Status Updates From Absolution (Southern Reach,...

“An all-encompassing susurration came from the sky…At first, no one could identify exactly whether it was birds or bats, until the dislocating truth occurred: both birds and bats, of the same mind, a kind of confusion of tongues and wings…a pounding of hooves…as white tailed deer charged out of the marshes…followed by…smaller mammals: raccoons, opossums…bobcats…oblivious to who was predator and who was prey.”

“But Old Jim knew. He knew the stranger was a Rogue, and he was inclined to consider this Rogue an agent of sorts - a person who, in Central parlance, would come to mean the familiar unfamiliar, ‘one who knows us but is not us.’..Such a person moves against the pattern of tides…of seasons and, in that sense, was not bound by the idea of Time as experienced on the Forgotten Coast. Such a person was dangerous.”

I think I like this guy a lot better now that he’s descending into madness

OK, 4th book 10+ years later! Let’s see what this has for us…