Timeline · 1096–1099

“I'm an adult human mind in a Djall body, and the body is already betraying me.”

~1 hr read · 14,089 words

“There. That is a month. I have kept some of it.”

~5 min read · 112 words

“It isn't. The memory isn't hazy or distant; it's gone. A blank spot on the canvas.”

~1 hr read · 14,225 words

“It's just the Oripathy stringing nonsense together.”

~25 min read · 6,057 words

“If I ever want them to believe me about anything again, I have to agree that the one true thing about me is a spot on my brain scan.”

~20 min read · 4,427 words

“But today, for the first time since I woke up, Rhodes Island isn't moving.”

~40 min read · 9,185 words

“Until the routine breaks. The 12th of September.”

~10 min read · 2,500 words

“Her weight against me is nothing at all.”

~15 min read · 3,846 words

“Ace reaching down to ruffle my hair, telling me to eat more so I could keep up.”

~50 min read · 11,410 words

“There's an entire world outside the landship that doesn't just taste of ash, cold copper, and fear.”

~1.5 hr read · 20,279 words

“At the top of the ramp I look out, and my feet stop.”

~40 min read · 9,634 words

“I remember my promise to Miss Adele—that I wouldn't hide from the world, but step into it to understand it.”

~1 hr read · 13,240 words

“Fragile, but alive.”

~35 min read · 8,514 words

“The landship's reinforced bulkheads have sealed the ocean breeze away.”

~25 min read · 5,195 words

“It's terrifying when you can feel everything they're hiding, Lethe.”

~35 min read · 8,293 words

“We sit there a long time, the silence of the landship's night cycle broken only by her wet hiccups.”

~10 min read · 2,628 words

“I can't do it again.”

~15 min read · 2,959 words

“I may eventually forget why I chose to love them so fiercely.”

~50 min read · 11,659 words

“But we can refuse to let them bleed to death in the dark.”

~2 hr read · 24,256 words

“Her strides are even, without the dragging limp that plagued her for weeks.”

~2.5 hr read · 36,716 words

“She believes I am another box of freight.”

~55 min read · 12,175 words

“For the first time in what feels like forever, Rhodes Island is at peace.”

~1 hr read · 14,310 words

“We do not leave people to bleed out in the dark, no matter who they are or what they've done.”

~2 hr read · 28,424 words

“I can't let my friends stain their hands with the blood of desperate people, and I can't let these rebels walk out of here carrying the iron that will get them all killed.”

~35 min read · 8,562 words

“I open my eyes, looking at my friends to ground myself.”

~1 hr read · 15,525 words

“The dates stop at September. The current month.”

~2 hr read · 29,827 words

“Okay. Together.”

~40 min read · 8,866 words

“But Lethe… Lethe is the girl who found a home in the Convalescent Garden.”

~1 hr read · 14,047 words

“Not tonight. Not immediately. Not a schedule someone else built for me.”

~1.5 hr read · 23,666 words