Emily M’s Reviews > Absolution > Status Update

Jesus. I knew Central was weird, but what thought process justifies treating these traumatized lesbian biologists like Napoleons, dangerous enough to be exiled each to their own Elbas?

“‘We’re using the cover of a bunch of stupid Ouija Hicks…They already call the whole coast Active Site X, like they’ve planted a flag…But little do they know, we’ve planted a flag in them.’ ‘What’re they called? These Ouija Hicks?’ ‘The Seance and Science Brigade.’ Old Jim didn’t like brigades, made him think of civil wars and unrest. But also of fools who didn’t clean their weapons.”

“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.”

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