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[iviarellereads]

Nona the Ninth, Guest List and John 20:8

(Curious what I'm doing here? Read this post! For detail on The Locked Tomb coverage and the index, read this one! Like what you see? Send me a Ko-Fi.)

No chapter icon for either, but both have lots to talk about.

Dramatis Personae Guest List, as dictated by Nona and transcribed by "C. Hect"(1)

Dogs. Nona LOVES dogs. She wants all the dogs she knows at her party. She also wants all the members of the gang there, with all their unfamiliar names. There's also a teacher she calls The Angel she'd like to invite.

The Blood of Eden members are where this list starts to get interesting. "Crown Him with Many Crowns"(2) is shot down by Cam in notes, and "the Captain"(3) is "Not possible". Cell/Wing Commander We Suffer and We Suffer(4) is another flat no from Cam.

And of course, Nona's three guardians.

This is followed by the Houses poem, once more, in full.(5) Then, a new poem. Without saying anything too specific, I'd just suggest coming back to this every once in a while in the book. Since hopefully you've already read the John prologue-introduction before reading my notes, you might have an idea of why this might continue to be important throughout. Still, in a surface-level interpretation, it's a poem from someone being asked to sleep a while and leave another person to their revenge quest. This may sound familiar. Alecto and John, of course.

You held aloft the sword. I still love y

Then, onward, into John 20:8(6) which I think it's fair to assume is John and... well, if the last line is right, Harrowhark.

In the dream, he told her the words about where he took his degrees, his postdoc, his research fellowship. They were his noise and not really for consumption. More like meditation; like even his mouth knew the pointlessness of it, and just wanted to recite. Dilworth. Otago. Auckland. Overseas to Corpus. (She likes the word corpus; it sounds nice and fat.) Then another year abroad, where he got the grant and met the men who would make things happen. Special pleading with the New Zealand government and Asia-Pacific Environmental, at his suggestion, then back to the facility outside Greytown. They mocked it up to look like a freezing works. We all thought that was funny, he said.

He said: We just wanted to save you. You were so sick.(7)

Early on, the team was just A- and M-.(8) M- as a medical professional, A- "because he was the glycerol-6 genius." He also handles the shareholders for John, who still hates meetings.

C-(9) was brought in by the executives of the funding, as oversight, but she was on their side within a year.

Until the last year, there was every sign that the funders would see the project through. John wanted to be sure no one of the eleven billion was left behind.(10) When the funders started constructing other ships, John was told it was nothing, just some exploratory stuff. He even loaned them G-(11) for his expertise. M- didn't like it, but John said she shouldn't get too paranoid. This is how everyone can get out, and the trillionaires will go where the real exit is.

When the funders call to say the project has been cancelled, M- reminds him of this statement.

The two are sitting on a beach, with a fire he made from driftwood. The ash still falls, and makes them sick for a little while.

Anything that hurt them only ever hurt them for a little while.

She's sitting next to a pile of meat, for when they get hungry, which always happens at the same time.(11)

John continues that the worst part is that M- and A- cried in each other's arms, they were so scared, and John couldn't do anything about it.

He and she sit in the quiet for a while.

She prompted: So what did you do? He said: A damned thing, didn’t I. She said: When is the part where you hurt me?(12) He said: Soon. It’s coming up. She said: I still love you. And in the dream he rubbed his temple with his thumb and said: “You always say that, Harrowhark.”(13)

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(1) Camilla, naturally. (2) A hymn from 1851. Expect a lot of this sort of name. (3) Funny that the Captain has no other given name, no song or poem fragment. Even We Suffer gets a partial name. Do we know a captain with no historical document linked name in the BOE? (Sort of… if you squint and think Judith might have gone over after we last saw her in HtN) This also might recontextualize Crown's name if you think about it. (4) "We Suffer and We Suffer", now that we have a little more of the name we first learned in As Yet Unsent to contextualize, is a quote from Agamemnon, a play by Aeschylus from about 458 BCE. In a slightly fuller context, it's a line about how it is impossible to know the future, we must suffer the present and learn what's to come when it's time for it to happen. How very fitting of such an enigmatic character so far. (5) I also feel it's worth noting, this time, how the Lyctors are split into a trinary. His Lyctors, his Saints, his Hands. We saw them use all three in HtN. (6) Positioning this as a Bible verse is pretty clever of Muir. Since she's shown a preference for the DRB translation, here's John 20:8 "Then that other disciple also went in, who came first to the sepulchre: and he saw, and believed." However, it's also important to note that the numbers on this chapter can correspond to letters: TH. I think the duality is important. If this is your first read, I do not recommend looking at the table of contents in the ebook until the end. I'll keep you up on what all these chapter numbers are indicating as we get to them, promise. (7) Save who? Harrowhark? He couldn't have known her back then. And why would a cryogenic facility save anyone? (8) Augustine and Mercymorn? They were the first two to serve, and Mercy does have medical aptitude as we know her later/in the present. Only, why would John be using initials for his friends? (9) From context, Cassiopeia, founder of the Sixth, would have had the book-smarts for this, and was the Fourth Saint which tracks with being brought in earlyish in whatever this project is, though none of this project tracks with what we were told of the origins of the Nine Houses. (10) G1deon? Likely, as again, Third Saint. (11) It's a dream, so you shouldn't need to get hungry, but dream logic can also depend on what you expect to happen. Simultaneous hunger suggests a deeper link between these two people though. (12) How did John hurt whoever he was trying to save? (13) And here, now, why would Harrow be in a dream with John, how could she have been the one he saved? Or is something odd about this dream, too...

[jeennieekim]

Jennie Kim (born January 16, 1996, in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea), better known as Jennie, is a South Korean singer, rapper and dancer. Jennie is a member of BLACKPINK, as well as a soloist.

Jennie Kim was born as the only child of her parents. Her mother is a CJ & M Director and Shareholder, whilst her father owns a hospital. During her childhood, Jennie moved from her home to live in Auckland, New Zealand, where she spent five years and was a student at ACG Parnell College. During her time abroad, she learned to speak fluent English on top of basic Japanese and fluent Korean.

In 2010, Jennie moved to live in Seoul, South Korea and made a successful audition to YG Entertainment in the same year, becoming a YG trainee for six years

During the six years Jennie spent training under the company, in 2012 she featured on labelmate Lee Hi's song Special, as well as made an appearance on Big Bang's G-Dragon's music video That XX. In 2013, she featured on G-Dragon's song Black and GG BE by Big Bang's Seungri.

In 2016, she became the main rapper and lead vocalist of the girl group, Blackpink, which debuted on August 8, 2016.

In October 2018, an announcement of Jennie's official solo debut was made. In midst of preparation for her debut, it was decided that the track "Solo" would be first revealed at Blackpink's "In Your Area" tour in Seoul ahead of release on November 12th. "Solo" became the most viewed music video by a female K-pop solo artist of all time and within the first 24 hours of release. Kim then became the first and only female South Korean solo artist to surpass 300 million YouTube views within six months. In South Korea, "Solo" claimed the number one spot on the Digital and Streaming charts on Gaon Chart for two consecutive weeks. Kim later received her first-ever music show win as a solo artist on SBS' Inkigayo on November 25.

In 2022, it was announced Jennie will be making her Hollywood debut in the television series The Idol created by Abel "The Weeknd" Tesfaye, Reza Fahim, and Sam Levinson for HBO, making her the first Korean idol to feature in an American drama series.

