A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)

by Arkady Martine

Information were—

Britishism.

Third Palmer talk, Fleet intelligence,

The Third Palm

Parabolic Compression

Weight for the Wheel,

“Porcelain Fragment Scorched,”

Haha simile of the future.

you remind me ever so much of Minister Nine Propulsion.”

the long reach of the Palms

Knifepoint

Dreaming Citadel

Three Seagrass’s

an envoy’s suit, with its faint echo of a Fleet uniform

And it was all entirely, completely, and thoroughly legal. She’d signed off on it herself.

Haha

Haha not Mee too

Flower Weave

the Science Ministry’s

“Captain Eighteen Gravity,”

smile like a barbarian: bared teeth and gleeful.

Haha

the ixplanatl tech.”

carpaccio

Haha. Carpaccio: an Italian hors d'oeuvre consisting of thin slices of raw beef or fish served with a sauce.

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.

Amhamemat Gate

Verashk-Talay Confederation,

Haha

the Anhamemat Gate also led to places where incomprehensible aliens were making trouble for the Fleet’s newest yaotlek,

Five Agate,

ezuazuacatlim,

Two Cartograph;

He was very healthy and clever for someone who had been born from a uterus, on purpose.

Eleven Laurel.”

Epigraph to chapter 2, and mentor to Eight Antidote, pp. 40-45. Trustworthy? Question

the Third Undersecretary to the Minister of War.

Haha

ezuazuacat

I don’t know him, I’ve never spoken to him personally.”

the one she’d sworn two months ago, with Mahit and Nineteen Adze, had healed to invisibility.

They must have been watching her the whole time, ever since she’d answered the yaotlek’s request.

the Sunlit

Teixalaanti police

every eye opening to the Emperor Herself. It almost felt benevolent. Almost.

Fascinating

former Minister Nine Propulsion’s ever-so-convenient early retirement.

carrying with us our seeds of civilization like sacrifice-blood welling from the palms of those first planet-breakers—

Simile

an empire that holds a galaxy-net of stars in its teeth learns also to speak our poetry in a thousand languages.

Teixcalaan rules as much through words as through deeds.

Emperor Twelve Solar-Flare,

Emperor One ...

Councilor for Hydroponics,

Mahit

Darj Tarats

Councilor for the Miners