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Nghi Vo
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May 3 - May 12, 2024
Rabbit turned the mammoth upside down to show Chih what they had missed, a tiny maker’s mark stamped on one round foot.
Yan Lian,
The court physician had confirmed that the empress was with child.
The court women wondered how In-yo could tell, so stocky and round, but they walked more carefully around her.
“The Emperor of Pine and Steel
would honor you for housing the future prince.”
“No, I do not like chains around my neck.”
I was so startled that I told her the truth.
Yan Lian
Another quadruple simile, followed a straight comparison.
She wore men’s clothes in those days, and she swaggered into the women’s quarters
Yan Lian used the accent they use down in the water and flower districts, where every sensual pleasure commands a price and nothing is more embarrassing than getting a kiss for free, as if it were charity.
she heard something in the other woman’s voice and smiled.
I should not like to see my designs copied.”
Haha
I assume that at some point they spoke of designs.
Haha
laughing,
sighing,
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giggles,
the slide of skin on silk
She snored slightly, but it was a satisfied sound,
There was a vivid red bite on her shoulder
She was as little like a proper Anh lady as a wolf is like a lapdog,
Simile
“They teach us to look out of the corners of our eyes when we are very young in the north. Less movement to startle the things we hunt or to attract the attention of those who would hunt us.
I thought she would never be alone again, not if I could help it.
Simile extended
The mammoth? Or in-yo?
Haha
the Palace of Gleaming Light,
“It is trash,” she said shortly, “but if you want to understand people who have gone, that’s what you look at, isn’t it? Their offal. Their leavings.”
Kau-tan,
known as the prince in exile.
There is nothing that can comfort a mother whose child was taken so unwillingly from her arms,
The hair belonged to her mother.
The jacana feather was a sign of exile, hers.
Simile
the cold, misty dampness of a revenant.
Simile
Chih dreamed
the palanquin that carried her west,
the direction of death and endings.
Cf. LOTR and the Gray Havens.
Thriving Fortune
So weak after what the doctors had done to her to prevent there ever being another heir to contest the rule of the first.
“Because one of these boxes is no kin to any of the others.”
Thriving Fortune
the Minister of the Left
the noble kirin.
“It does not do to have them grow to love me or to be too loyal to me, either,” said In-yo.
them editor