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Wk 16, 23rd of June, 2024 Studio Work development

Sculpture that meets Organic Matter

Left and Right: Ashley Singer, casts using various white clays (magnolia stamen, rose petal, seed, magnolia stem), 2024, unfired clay

To me, sculpture is pivotal in its role of making tangible matter do something in space. Therefore, I use translation as a sculptural language throughout the casting area of my practice.

To me, sculpture is pivotal in its role of making tangible matter do something in space. Therefore, I use translation as a sculptural language throughout the casting area of my practice.

Taking organic matter from life, I am be able to work clay into the shape of the petals and other forms. I do this by rolling worked clay into a small ball and then pushing the clay evenly across the petal or surface of what is being cast.

Two things are complex about this process. Firstly, it is the awkward shape of petals and how easy the thin carbon matter is to tear under the heavier and more plastic-feeling clay. (see below the varieties of camellia and magnolia petals)

Nintin Mantri, Petal shape variability of Camellia species. Petals from A) C. fluviatilis; B) C. kissi; C) C. confusa; D) C. miyagii; E) C. tenii; F) C. puniceiflora ; G) C. obtusifolia; H) C. phaeoclada; I) C. brevistyla; J) C. lanceoleosa; K) C. oleifera; L) C. gauchowensis; M) C. vietnamensis; N) C. yuhsienensis; O) C. shensiensis; P) C. grijsii; Q) C. maliflora; R) C. hiemalis; and S) C. sasanqua, illustrating floral morphology containing continuous and discrete units, 2012, research figure in the essay Floral Morphology resolves the taxonomy of Camellia

Ethnobotanist Harriet Gendall, Magnolia coco, Magnolia grandiflora , Magnolia denudata, Magnolia hypoleuca, Magnolia kobus, Magnolia mexicana, Magnolia pterocarpa , Magnolia soulangeana, from the blog Magnolia Madness: which are the tastiest blooms?, 2019

Lilium (Lily Petals), shutterstock

Secondly, is the ability to take negatives from nature. I am not translating the petal perfectly by hand-casting in this way (unlike my bronze works which use complete silicone moulds to achieve the positive image of the cast matter). Sometimes only halves or fragments can be taken from the work. But you can also take small fragments of matter and impress them into clay squares to create tokens or rune-like shapes.

While maquette making is seen as a rough draft for work to be then made into a bronze cast, my use of casting differs. I see the language of maquette as just as interesting as the language of 'finished' bronze casting. By adopting the language of maquette in the materiality of clays and waxes, I make finished works that reach a completeness in their translation of organic matter.

Notes:

Clay types are varied in this practice...

kaolin (porcelain) is fine, soft, and very sticky so it has to be worked for an extended period to remove excess moisture so it can be adequately removed from the matter that is being cast.

high grog clay (earthenware types) is fill with sand, hence the word grog, and relies on easy mouldablibity, yet the sand makes the clay harsher on petals and prone to the granules tearing the carbon matter, so it is best used for creating tokens, or small tiles, or being worked with another clay type to balance it's hardness out.

wild clay (from new lynn)

air dry white clay (can dry and won't change form when wet)

Wax types are varied:

Candlewaxes are perfect for picking up the rind of the clementines and other citrus fruits I have been gathering and then casting. They can be poured into the hollowed out skins of the fruits and take the resemblance of the fruits flesh perfectly.

Other sediments:

Clay-based soil from the garden beds and boundary plots of my rented apartment in Hillsborough, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland)

Other things in the clay mix can include pollen, stones and other debris

Ashley Singer, observations of flowers dropping and the posture of petal growth, 2024, from the domain gardens Auckland, iPhone research images

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Mori @Guillemard Road

Mori @Guillemard

Freehold. City Fringe. Walk to 3 MRTs  √ Short drive away Suntec City/ Raffles Places/ River Valley √ A FREEHOLD DEVELOPMENT √ 6- 7 mins Walk to Mountbatten, Aljunied & Dakota MRTs √ Strategic Location in between 2 Keys Transformation Areas -Paya Lebar & Kallang √ Good schools within 1KM including Kong Hwa, Geylang Methodist √ Growth Potential & Excellent Connectivity to Town CLEARANCE DEAL 3BR + G 1173 sqft From $2,093,000 - Last 3 https://youtu.be/YQWXDMzRGXU https://youtu.be/Z4pdOkSgBT4 Quick LinksFact Sheet Unique Selling Points Nearby Amenities Showflat Virtual Tour Virtual Tours Floor Plan Brochures/ Floor Plan Clearance Sales Modern Wabi-Sabi Inspired Home  Mori Condo is a new upcoming development by Roxy-Pacific Holdings Limited. This site have the address at at 217-223A Guillemard Road and 1-21A Jalan Molek, District 14. About detailed info, this residences have total land area of about 3,450 sq m, equivalent to 37,131 sq ft and a maximum Gross Floor Area (GFA) of around 103,967 sq ft and a plot ratio of 2.8. Due to, GFA of this condo can be increased to 114,364 sq ft, with balcony area is 10%. In term of connectivity, Mori Freehold (Molek Condo) is located in a location with a convenient transportation network with many MRT nearby. One very important thing when choosing an apartment is the accessibility to MRT stations and this apartment is obviously perfectly connected in district 14. It only takes 6 minutes to reach Mountbatten MRT (CC7), 4 minutes to get to Aljunied MRT (EW9) and 8 minutes to get to Dakota MRT (CC8). So close that from these stations you have complete access to ECP, KPE, and PIE expressways.

There are many reputable schools for parents to send their children to school or participate in gifted training classes. Geylang Primary School and Geylang High School are all around, while Singapore School for the Deaf is just a 10-minute walk away. In addition, some schools cut several grades to meet the educational needs of every family. Some prominent names you can refer to are Kong Hwa School, Geylang Methodist School, Victory Life Christian School, St Gerard's International School and more. Fact Sheet TypeDescriptionsProject NameMori Developer NameRoxy Pacific Location223 Guillemard Road, Singapore 399738 (District 14)Tenure of LandFreeholdExpected Date of Completion (T.O.P.)31st Dec 2026Site areaApprox 3,450 (sq m) or 37,131(sq ft)Total No. of Units137 units in 5 & 8 storeys. Facilities at 2nd and 6th floor. (1-4 Bedrooms)Car Park Lots110 lots in 1st & basement storey + 3 accessible carpark + 23 bicycle lotsUpdated Fact Sheet for Mori at Guillemard Road

About By Roxy-Pacific Holdings Limited And TE2 Development Listed on the SGX Mainboard on 12 March 2008, the Group is principally engaged in the development and sale of residential and commercial properties (“Property Development”). The Group’s recurring income streams are strengthened through its flagship hotel in the heart of historical Katong, Grand Mercure Singapore Roxy, self-managed upscale boutique hotel, Noku Kyoto and Noku Osaka, Japan, and other investment properties in Asia-Pacific (“Hotel Ownership and Property Investment”). In Property Development, Roxy-Pacific is an established brand name for small to medium size residential developments such as apartments and condominiums targeted at middle to upper middle income segments. Between 2004 and 2017, the Group developed and launched 44 small-to-medium sized developments comprising a total of more than 4,300 residential and commercial units in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. For Property Investment, the Group owns 52 retail shops at The Roxy Square Shopping Centre in Singapore. In Australia, Roxy-Pacific owns a 50% interest in a 14-storey, freehold, commercial building at 117 Clarence Street in Sydney’s CBD and Melbourne House, a freehold six-storey commercial and retail building in Melbourne’s CBD. In Auckland, the Group owns NZI Centre and has a 50% interest in the office building at 205 Queen Street, marking Roxy-Pacific’s maiden foray into New Zealand.

