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March 21, 2024 22:07
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Chapter 17. Jovis: An island in the Monkey’s Tail
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“Not good?”
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March 21, 2024 22:07
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Chapter 17. Jovis: An island in the Monkey’s Tail
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“A very good,”
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March 21, 2024 19:57
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Chapter 49. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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She was a construct. They were all constructs – built by the Emperor’s hand.
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March 21, 2024 19:57
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Chapter 48. Jovis: Imperial Island
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Her eyes looked just like Emahla’s.
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March 21, 2024 19:55
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Chapter 46. Jovis: Imperial Island
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My knees gave way and the world went black.
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Dude what are you doing
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March 21, 2024 19:54
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Chapter 45. Ranami: Nephilanu Island
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86.0%
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“I would propose a thousand times if I knew you’d say yes in the end.”
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March 21, 2024 19:53
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Chapter 44. Lin: Imperial Island
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85.0%
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How could I never have seen one before and now had encountered two in one day?
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Mephi IS a creation of the emperor and Lin better save him
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March 21, 2024 19:52
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Chapter 44. Lin: Imperial Island
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Two spiraling horns rose from its skull, just over its ears.
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Is it a big Mephi
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March 21, 2024 19:52
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Chapter 44. Lin: Imperial Island
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The face of the Emperor lay in stillness below the surface, eyes closed.
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March 21, 2024 19:51
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Chapter 44. Lin: Imperial Island
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There had to be a way to repair him, even now once he’d died. If I did repair him, he’d be a new construct, no memory of me or his life before
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March 21, 2024 19:39
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Chapter 43. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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It plunged both blades into Mephi’s shoulders.
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If Mephi dies I’m committing murder
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March 21, 2024 19:35
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Chapter 42. Lin: Imperial Island
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80.7%
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Bing Tai leapt into the room and seized Bayan by the neck. Blood spurted.
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He’s not gonna die he’s not gonna die he’s not gonna die
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March 21, 2024 17:33
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Chapter 42. Lin: Imperial Island
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The Emperor had built a younger copy of himself, cobbled together from who knew how many people. Yet Bayan was different.
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March 21, 2024 17:32
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Chapter 41. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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“Not lonely. I am here with you.”
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I love him
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March 21, 2024 17:27
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Chapter 40. Lin: Imperial Island
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77.1%
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“He said he grew me. I don’t know what that means.”
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Weren’t there like jars of babies or something? Am I hallucinating?
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March 21, 2024 17:24
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Chapter 39. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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75.8%
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“And call me Nisong.”
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Called that (admittedly only a bit ago)
I still am not sure if she’s actually Nisong or if she just has the memories though
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March 21, 2024 17:23
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Chapter 39. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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75.0%
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“They said I could have married more advantageously than you.”
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Wait is this Lins mom? Or at least the memories from lins mom thanks to the machine
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March 21, 2024 17:22
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Chapter 39. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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. “Am I not now your family?”
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March 21, 2024 13:03
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Chapter 35. Lin: Imperial Island
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69.5%
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“You’re still not quite perfect.”
And then something struck the back of my head.
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Gosh darn it
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March 21, 2024 13:02
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Chapter 35. Lin: Imperial Island
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69.3%
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“You couldn’t have saved them.”
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Nooooooooo
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March 21, 2024 13:00
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Chapter 35. Lin: Imperial Island
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67.8%
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The way Father had failed in rewriting Bayan’s.
Bayan was a construct.
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:(
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March 21, 2024 12:59
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Chapter 34. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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67.3%
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She’d laughed and had kissed my cheek. “Jovis, you’re not a fighter.”
“I would be for you.”
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March 21, 2024 12:58
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Chapter 34. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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66.9%
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figured out that my strength had left me just as Mephi had grown ill
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What if Mephi was poisoned?
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March 21, 2024 03:06
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Chapter 32. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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63.5%
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You can spend your life chasing and running, living half a life.”
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March 21, 2024 02:52
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Chapter 31. Lin: Imperial Island
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It was the sort of stillness I’d seen in rabbits when predators were close – hoping they hadn’t been seen
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March 21, 2024 02:48
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Chapter 30. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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Nothing.
I was alone.
