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Three Seagrass could imagine the conversation perfectly: You weren’t really planning on coming back, asekreta, were you? asked the imaginary interrogator, and imaginary future-Three-Seagrass would have to shrug and say, I wasn’t thinking about that, I was preparing to serve Teixcalaan, and then it’d be up to the two of them to figure out if she was lying.
Her current and regretful capacity to communicate in either Verashk or Talay was limited to asking for the location of a washroom and ordering one large beer, please, the sort of phrase that bored cadets yelled at each other gleefully in hallways. Right now she had ordered one large beer, please,
It looked more like politics to Eight Antidote, and everyone had politics, even if only some people had sex.
A week wasn’t enough to know someone. But that week seemed longer. Fulcrum points usually did.
Mahit wondered what he’d do if she vomited on his desk. She felt as if she might.
I will have to revise your intelligence downward, and that would be a shame.
She wasn’t stupid. No one who could command loyalty like that was stupid. They couldn’t be. He was pretty sure.
“And enough flowers for every deck,” Three Seagrass added. “All those lotuses . . .” “As I said: better than subsistence.” Beauty, then, was part of his definition of self-sufficiency.
let me hold the bleeding lips of this injury open for you to see the raw hurt inside.
She had begun petting the Kauraanian kitten, and it purred like it wanted to be a starship engine when it grew up.
That would be nice, wouldn’t it. Most things turned out not to be nice, so perhaps she should immediately forget she’d thought of it.)
Mahit tried to remember the symptoms of incipient heat exhaustion and figured being unable to remember them was a symptom in and of itself.
there were a lot of people in the Jewel of the World once you got on the subway, and they all seemed to know where they were going and weren’t distracted or overwhelmed by anything they saw, which felt absurd.
She wondered if she could get away with shooting Sixteen Moonrise, just by accident. Probably not. Not until she had an excuse.