Unique Selling Points - Rare Freehold - Own the strategic location - Long-term investment value. - By a famous developer Roxy-Pacific Holdings Limited that have many successful projects. - Within short distance to Aljunied MRT (EW9) and Dakota MRT (CC8). - Within a 10-minute drive to several shopping and entertainment centers including Kinex Mall, Kallang Wave Mall, Paya Lebar Square, SingPost and also Suntec City. - 15-minute drive to Changi International Airport, SUTD and Jewel ©Changi - Only 6-8 minutes drive to Suntec City, Bugis and 12 minutes drive to work Central Business District (CBD) - Located in the 2 fast-growing areas under Singapore URA Master Plan - that Kallang Riverside & Paya Lebar Regional Commercial Hub

Location Highlights

Mori @ Guillemard It is located along Guillemard Road. You can walk 5-6 minutes to Mountbatten (CC7)/ Aljunied MRT (EW9) or Old Airport Road Market & Food Centre, which are approximately 600m from the property. The new condo, which is freehold, is easily connected to two major expressways: KPE (Kallang–Paya Lebar Expressway), and PIE (Pan Island Expressway), making it easy to travel to other parts of Singapore. Famous landmarks like Singapore Sports Hub, National Stadium and Singapore Indoor Stadium Water Sports Centre are just a few examples. Under URA Master Plan 2019, Kallang Riverside, Kampong Bugis, will be transformed into a waterfront lifestyle and a residential precinct with car-lite amenities. We can expect more exciting developments in the future.AmenitiesAlong the Kallang Riverside, such as Waterfront Hotels and Shopping Malls and Restaurants, & approximately 4,000 Residential Homes.

Mori Condo is surrounded by a myriad of marvelous recreation facilities, where you can freely go shopping or take part in satisfying activities such as Paya Lebar Commercial Hub, Singapore Sports Centre, Singapore Indoor Stadium, Kallang ActiveSG Tennis Centre, or Kallang Wave Mall. Mori Condo is also a place that future residents can enjoy convenient life with great accessibility to any part of the island. Residents can easily enjoy meals in various options from local cuisines to worldwide scrumptuous delishes in unique restaurants and coffee shops. There is many restaurants and eateries such as Geylang Serai Food Center & Wet Market, Old Airport Road Market & Food Centre, and Kallang Estate Fresh Market & Food Centre. In addition, for families having children, there are many prestige educational institutions that nearby the condo such as Geylang Methodist School, Kong Hwa School, Dunman High School, Macpherson Primary or Broadrick Secondary, Canadian International School among many others. Thanks to great connectivity and convenience of Mori Condo at Kallang Area, a myriad of surrounding amenities like public utilities, shopping malls, schools,... can respond all essential demand of residents. Nearby Amenities Trains (MRT & LRT) • Mountbatten CC7 558m • Aljunied EW9 571m • Dakota CC8 676m  Groceries/ Shopping • FairPrice - Jalan Tiga 437m • Sheng Shiong 507m Schools • Global Indian International School - Mountbatten Campus 381m • Kong Hwa School 550m • Broadrick Sec 645m • Geylang Methodist 708m

Site Plan & Unit Mixes

Equipped with a collection of extravagant facilities, this development is the ultimate choice for your dream home in the metropolis. Some of this exciting areas include recreational facilities like the BBQ area, Gym and lap pool. The beautiful landscape of this development welcomes its future residents with an abundant greenery. With its area surrounded with towering buildings, it helps to give the residents a break from the busy ambiance. Calmness and serenity within its premises. Live with top quality finishes of chic and sleek and spacious layout that is meticulously designed with luxury and elegance in mind. Each individual space is fitted with best of fittings and finishes with you in mind.

Block Plan 1st Storey

Block Plan 2nd & 3rd Storey

Block Plan 4th & 5th Storey

Block Plan 6th to 8th Storey Unit Mixes: 4 lifts: 2 lifts at 5 storeys block; 2 lifts at 8 storeys block

Mori Units Mixes Showflat Virtual Tour https://youtu.be/YQWXDMzRGXU Virtual Tours Floor Plan

Brochures/ Floor Plan Ebrochure & Floor Plan Clearance Sales 3BR + G 1173 sqft From $2,093,000 - Last 3 Please Contact Us at +65.84188689 It is important to only engage the Official Direct Developer Sales Team to assist you to enjoy the best possible direct developer price. There is no commission required to be paid.

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[dancestamina]

I had tickets to see Alex G in Auckland for June 2020 which obviously was canned for public health reasons, but the date na noise are playing the Cardiff psych and noise fest, he's performing at another venue 200 m away ! Fateful 😌

[goldenpinof]

is dan's auckland show actually still going ahead? feels kind of irresponsible especially since auckland had declared a state of emergency. the lack of communication is alarming but what's new lol

i have no idea, honestly. looks like they decided to deal with Elton John's shows first which makes sense since it's a bigger deal than wad. but yeah, what's new, literally. i'm waiting for updates, i suppose we will have something by 3pm. he can't push it further, m&g starts at like 5pm?

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hilary.barry: Thank you @taylorswift for making Gracie’s dream come true. #andminetoo #taylorswift #reputationstadiumtour #omghowtallistaylorswift

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ii m&g auckland

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[ryttu3k]

It’s Nona time.

There are many spoilers ahead! Not enormously in this first bit, given that all but the very last section has already been released, but otherwise, spoilers abound.

Ready? Ready!

Nona the Ninth - Day One

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I would still die for Noodle and Stop It (name assumed)

You told me, Sleep, I’ll wake you in the morning.

I asked, What is morning? and you said,

When everyone who fucked with me is dead.

When everyone we loved has gone or fled,

That’s morning. Empty’s just another word for clean.

Let’s put this first-draft dream of mine to bed.

In the appointed hour

I’ll pull up your sheets. I’ll kill the light,

Lie down beside you; die; and sleep the night.

This time will be the time we get it right:

Forgiveness not so hard, nor anger long;

Our graves will be less deep, our lies less true.

You held aloft the sword.

I still love y

*eyes emoji*

John 20:8

IN THE DREAM, he told her the words about where he took his degrees, his postdoc, his research fellowship. They were his noise and not really for consumption. More like meditation; like even his mouth knew the pointlessness of it, and just wanted to recite. Dilworth. Otago. Auckland.

a) Still so jarring to go from the Nine Houses to suddenly reading names like Otago and Auckland. I've been there! I've seen those places! Jod isn't Just Some Guy, he's a Kiwi! b) Looked up Dilworth, it's a private boys boarding school in Auckland. What a snot.

He said: We just wanted to save you. You were so sick.

'You'? I know he's talking to Harrow here (in a dream), but if Alecto is the Earth, that works.

He said, It was me and A- and M- at the start. It wasn’t that they didn’t have the money for a bigger team; we were simply the only ones capable of what they were asking. M- for medical, A- because he was the glycerol-6 genius. He could’ve gone anywhere but he stuck with me... and thank God for that, because he handled all the shareholders. I was there for everything, but those meetings were like dying. I’ll never love meetings. C- was brought on by the oversight execs for contracts, you know, checks and balances, but look where that ended up, she was on our side before the first year was over...