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Crap
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March 21, 2024 02:36
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Chapter 29. Lin: Imperial Island
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I was dead. According to the birth records, I was dead at three years old. Perhaps this was tied somehow to my memory, to why I couldn’t remember anything beyond three years ago. But then what were the memories in the journal, written in my handwriting?
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So she might not be Emahla but shes not Lin
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March 21, 2024 02:31
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Chapter 28. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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54.2%
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“I didn’t take bone,” the soldier had whispered, his breath hot against my ear. “I know what happened to your brother and I’m sorry.”
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Awww that’s sweet but also ruins my theories for plot points
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March 21, 2024 02:29
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Chapter 27. Lin: Imperial Island
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52.8%
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“Please no,” Bayan rasped out. “The memory machine.”
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March 21, 2024 02:28
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Chapter 27. Lin: Imperial Island
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52.7%
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“Hide me. Please.”
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This feels like a trap
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March 21, 2024 02:28
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Chapter 27. Lin: Imperial Island
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52.5%
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“Do you know what he does? He’s growing things down there, Lin. He’s growing… people. His experiments.”
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Uh oh
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March 21, 2024 02:24
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Chapter 27. Lin: Imperial Island
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50.9%
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“It’s much larger than back home.”
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Cause she’s not Lin
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March 21, 2024 02:23
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Chapter 26. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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50.6%
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His blue silk robes spilled about him like a waterfall. “What is it exactly that you want to know?”
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March 21, 2024 02:23
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Chapter 26. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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50.6%
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These memories that weren’t hers – whose were they?
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They’re probably hers as Lin or something … or as Emahla
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March 21, 2024 02:19
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Chapter 26. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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A boat with blue sails. Every time Sand’s memory threatened to go hazy, she thought of the blue sails. They hadn’t all been here on Maila for ever; perhaps none of them had. A boat had brought them. It followed that a boat could take them away.
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March 21, 2024 02:19
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Chapter 25. Lin: Imperial Island
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49.4%
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He doesn’t hit you because you are the favorite. You are the one he wants to win. You think he doesn’t care, but if he didn’t care, he’d hit you twice as hard. You don’t need all your memories back to see what he’s doing
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March 21, 2024 02:19
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Chapter 25. Lin: Imperial Island
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49.4%
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And then he swept for the door, the dark blue hem of his flowing pants like a retreating wave.
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I’m not going to ignore the color choice
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March 20, 2024 23:12
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Chapter 22. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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44.4%
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I hated myself for it.
But I couldn’t hate him.
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March 20, 2024 23:09
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Chapter 22. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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Onyu had been looking at me, his mouth curved in a slight smile. I think he meant to be reassuring. But I watched the life go out of his eyes as the chisel went too far, as it dug into his brain.
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:(
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March 20, 2024 23:07
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Chapter 22. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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42.9%
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It was probably the most foolhardy way to get a lot of portraits done for free.
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I love Jovis so much
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March 20, 2024 23:06
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Chapter 22. Jovis: Nephilanu Island
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“We do a very good,” he said in a stage whisper.
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March 20, 2024 18:44
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Chapter 17. Jovis: An island in the Monkey’s Tail
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33.3%
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“No.” I cleared my throat. “It’s the sort of good that you get sad about because you no longer have it. A very good.”
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March 20, 2024 18:39
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Chapter 16. Lin: Imperial Island
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31.1%
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His name is Jovis
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March 20, 2024 18:39
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Chapter 16. Lin: Imperial Island
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“My spies have brought me a rumor
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Is Mephi a spy?
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March 20, 2024 18:36
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Chapter 16. Lin: Imperial Island
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30.6%
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My spine stiffened as Father’s four highest constructs entered the room
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Her father is Rauru
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March 20, 2024 13:58
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Chapter 15. Jovis: An island in the Monkey’s Tail
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I’m not sure
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I feel like Mephi might be a construct
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March 20, 2024 13:54
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Chapter 14. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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Sand
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There’s also the possibly that Lin is Lin and that Sand is Emahla
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March 20, 2024 13:53
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Chapter 13. Lin: Imperial Island
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26.5%
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And I would show him that even broken daughters could wield power.
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March 20, 2024 13:44
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Chapter 12. Jovis: Somewhere in the Endless Sea
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25.2%
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“I knew I’d find you here.”
