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December 2, 2024 - January 7, 2025
Bardzravand Sector,
the Anhamemat Gate
discont...
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There is an inability to assemble the light into any coherent image. A collapse of meaning.
discontinuity
Simile metaphor double, and a third, extended.
Dekakel Onchu
imagined how the shimmering black between stars could resolve into hungry, lamprey-mouth rings.
Could devour the entirety of an imago-line before there was any chance of ...
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the Far Gate.
hoped at least she wouldn’t have to deal with any more ring-ships eating her pilots.
discontinuity
discontinuity
the extinguishing of the voices on that ring-ship does not alter the volume of the song, but only its shape.
the Ebrekti,
Eleven Lathe
ixplanatl Two Catenary,
There are no records including “re-implantation” in the database.
imago repair”
Mahit
Darj Tarats
Dekakel Onchu
They were very beautiful, all those ships.
Simile
she still felt doubled.
Are we still Mahit Dzmare?
She had imagined the Fleet, and feared it, and admired it, and seeing it was still a profound discontinuity.
discontinuity, appeared in the second interlude and this chapter. Watch for it.
Three Seagrass
Haha
Twenty Cicada,
Mahit
Haha
simply, deliciously, hideously intrigued.
She brushed Mahit’s wrist with warm fingertips as she passed by, and Mahit followed her easily, thinking of flowers that turned toward sunlight, and less pleasant tropisms—gravity wells, the attraction of insects to rot.
do you have the authority to negotiate with our screaming aliens on behalf of your Station?”
Haha
Haha
Haha
she was here to spy on the war for Darj Tarats, in order to escape Aknel Amnardbat’s surgeons.
Three Seagrass, all edges, interest and wariness and a sort of invitation deferred:
a solid wall of ship
A solid wall of ship
disconti...
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hundreds of tiny triangular ships, arrayed in racks awaiting their pilots,
It was like being inside an enormous machine
Simile extended wonderfully.
no matter how many soldiers there are in Teixcalaan, all ships burn the same.
an electrum shade,
Mahit didn’t have much time to wonder about internecine competition between the legions making up the attack force;
the ikantlos-prime Twenty Cicada,