Augustine and Mercy, I assume. C might be Cristabel or might be Cassiopeia.

The Mark-R cryo cans had room for eleven billion people, easy. We’d got the procedure down to five hours per person with a trained team of four. Assuming an existing medical degree, that training could take as little as weeks, manpower wasn’t an issue if we started now. Sure, the maternity stuff wasn’t totally ironed out, but we were nearly there, and the packing was perfect. Of course they bitched about the timeline, and they bitched about the money, but they were always going to bitch about the money. Our rule was, nobody knowingly left behind.

And then they got left behind.

IAF were involved, Pan-Euro Astronautics gave it their blessing, it was all so benign. We even lent them G- at the time because they wanted to talk about coating. M- said that she didn’t like it, she smelled a rat, and you know what I said? You know what I told her? I said, Don't let it get to you and I said, Don't get paranoid! I fucking looked her in the eye and said, This is the way we’re getting out, and you know that the moment half a dozen trillionaires realise it, they’re going where the oxygen is. That’s what I always told her. They’re going where the oxygen is. Wealthy men head for the exit.

He said: When they called me up and said the cryo project was over she looked at me and she just said, There they go, John.

a) G is Gideon, I assume. b) If BoE is descended from the people that left instead of sticking with the cyro project, yeah, no wonder he's bitter.

In the dream, she was sat next to a bundle of meat he’d cut, thighs mostly, for when they felt hungry, which happened rarely and always simultaneously. When it did happen they would be side by side, eating until their stomachs were sore. They would drink from the sea like dogs.

Oh I hate the sound of that.

He said after a pause: You know the worst part? She cried. She and A- both cried. In each other’s arms, like babies. They were so fucking scared. And I was right there, and I couldn’t do piss.

Don't blame them tbh

He was quiet for a long time. The sea ate at the sand. The waves glowed a little even though there was no sunshine, only thick yellow cloud.

She prompted: So what did you do?

He said: A damned thing, didn’t I.

She said: When is the part where you hurt me?

He said: Soon. It’s coming up.

She said: I still love you.

And in the dream he rubbed his temple with his thumb and said: “You always say that, Harrowhark."

Oh yeah these sections are going to be interesting.

Day One

REGARDING NONA—HOT SAUCE IS WATCHFUL—THE CITY HAS A BAD DAY—NONA GETS A BEDTIME STORY—FIVE DAYS UNTIL THE TOMB OPENS.

Here we go!!

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There's a little picture at the top - a cave with a rock in front, skull above it, two chains crossing it. I bet that'll change with each day.

LATE IN THE YEAR of nobody she really thought about that much in particular

Hehe.

“The painted face is on top of me. I’m in the safe water—I’m lying down, I think. Something’s pushing at me. The water goes over my head and it’s in my mouth. It goes up my nose.”

“Does it hurt?”

“No.”

“How do you feel?”

“I like it. I like the water, I like her hands.”

“Her hands?”

“They’re the things around me—maybe they’re my hands.”

The confusion here definitely leads a reader to think this is the pool scene. Is she Gideon or Harrow? Both? Neither?

She wrestled out of her nightshirt with her arms and stretched on her trousers using her ankles, in the move that Camilla called worm with problems.

<3

It was incredibly important that she not get upset like that again. She had only ever had two tantrums in her life, but it would be humiliating to have a third.

Humiliating or dangerous? I'm going to say that she will probably have a third by the end of the book.

She hedged cunningly. “At least please can you write down, I love you, Palamedes, please, from me? At least write, I love you, Palamedes, from Nona.”

This Camilla Hect did unblushingly, though Nona had to take it on trust. When she squatted down on her haunches, following the strokes the pencil made, she could not make out a single word. She could not even make out a letter, not of any alphabet she’d ever been shown, which interested everyone except herself. But you could always trust Cam. When the pencil stopped and the message was obviously discharged Nona leant into her and said, “Thanks. I love you too, Camilla,” and: “Do you know who I am yet?”

“Someone who’s late for breakfast,” said Camilla.

But as Nona straightened, she turned and smiled her rare brief smile, the one like the sun catching the glitter of a car on the motorway. Cam smiled so seldom now that Nona immediately felt it was going to be a good day.

She loves so much ;_; I love this illiterate amnesiac mystery so much <3

“Same as normal,” said Nona, reluctantly taking another bowl. “I wish I could dream something different for once. Do you dream, Pyrrha?”

“Sure. Just last night I dreamed I had to give a briefing, but I wasn’t wearing pants and my backside was hanging out,” said Pyrrha, hacking the shocking orange curds into clumps with the edge of the spatula. During a pause in Nona’s gurgles of mirth, she added solemnly, “It was no fun, my child. I knew I’d be okay so long as I was hiding behind the podium, but I didn’t know what I’d do once I had to sit down again. Die, I guess.”

“Are you being serious or joking with me?” Nona demanded, once this fresh pleasure had subsided.

“Deadly serious. But go put another mark under ass joke anyway.”

I also love Pyrrha.

“Can I get one big braid and two little braids coming off it at the sides?”

“Sure, if we���ve got time.”

“They don’t come loose and the plain plaits do.” Nona added in the spirit of truth: “And I can’t help chewing the ends with plaits. I want to steer clear of Temptation.”

She's adorable. Also, pain. Pain ;_;

“Don’t start the secondhand smoke argument again,” said Nona in alarm, but then, figuring she’d been harsh: “Anyway, they’re bad for you and I love you, Pyrrha.”

“Prove it,” said Pyrrha, which meant she had to eat the eggs.

It's been how many pages? And she's already said she loves everyone she lives with ;_;

Cam’s was dark brown and bobbed off sharply at the chin and it felt nice against your cheek, and whenever Pyrrha didn’t shave her head quick enough she got a little flat cap of dark terracotta, the colour of wet red earth at the building site. Most of Pyrrha was the colours of the building site: deep dried-out browns, dusty hunks of clay, rusted metal. She was raw and ropy and square-shouldered, and Camilla was long and shadowy and lean. Nona thought they were both exquisite.

We love a body positivity queen.

The easiest way of telling who was who was in the eyes. Palamedes had soft cool eyes of brownish grey, like bare ground in the cold mornings when Nona had been little, and Camilla had the clearest of clear grey eyes like storybook ice, not like normal cloudy ice at all.

Perfect Lyctorhood! Albeit in a shared body, so not Perfect Lyctorhood at all. Pyrrha also has G1deon's eyes now, and Nona... appears to be Harrow's body, Gideon's eyes, but who knows what's going on there yet?

Pyrrha continued, “Anyway, you’re paying for the meat roulette. The stuff the butcher’s keeping back is only ten percent upholstery, the rest is livers and gristle.”

Nona wanted to know. “What part’s the upholstery?”

“A very nutritious part,” said Palamedes.

“The part that hung out in my dream,” said Pyrrha.

That set Nona off again, so she had to get up from her eggs to make another mark on her tally sheet. Palamedes stared, distracted, and said: “Dear God, two in a day? Why are we even remotely in doubt? Forget the meat, I was being facetious. We wouldn’t have upholstery money even if I wrote hardcore pornography for a living.”

Pyrrha said, “Wish you’d try. These nicotine patches are killing me.”