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How many friends does buddy have
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March 20, 2024 12:40
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Chapter 12. Jovis: Somewhere in the Endless Sea
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Onyu, had still been alive, before the Tithing Festival that had taken his life
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March 20, 2024 12:19
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Chapter 11. Ranami: Nephilanu Island
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Ranami, that’s the leader of the Shardless. My father wants to kill him. The Emperor wants to kill him.
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March 20, 2024 12:18
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Chapter 11. Ranami: Nephilanu Island
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21.7%
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. Phalue had a wealth of choices.
Ranami had not had the same.
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March 20, 2024 02:37
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Chapter 9. Jovis: A small isle east of Deerhead
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But this?
My brain promptly gave up
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I agree
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March 20, 2024 02:31
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Chapter 7. Jovis: Somewhere in the Endless Sea
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15.2%
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He was, after all, just a baby
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He just a baby
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March 20, 2024 02:28
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Chapter 7. Jovis: Somewhere in the Endless Sea
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– so faint I’d thought it a dream – the dark boat with the blue sails. A blink and it was gone.
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March 20, 2024 02:26
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Chapter 7. Jovis: Somewhere in the Endless Sea
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Alon’s shard would never be used to power a construct; he’d never need fear his life draining away at any given moment
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So did that happen to Jovis or was he saved?
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March 20, 2024 02:25
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Chapter 7. Jovis: Somewhere in the Endless Sea
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Shard-sick. Somewhere, her bone shard was in use, and it had nearly drained her life
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March 20, 2024 02:23
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Chapter 7. Jovis: Somewhere in the Endless Sea
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. He certainly didn’t look like the monstrous sea serpent from folklore
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If he dies I’m going to be very upset
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March 20, 2024 02:20
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Chapter 6. Sand: Maila Isle, at the edge of the Empire
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11.8%
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No. She was Sand. She was Sand collecting mangoes
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Super Early Theory #1.5 - this is the real Lin
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March 20, 2024 02:19
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Chapter 5. Phalue: Nephilanu Island
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If you want to see Ranami again, come to the Alanga ruins at the road leading from the city.
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… wow okay
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March 20, 2024 02:16
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Chapter 5. Phalue: Nephilanu Island
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“I’ve asked before. It’s not the first time. But she keeps telling me she doesn’t want to be a governor’s wife. What am I supposed to do with that? Abdicate?
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March 20, 2024 02:13
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Chapter 4. Lin: Imperial Island
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sickness was seeing my father’s foot, bloodied and bandaged, and asking him what had happened. “An accident,” he’d said gruffly
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This is important I can feel it
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March 20, 2024 01:56
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Chapter 2. Jovis: Deerhead Island
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5.1%
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In seven years, this was the best lead I had. If I was quick, I might be able to catch it.
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How many years has it been since Lin was ill?
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March 20, 2024 01:54
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Chapter 2. Jovis: Deerhead Island
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She was here one day and then gone the next, nineteen silver coins left on her bedspread
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March 19, 2024 17:51
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Chapter 2. Jovis: Deerhead Island
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4.2%
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I’d heard a rumor at the docks, a whisper of a disappearance similar to my Emahla’s
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Emahla is Lin and the emperor kidnapped her to replace his dead daughter
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March 19, 2024 17:51
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Chapter 2. Jovis: Deerhead Island
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4.2%
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And here I was – a trader without an Imperial contract, who’d had more than one run-in with the Empire’s soldiers
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Just admit youre a pirate
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March 19, 2024 17:50
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Chapter 2. Jovis: Deerhead Island
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4.1%
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“If you’re trying to attract a partner with that, best try a little less,” I said. It was a good piece of advice, but the soldier at my feet didn’t respond.
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I like this guy already
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March 19, 2024 17:43
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Chapter 1. Lin: Imperial Island
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2.9%
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He put all her handmaidens to the sword. He guarded the memories of her jealously, as if he was the only one allowed to have them.
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March 19, 2024 17:04
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Chapter 1. Lin: Imperial Island
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1.8%
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Had he loved me before I’d forgotten, when I’d been whole and unbroken
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March 19, 2024 14:58
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Chapter 1. Lin: Imperial Island
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But I could not remember my past before the sickness. Sometimes I thought I never would – that the girl from before was lost to me.
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Can I make an extremely extremely early theory? She’s not the princess and he wiped her mind to turn her into one
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March 19, 2024 02:49
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Chapter 1. Lin: Imperial Island
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Father told me I’m broken.
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