
Eleven Cloud
Haha
everyone had politics, even if only some people had sex.
Eleven Laurel
One Lightning,
when he felt really awful and interested at the same time,
Six Direction
Three Seagrass
Mahit
Haha the LSR - long slow romance
Where is her luggage? Question
Five Agate
“Reed,”
the next part of this story
She’d always liked those sorts of poems, even if they invariably ended in tragedy.
Haha
Eleven Laurel.
“You are in trouble, aren’t you. Or the Empire is. It’s a bad war.”
Why would the Fleet want a diplomat, when they already have warships, if this wasn’t a bad war?
for a moment she sounded like—someone else. The way her face moved, too—not quite right.
A week wasn’t enough to know someone. But that week seemed longer. Fulcrum points usually did.
she
Mahit - switch p.o.v.
The Edgeshine of a Knife,
remember the colonist-workers of Peloa-2 as Teixcalaanlitzlim who died in combat,”
Twenty Cicada
What about people in the other ships?
a funeral for so many dead at once could only be done via the modes Teixcalaan had developed either for commemorating space-dead, or the ones for plague victims.
Nine Hibiscus
He’d made a disturbingly convincing argument that the eviscerated bodies were plague-dead and the plague was the aliens,
Simile but not apt.
The next planet they recaptured might have survivors.
A war of extermination, against these aliens, would have a great many Teixcalaanli casualties, more than she was willing to risk, even if the first group of them happened to be someone else’s legion and not her own people.
In the whole fleet? Question?
Be felt, collectively.
with parasites beaten away,
homeostasis, and balance.
the homeostat-cult,
running in perfect systematic balance.