“If that’s meant to make me feel guilty, I feel nothing, thank you,” said Palamedes. “Cam’s body is a temple. She’s the one who’s banned me from a life peddling poor-quality erotica. Says she doesn’t want our last gift to the universe to be tales of people mashing birthday cakes beneath their bottoms."

a) It's okay I giggled too. b) There is absolutely at least one AU of Pal as an erotica writer, right.

There is so much politics here and I've read this part so many times and I still don't know precisely what's going on other than it sucks for people right now :(

"BoE are making that choice, Palamedes... We Suffer’s lost. The Wakers and Ctesiphon Wing can’t protect us. Merv Wing’s got the glue, which is a way out. The Hopers call the shots now... and I’ve met leaders like Unjust Hope before. They’re the guys who come to the fore when people want leaders who don’t count the costs. We’re heading for a purge, Sextus. This is the Blood of Eden who don’t give a fuck."

Okay, so the Wings mentioned in the BoE memo were Tartessus, Merv, and Suva. Merv's mentioned, I guess the Wakers follow in Wake's memories. Unjust Hope seems to be a potential antagonist? We Suffer doesn't seem to be doing great right now. Wonder if Corona and Judith are still with her?

Nona loved the clean, bright smell of shaving soap, and to see Pyrrha swiftly and expertly scrape the dark russet-brown stubble off her cheeks and from around her mouth, and the little wet red marks that appeared. When she reached over to touch one freshly smooth cheek, the marks were already wrinkling up and disappearing.

lmao sweetheart if she's cutting the shit out of her cheeks, that's not 'expertly' shaving XD

Big blue thing that's periscoping? Oh dear, that's number seven, isn't it.

Pyrrha turned her eyes up to the ceiling in mute appeal. Her exhalation rasped loudly against the vent in her mask. “I used to run the whole Bureau,” she said, and she didn’t sound like she was addressing either of them. “Now I’m up against wannabe heroes and hairy dogs. This is the punishment she would’ve wanted for me. God, she must be pissing herself laughing... Let’s go, kids. Like hell am I walking in this heat.”

I'm assuming 'she' is Wake. Oh Pyrrha XD

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Image at the top - the Tomb again.

When she looked in the mirror she had skin the colour of the egg carton, and eyes the colour of the egg mixture, and hair the colour of the burnt-out bottom of the pan. More to the point, Nona thought she was gorgeous. She had a thin, complicated face, and a mouth too easily unhappy and too easily discontented; but she had nice white teeth in a smile that looked sad no matter how happy she was, and arched black brows like she always wanted to ask someone a question. Nona talked to herself in the mirror even now. When she had been earlier born, and less self-conscious, sometimes she would rest her face against the mirror’s face, and try to reach her reflection. Camilla had caught her kissing it once, and had written about six pages of notes on that, which was humiliating.

a) I love her colour descriptions. b) Yeah I feel that's definitely Harrowbod, especially given that Pyrrha was the last one with her.

“You see,” Palamedes had said to her, “the eyes are a dead giveaway. When you give yourself to someone else, their soul shows in yours by the eye colour; that’s why you’ll never see me looking out of Camilla’s face with my own eyes again.”

“So someone’s inside me, then? I mean - I’m that somebody?” She always stumbled over this.

Hashtag Just Lyctor Things.

“Maybe yes, Nona, maybe no. Eyes can also show that a soul is in someone else’s body temporarily. Your amber eyes could mean that you’re like Camilla and me, or it could mean something else. But you seem to have had... a big shock.”

“Maybe I’ve just lost my memory,” said Nona dubiously.

“It happens,” agreed Palamedes - not convinced.

It's complicated, for sure!

“They wanted to see me naked,” said Nona. “It was a sex thing.”

Camilla had made a sound, and then pretended it was a cough, and drank a whole glass of water. After the glass of water, she said, “How did you know?”

“That’s just the way people look when they want to see you naked and it’s a sex thing,” said Nona. “I don’t really mind.”

After a moment, Camilla had told her it wasn’t a great idea for Nona to let people she didn’t know see her naked, and not to encourage sex things. She said sex things were right out. She said there were enough problems in the world. Camilla said it was bad enough that she had used to help Nona in the bath. Camilla had also written down a lot more notes.

Camilla is having such a time.

It seemed like there was nothing Camilla couldn’t do after a few tries - the laundry, or starting up a truck, or opening a door when she didn’t have the keys, or telling the drunk man at the bottom of their hall that none of them liked it when he hit his partner, in a mystical way that caused the man to move out of the apartment forever.

Cam. Cam did you murder the abusive guy. Honestly, fair.

In the beginning she hadn’t been able to do much for herself at all, but over time she had remembered how to button her shirts, and tie up her laces, and soap herself in the bath, and pour water into a glass so that her hand didn’t tremble and the water didn’t slop out. It shamed her, remembering how little she could do at the start. She had been so frustrated, in those slow early days. But now she could do nearly everything. She knew important facts like what was expected and what was unexpected at different parts of the day, and that people’s ears weren’t so interesting that she had to put her fingers inside them. In those early days Palamedes and Camilla and Pyrrha had often looked at her in a sort of stupefied shock; now they were still stupefied but they were not so shocked, and often she made them laugh.

The two main theories for Nona is that she's either an amnesiac Alecto or the combined souls of the 200 kids, I think? Both of those would work, then - a period of amnesia and needing to relearn everything, especially given that a lot of the kids were actual babies. The interest in sex could be from the fact that a lot were also teenagers. I have a thing talking about the amalgam theory here.

And now they touched her, sometimes not even by explicit request. Pyrrha would roughly hug her in one big suddenness, or sweep Nona up in her hard, wiry arms before setting her down on the sofa; Palamedes would pull the blankets up over her if she was getting into bed and tuck them in softly at the corners. If she slipped her hand into Camilla’s, when they were walking down the street, Camilla would hold it. Nona didn’t understand how the others could walk around and go through their lives only touching each other as much as was necessary. When Nona asked, Camilla said that this was because they needed to get the washing-up done.

Honestly no matter who this is, they were probably touchstarved as hell so. That is nice <3

Nona understood everybody, and could speak back to them so that they understood her, and nobody ever said she had an accent. This confounded Palamedes. When she first said that she could speak back by watching them talk and making her lips look like theirs, it confounded him so much more that it gave Camilla a headache.

Yeah, this bit I still can't explain XD;;

This had been the case for Nona’s entire life, which would be six months next week, and Pyrrha had said as a treat she would take everyone for a birthday trip to the beach (if nobody was setting up a mortar on it).

Nona was so grateful to have had a whole six months of this. It was greedy to expect much longer.

;_;

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Ooh, new icon! This is a tree with a fruit hanging off it. That might represent Blood of Eden?

When the nice lady teacher turned up one evening and told Pyrrha and Camilla how wonderful the school was and how it had almost twenty other children and reading and writing at all the levels and an hour of the sciences every day and games, and talked about how it was even more important for children in the refuges to have a routine so why didn’t they want that for Nona, Cam had to tell the nice lady that Nona was nearly nineteen.

The nice lady was totally foxed.

“But she’s such a dot.”

Pyrrha explained without missing a beat that what with everything Nona had gone through she had been ill and still didn’t eat very much, which was why she was so knobbly and undergrown. The nice lady said that yes, many of the children had problems like that, but it was still hard to imagine Nona was anywhere over fourteen, wasn’t it?

a) Harrow turned eighteen in chapter 24, which was four months before the Emperor's death. If Nona has been around for six months, then yeah, her body would be two months off nineteen. b) Heehee she tiny.

