Status Updates From Les Cieux pétrifiés

‘“I would estimate,” Steel continues, “that Guardians typically last three or four thousand years. Can you imagine that length of time?”’

Did I miss something in the earlier books bc they live HOW long????

“Threads of silver roam over her body, determining her discomfort by touching her nerves and then repairing her bruises and scrapes; other threads whip the particles of the bed until friction warms them; yet more threads search her skin for infinitesimal dry flakes and flecks of dust, and scrub them away....”

It's like that one futuristic shower in the Sims games

‘“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”’

Go off, Hoa!!

“The briar patch’s victims have been here for years. Decades. There are hundreds of them in view, and thousands more out of sight if the sinkline thicket extends all the way around the amethyst’s base. Millions, when multiplied by two hundred and fifty-six. We cannot see Tetlewha, or the others, but we know that they, too, are here somewhere. Still alive, and yet not.”

The Matrix?