A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
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Information were—
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Britishism.
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Third Palmer talk, Fleet intelligence,
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The Third Palm
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Parabolic Compression
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Weight for the Wheel,
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“Porcelain Fragment Scorched,”
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Haha simile of the future.
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you remind me ever so much of Minister Nine Propulsion.”
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the long reach of the Palms
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Knifepoint
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Dreaming Citadel
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Three Seagrass’s
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an envoy’s suit, with its faint echo of a Fleet uniform
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And it was all entirely, completely, and thoroughly legal. She’d signed off on it herself.
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Haha not Mee too
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Flower Weave
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the Science Ministry’s
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“Captain Eighteen Gravity,”
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smile like a barbarian: bared teeth and gleeful.
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Haha
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the ixplanatl tech.”
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carpaccio
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Haha. Carpaccio: an Italian hors d'oeuvre consisting of thin slices of raw beef or fish served with a sauce.
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Barbarians were the next best thing to aliens. Mahit was the best of the barbarians Three Seagrass had ever met, and also she missed her.
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Amhamemat Gate
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Verashk-Talay Confederation,
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the Anhamemat Gate also led to places where incomprehensible aliens were making trouble for the Fleet’s newest yaotlek,
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Five Agate,
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ezuazuacatlim,
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Two Cartograph;
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He was very healthy and clever for someone who had been born from a uterus, on purpose.
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Eleven Laurel.”
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Epigraph to chapter 2, and mentor to Eight Antidote, pp. 40-45. Trustworthy? Question
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the Third Undersecretary to the Minister of War.
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Haha
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ezuazuacat
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I don’t know him, I’ve never spoken to him personally.”
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the one she’d sworn two months ago, with Mahit and Nineteen Adze, had healed to invisibility.
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They must have been watching her the whole time, ever since she’d answered the yaotlek’s request.
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the Sunlit
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Teixalaanti police
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every eye opening to the Emperor Herself. It almost felt benevolent. Almost.
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Fascinating
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former Minister Nine Propulsion’s ever-so-convenient early retirement.
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carrying with us our seeds of civilization like sacrifice-blood welling from the palms of those first planet-breakers—
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Simile
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an empire that holds a galaxy-net of stars in its teeth learns also to speak our poetry in a thousand languages.
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Teixcalaan rules as much through words as through deeds.
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Emperor Twelve Solar-Flare,
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Emperor One ...
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Councilor for Hydroponics,
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Mahit
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Darj Tarats
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Councilor for the Miners
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