After Pyrrha saw the nice lady teacher out, Camilla, who had been pacing around the kitchen, looked up and said coolly -

“What was that?”

“Getting us out of hot water, my naive beauty,” said Pyrrha, collapsing into a chair with an appalling creak. “She paid you and junior the compliment of thinking you were working girls, and that I was your pimp. God knows I’d have had better luck pimping out Augustine and Alfred.”

Nona wanted to know: “What’s pimp?”

God that's probably... not uncommon. Made ickier by the fact that the teacher absolutely assumes Nona is either very underaged or has an intellectual disability. I can definitely understand why she'd want to get Nona out of that environment, if it was true!

In fact, she only loved the Hour of Science because that was when she was allowed to look after Noodle, the science teacher’s dog, who was a dirty white creature with six legs and a gentle disposition.

I love you Noodle.

It was just as hard to make Nona learn any facts as it was to make her learn the sword or the bones - harder, probably; as she explained all the time, as sweetly as she could, her brain simply wasn’t interested in them. It was as though someone had probably told her everything before and she had already forgotten it.

That's leaning more towards Alecto, I think, but could also be teenagers from the 200.

Hot Sauce was the oldest child, at fourteen, but would have been the authority no matter her age. She was queenly for her years and spoke very seldom. She had burns on most of her body and had got to hold a gun in a war. If you were new to the school her group always eventually found you and said, “You have to come and see Hot Sauce,” and took you to Hot Sauce, and Hot Sauce would lift up her shirt and hoick up her shorts and show you the burns. This was intended to instil a sense of reverence in the fresh meat, not disgust, but the group was just as proud if the new child broke down crying or didn’t want to look.

Hot Sauce herself was blank and unmoving in her moods and did not seem to have many strong passions, except that she was violently disdainful of every subject but the Hour of Science.

Hot Sauce seems... deeply traumatised.

Trying to work out the name meanings! She hears names like Corona as Crown, so she's probably translating all of them? 12-year-old Honesty, the lieutenant, could be Atsushi (Japanese), Liêm (Vietnamese), Nazih (Arabic), or Tam (Hebrew). Can't find any names that mean 'Beautiful Ruby' in combination. 'Born in the Morning' could be Akinyi (Luo). ...I really hope Hot Sauce's real name is Sriracha XD Kevin is. Kevin. And The Angel... could be a lot of things.

“Is his name really and truly Honesty?” Palamedes wanted to know. Nona struggled.

“That’s how I hear it. Anyway, he shouldn’t be called Honesty at all, he tells huge lies and he’s trying to teach me too."

Nona longed to lie, but didn’t know how to stop her body from showing the truth; at first, she had triumphantly caught every one of Honesty’s lies, until he took her behind the bike sheds and said he would give her a cigarette a week if she stopped. He was lying, but she could see how much it meant to him, so she stopped. And when she did get a cigarette, she slipped it to Pyrrha.

The sheer inability to lie is fascinating!

But she never quite got over that little shake, that tight vibration of the stomach when the Convoy was near, how it excited her somehow. It was like she could feel something wonderful in it.

What's the Convoy carrying? Hmm.

And Honesty, who had been very nice since the cigarette arrangement, said: “When we leave school, we’re going to kill zombies, we’re gonna kill necromancers.”

lbr necromancers sound fucking terrifying to most people!

Born in the Morning protested, “I did throw a rock and it did die,” and Nona said, “What, the rock?” at which the others paused in order to jeer at her. Then Beautiful Ruby explained that the rock had been thrown at one of the cages and the necromancer had been almost all the way on fire, and the question of whether or not the rock had even hit the necromancer or the bars was still a live one, but the rock could have helped. A rock hits you in the head you’re going to die, aren’t you.

While the others litigated whether or not the rock still counted if the necromancer was almost all the way on fire, Hot Sauce, sitting with her legs dangling over the side of the broken floor, had gone very still. Nona always noticed when Hot Sauce was still, because her stillness was peculiar: it wasn’t the stillness others got when they were thinking about things in class, markers paused as their brains furiously combed over some answer. It was the stillness of someone rejecting thinking.

PTSD. Poor kiddo.

“I watched Nona eat a pebble,” Kevin volunteered, bending one of his doll’s legs into position. Then: “And a marker top.”

“Don’t squeal, Kevin,” said Nona, offended and on her dignity; she had just learnt squeal and therefore used it constantly. “And Honesty, don’t call me a dumbass. At home they said if you called me a dumbass again I should tell you that they know what you look like and they’ll beat you up.”

“Okay. I don’t want to piss off your folks, you live with a pimp,” said Honesty.

By that point Nona knew what pimp was, and was so annoyed she knew she was on the road to a tantrum.

Kids are mean :-\

“The necromancers will come back. They may already be here.”

Everyone subsided into reverent silence at Hot Sauce’s proclamation, even Nona, who took the opportunity to do five breaths in and out like Camilla had shown her.

Eventually Beautiful Ruby broke the silence and said, “What about Varun, Hot Sauce? What about Varun the Eater?”

“It’s here for them,” said Hot Sauce.

They looked up through the big crack at the blued sky respectfully.

Varun the Eater = number seven, I assume?

Nona whispered, “Join what, Hot Sauce?”

Hot Sauce didn’t answer her. When she did say anything, she asked a question instead, which was irritatingly like Pyrrha. “You like it here?”

“I love it here,” said Nona sincerely. “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”

“You’re sweet,” said Hot Sauce.

She is ;_;

Eventually, when it got dark enough, all their families would come looking for them - Cam always came horribly early - except for Hot Sauce, who had nobody to come looking for her, and Honesty, whom nobody ever remembered about. But even with this flaw in paradise, Nona could do nothing but hug her knees to her chest and feel fantastically, wonderfully lucky, luckier than anyone else who had ever had the pleasure of being born.

Oh that's. Oh that's sad ;_;

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A familiar image, here! The Seventh House skull.

Once they were out of the park and out of the crowd, Pyrrha kissed the top of Nona’s head and said, “Be good,” like she always said.

Pyrrha is so soft <3 I’m glad she gets to be a Mum.

“I’m worried about her, living alone. I’ve tried to tell her about the sheltered accommodation, but she’s too independent...”

She's a traumatised fourteen-year-old, I can understand why the teacher is worried :( The teacher feels like a good sort, like she wants to make things as right and as secure as possible for the kids in the settlement.

Once Hot Sauce said that she would do something, all you could do was wait for Hot Sauce to do it. She would not invite you to help, or ask your opinion. Hot Sauce’s failure to ask anyone’s opinion on anything she did was probably the reason she was the unquestioned authority in the school, over and above the teachers. Nona had told Palamedes about it and Palamedes had said, Lead researcher material, certainly.

*snort*

It was such a relief to be pretty, and to have the braids that Pyrrha had given her look so dark and juicy and glossy. Cam said her hair was drying up and she had white spots on her nails, but Nona couldn’t see it.

That sounds like malnourishment bbygirl. And I wonder if there is a reason for her vanity?

