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Kalmia from the Shama POV



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  1. Rec 30

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    “Are these the voices of the dead?” the Islander asked, his voice rich with concern.

    “I don’t think so,” His Radancy said absently, his eyes unfocused and glowing. “There is something else going on here.” Once again he spoke in answer to the disembodied voice, and Cliopher blinked, expecting him to have been as surprised as he was. A suspicion began to bloom in the back of his mind, for twice now the second voice had mirrored his own thoughts.

    He concentrated for a moment, focusing on a single clear thought, and a moment later, the second voice spoke out again. “Are these our thoughts?

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    25 Dec 2024

  2. Rec 26

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    The taboos are arbitrary, extensive, and born of long custom rather than logical sense.

    Fortunately, so are Zunidh’s marriage laws.

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    25 Dec 2024

  3. Rec 26

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    It took me an appalling three hours and thirteen minutes to even realize that Kip was gone.

    Ah, but that was too charitable. Once we had a timeline together, we discovered that Franzel had seen Kip last, turning in for bed at twelve minutes before midnight, and it was not until Shoänie went to wake him at dawn that anyone knew he was anything but asleep in bed. This meant that by the time the knock on my study door came, shortly past the third hour of the morning, Kip could already have been missing for more than nine hours.

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    In which Cliopher goes missing midway through The Hands of the Emperor. Fortunately, he has friends and family willing to do whatever it takes to bring him home.

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    25 Dec 2024

  4. Rec 39

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    Cliopher's first morning with the Sun-on-Earth was everything he could have dreamed of, until it wasn’t.

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    Cliopher and his Radiancy break time. Again.

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    19 Dec 2024

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    “My mother would tell me to keep you as far away from me as possible so you won’t have a chance to kill me for my position,” Meng Yao’s brother told him.

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