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December 2, 2024 - January 7, 2025
He’s a homeostat-cultist.>
“The Fleet Captain Sixteen Moonrise of the Twenty-Fourth Legion,”
the spook and her pet
Haha
Haha
the barbarian talked to invisible ghosts inside her head. Invisible, blackly hilarious ghosts.
Simile
One Lightning,
Simile strong.
“That alien did not make those sounds from that throat, yaotlek,”
Haha
“I’m the spook.”
“We’re here to help.”
Simile haha
in this first-contact scenario.
A Teixcalaanli general who would bare her teeth while smiling. All energy, all danger.
This tangle of Fleet Captains was—significant, important;
Simile disappearing fish 2
Twenty Cicada—Swarm.
Teixcalaanlitzlim weren’t supposed to have names which were animals,
They might be able to say something to the aliens, but it was almost certainly going to be a wrong thing, a half-formed and misshapen utterance, distorted by human tongues and human minds.
But it might draw them in close,> Yskandr murmured, and she thought, Bait. Just like Darj Tarats had used Lsel as bait for Teixcalaan.
Just as she herself was...
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I don’t want to be bad at my job on purpose,
the places they were misaligned bloomed into pain.
how easily she’d been scooped up out of the Station, slipped easily into the politics and pleasures and poisons of Teixcalaan.
how much she wanted to be useful, and how much she hated that wanting.
Simile
Nine Hibiscus
Sixteen Moonrise,
Haha
There were laryngic membranes, all right.
all very regular and mammalian-standard:
Whatever political game Sixteen Moonrise was playing,
Haha
“A syrinx,”
“Birds have them.
Some small part of the mystery of them undone.
Just meat, like any other dead thing.
Kauraan was won by soldiers, using the best possible intelligence I could procure. I don’t deny my people resources, Fleet Captain.
“The Fleet has an intelligence service,” said Sixteen Moonrise,
Third Palm,
One Lightning,
Nine Propulsion
Minister Nine Propulsion, Nine Hibiscus’s patron and mentor, her political protection.
the new Minister of War, Three Azimuth,
“With your record, I can’t imagine otherwise,”
Why is this “vicious”? Why does it trigger hatred? Question
which was vicious.
Twenty Cicada
Three Seagrass