The Angel looked less like an angel than ever that morning. Nona always liked the science teacher’s face, which was sort of snub-nosed and thin and crinkly around the eyes, but that morning she was frankly untidy. She was a gallant little person of fortyish who gave the impression that she had learnt a lot early in life and discovered late that it was no real good to her or anyone else. This lent her teaching a weightless, secretive feeling, like it was really all for fun at the end of the day. She liked to wear button-up shirts, often with suspenders to hold up the trousers, and a dust jacket to keep her clothes neat walking through the city; but that morning her shirt looked like yesterday’s shirt and her face looked like yesterday’s face - careworn, with her freckles fading into the background of her skin. All of the Angel was tinted in soft greys and browns, but she had delicious reddish freckles scattered on her cheeks and nose which added life and vivacity to her face; not so much today. As Nona led the tiny by hand into the classroom, Hot Sauce had paused on integers to say, “Good morning, sir,” which caused a reverberation around the classroom of equally respectful Good morning sir - Good mornings; but the Angel’s answering “Good morning, everyone” was distinctly pallid.

Not a description that rings a bell, but that doesn't mean much.

Sometimes Pyrrha went out late at night and came back smelling like alcohol, and Camilla would say nothing at all, but if Palamedes was there he would say, “Really, Pyrrha?” and Pyrrha would just say, “Really, Sextus,” and then the next morning she would be walking in that same rumpled, weary fashion - though Nona thought she exaggerated it for effect. Nothing Pyrrha drank could really hurt her. She had even drunk the contents of the bleach bottle once. When Palamedes had asked why, Pyrrha said she had realised she wasn’t used to being tortured while immortal and wanted to get a head start, and Palamedes said bullshit because he thought Nona had not been listening.

Oh Pyrrha ;_;

Beautiful Ruby, perhaps buoyed by being that day’s fruit recipient, held out cupped hands for the foodstuff in question and said: “Hey, you don’t look so well lately, Nona. You look kind of sick.”

Everyone turned to look at Nona, who writhed beneath this judgement, and they agreed that she had not looked well for, like, weeks. “I do,” she said indignantly. “Look at my braids—I look wonderful,” which thankfully replaced their worry with a group effort to squash her vanity. They often took it in turns to squash Nona’s vanity, which never worked. Beautiful Ruby, the best-looking out of them all and therefore the authority on looks, had once said, “You got the face of a rat and the body of a dead person,” but Nona knew she was beautiful and was complacent about it. Even if they all assured her that she was nothing to write home about, she could say, “Who cares? I can’t write,” and then they had to switch tack and squash her for being proud that she was so goddamned stupid. Nona quite liked this really; it made her feel like she belonged. They were all proud of her stupidity, in the same way that they were proud of Honesty’s rampant crimes and of Hot Sauce being the most important person in the universe.

Kids are mean :-\

When the class teacher clapped her hands together and announced the Hour of Science, which meant Nona was about to get the Hour of Noodle, Hot Sauce dawdled behind. She looked Nona dead in the eye, the ripples of her burns making pretty ridges up and down one cheek, and she said - “You’re right.”

“That I’m beautiful?” said Nona.

“No. About the Angel. The Angel’s worried.”

“Okay,” said Nona.

“Stay on the grounds today,” said Hot Sauce. “When you take Noodle.”

Yeah, something going on for sure.

5

Chapter image - Ninth House skull.

The pencil had been put down. The eyes had shadowed into earthen greys. “Crown,” said Palamedes pleasantly, “isn’t our friend right now. Okay, take that smallest piece there and try rolling it in your fingers. Feel all the little indentations in that scooped-out portion.”

“I love Crown,” Nona protested, giving the smallest bone a desultory grope.

“Why do you love Crown?”

Nona thought about it.

“She has lovely hair. And when she hugs you she smells like cinnamon, and her breasts feel nice, and she’s so big and pretty.”

Palamedes looked at her, and then he took the notepad out of Camilla’s capacious pockets. Nona despaired: there was always a tick somewhere if she mentioned breasts. “That’s not exactly love as I would classify it,” he said. “That’s simply a list of things most red-blooded human beings like about Crown. How do you know what cinnamon smells like, Nona?”

Hey, I wonder if the list is a fake-out? We see Nona referring to 'Crown' and assume that's Corona, and we see the BoE name 'Crown Him With Many Crowns', and assume that's Corona too, but is it actually? (Or am I just overthinking? XD)

“Do we still like the Captain?” (Even Nona couldn’t quite love the Captain.)

“I pity the Captain to the very depths of my heart, and never did like her much,” said Palamedes. “I pity Crown not at all, and like her terribly; that’s the problem. Why don’t you try to make that end smooth?”

Poor Judith :-\

“Why is it that the blue light in the sky hurts - other people,” said Nona, “but not you and Cam?”

She had asked this upward of a dozen times, especially lately, but Palamedes always answered unhesitatingly no matter how many times he had been asked before. “She’s got the wrong kind of body. She and I can cheat... for now... draw on me, not her, for the unusual kinds of things that I do, with the downside being that our time is very limited. If I was in her body for too long, I’d hurt her and the blue light would start to hurt me. But in summary, nothing will hurt Camilla so long as I stick to the time limit. Make sense?”

So Cam-Pal are immune to Varun because Cam's body isn't a necromancer's body, and Pal isn't in control long enough for it to pick up on his soul.

“I think so,” said Nona, and deciding: “Yes. That’s a relief... I wouldn’t want anything to hurt Camilla. I love Camilla.”

“And why do you love Camilla?”

Nona struggled with this a little. It was like asking why you breathed air.

“I love the way she moves,” she said pitifully.

He said, “Me too.”

“Do you miss seeing her?”

“Dreadfully. But the recordings are nice.”

Babies :(

“Is the blue light going to start hurting Pyrrha, Palamedes?”

Another question she had begun asking again. Camilla said it was anxiety. Palamedes said gently, “No. She’s immune to the blue light and it’s not going to start hurting her. She’s got the right type of body to be hurt by it, but the wrong soul. She was made to be immune to the blue light.”

Other way around for Pyrrha. She does have a necromancer's body, but a non-necro's soul permanently in the driver's seat. She's fine.

“So do I have the wrong kind of body, or the wrong kind of soul?”

This was the only question Palamedes ever hesitated on.

“We don’t know. We were worried that the blue light was hurting you when you first came to us, but you’re fine. This could mean that you’re like Pyrrha, and that you’re immune because your soul is protecting your body. But... there are a lot of factors, Nona.”

“Is that why - Blood of Eden don’t want me?”

“Oh, they want you,” said Palamedes. “They want you very badly. Look - are you scared by the conversation Pyrrha and I had this morning?”

“Not really. I mean, I know things are getting worse,” she said, wanting to sound worldly. “I know I’m not fixed and we only have a few more months to fix me, and who knows what’s going to happen in the meanwhile. But I’m not scared of We Suffer. I like We Suffer.”

Palamedes quirked Cam’s eyebrows in the way that meant he was amused.

“Just because the commander gave you a sweet the once?”

Lots of questions still there. Hopefully Varun leaves her be!

“In another time and in different circumstances I would also have liked We Suffer,” said Palamedes. “Hell, I might have liked all of Ctesiphon Wing. Right now though... Tidy up the bones, let’s stop for today.”

Ooh okay, We Suffer is Ctesiphon Wing. So we have: We Suffer, associated with Ctesiphon Wing, the Wakers (presumably associated with the memory of Wake), Merv has 'the glue', and Unjust Hope leads the Hopers. And mentioned in the extra-stuff memo but not in the book so far, along with Merv, are Tartessus and Suva.

“Sometimes,” she found herself saying, quite meditatively for her, “I don’t like it when you do - the necromancy word -” (“You just said it,” said Palamedes) “- but it feels nice at the same time. It’s mixed up. It’s like when you do that, it makes me sad - not sad that you did it, but sad that you can do it. Did I say something wrong?” Nona added in a rush, seeing Palamedes’s face.

“No,” he said, gently, after a moment. “I don’t understand yet, that’s all. Not even a little. I have so much to learn in the ways of not understanding.”

I get the feeling he doesn't like not understanding. Also, ow.

“Time’s up,” he said. “Give this to Cam for me, will you?”

And he spread Nona’s fingers like he always did, and he quietly kissed the second right-hand knuckle.

Nona always paid so much more attention to the lessons of the hand and the mouth than she did to the lessons of the bone and the sword: they were significantly more interesting. With the bone and the sword she faintly got the impression that she was being read a boring bit out of the newspaper, or one of the two-for-one books Pyrrha sometimes bought from the back of somebody’s truck. Whenever she was read to from one of these she was asleep in minutes. But she was good at this, whatever this was; she didn’t even know; nobody would give her the words, and she didn’t have them herself. The first time Palamedes had asked her to do it, quite a long time ago, and the first time she had raised Camilla’s hand to her mouth and done it—pretty much exactly as Palamedes had, making the same shape as his mouth had done like she did when speaking languages, and touching the same way as his hands had touched—Camilla had looked at her, and then she had gone away to sit in the bath by herself in the dark for almost an hour, even though there hadn’t been any water in the bath.

Now when Nona waited for Camilla’s eyes to clear, and she lifted up Camilla’s hand to press her mouth to it, all Camilla said was, “Thanks.” And she almost didn’t flinch.

;_; Here, have an art.

6

Chapter image - Seventh House skull.

Down at the local dairy

They were mentioned before but I do love the mention of the dairies. Really grounds this as being from a Kiwi writer XD

“Is there anything you’re not telling me?”

It was the first time ever that Camilla had asked that question. It was such an abundantly awful question to ask. The silence drew out between them in a way that made the tips of Nona’s ears feel hot. It felt as though it lasted a very long time.

Then - “Yes,” said Nona, faintly.

Poor kiddo.

“You haven’t wanted stories in a while. Said you were too sophisticated.”

“That was because Beautiful Ruby made fun of me when I said what I did to get to sleep,” said Nona.

That had been early on. It hadn’t even been that Beautiful Ruby hurt her feelings; it was that the others had shushed him immediately and Honesty had said in a much louder voice than was necessary, “Shut up, lad, Nona can do kiddie things if she wants to,” which was a much better way of letting her know she was being an appalling baby. And Hot Sauce had looked at her in a way she really hadn’t liked.

Yeah, I feel the kids are definitely working under the assumption that she has an intellectual disability or trauma-related repression or something.

Camilla’s curt, sweet, low voice took on the tones of recital: “We met you when the Warden saved you, after you were hurt.”

Nona supplied, “And it was the first time he showed he could do things like that because he didn’t have a body, and you were amazed,” and Camilla said, “Who’s telling this, me or you?”

Nona subsided. Camilla said, “It was the first time. He and I... were trying to talk. He was stuck, not having a body that talked. At the time we knew you were in trouble. You’d disappeared. We’d been trying to get you. We found you and Pyrrha. You were hurt. Pyrrha helped us escape from an attack. We lost people. Ships. Something very important. But we got you away, and we wanted to keep you. Other people said no. But you didn’t know what was happening. You weren’t a threat to anyone. Neither was Pyrrha. But not many people believed me, or the Warden. Many people said you were too dangerous.”

So, after escaping the River - Pyrrha emerges with Harrow's unconscious body straight into the midst of chaos. Pal, at this point, is probably still just in his hand bones, but is still able to use necromancy enough to heal Harrow's body. What they lost, 'something very important' - Gideon's body, maybe?

Nona said, “And everyone paid attention to We Suffer, who said, ‘I trust them. They will not betray us.’”

“Yes... back then We Suffer trusted us. We Suffer even let Pyrrha live. Pyrrha talked fast. Then I found a way for the Warden to come back. That was a relief. He wanted to evoke the break clause... which means, he wanted his family away from the Houses. You weren’t awake yet. You only woke up for very short periods and you couldn’t speak properly. We looked after you. The Warden convinced the Oversight Body, convinced the Sixth House to come with us. We showed them the secret of the installation. We helped them find a stele that would anchor such a big thanergy transition... which means, we helped them move. Then the Warden picked sixteen people to talk with Blood of Eden. To discuss the future. You were waking up. You met me for the first time.”

Nona said, “What did you think of me?” knowing the answer.

“I thought I didn’t know you at all. You were new.”

We Suffer steps up. She already knows Cam, Corona, and Judith, so once Pyrrha talks fast, We Suffer might let Cam take custody of them, maybe? Cam and Pal work out Perfect Lyctorhood, as much as they can, and try to evacuate the Sixth. Nona starts to wake up.

“And we lived here and I got better and Pyrrha went out to work and you taught me how to speak. And then things went wrong.”

That had been a hideous time.

Camilla said, “Yes. Then things went wrong. The light appeared. We found out Blood of Eden had lied to us... or at least, didn’t have the power to look after us anymore. That’s it.”

Got to the settlement. Varun shows up, things with BoE go south, possibly with the Sixth.

“I don’t understand why We Suffer hates Pyrrha.”

“Pyrrha’s best friend killed We Suffer’s boss.”

We Suffer might have had some sort of... intense relationship with Wake?

“Why did you want to take your families away from the other place?”

“We didn’t feel we could be there anymore... not until we really understood what we were doing, morally. The Warden is our leader, and our families listened to what he had to say. We voted on it... made promises we couldn’t keep.”

Camilla’s voice was bitter. Nona was sorry.

BoE broke promises to do with protecting the Sixth, probably. Didn't help keep them safe.

She heard Camilla breathing and felt nearly completely at peace, happy despite everything. Sometimes it was hard not to be happy; sometimes it was so difficult when everyone else had that hard, hurt look at the corners of their eyes that meant they didn’t quite know how to carry on: the men at the dairy, Pyrrha, Palamedes, the nice lady teacher at school, Kevin.

;_;

When she was 90 percent asleep, she heard the door very quietly unlatch and close. Then she counted, and at the end of five counts there was Pyrrha at the door saying, “Ah, my darling hearts, my sleeping babes, Daddy’s own treasures,” and Camilla saying without opening her eyes, “Go to bed. I just got her to sleep.”

Nona fell asleep and was happy.

<3 An art!

John 5:20

On to the new stuff!!

IN THE DREAM, she said, “But that’s it? They shut you down - it was over?”

[...]

He sat down on a patch of brown grass and laughed a little, and said, “Beloved, it wouldn’t be over - it wouldn’t begin - for a year.”

The 'Beloved' is pretty interesting.

A- was panicking because our kill-fee money was suddenly worth nothing and what if the banks crashed and that nothing went too? C- was panicking because with the project over she was getting recalled to England and didn’t want to go, she’d got N- and didn’t want to leave her, refused to admit they were dating even though we all knew. M- was panicking because we had a health board and someone from Energy coming to talk about shutdown and what the hell were we going to do with all the dead bodies we’d collected to test on?

Oh yeah, C- is definitely Cassiopeia, because her cavalier was Nigella. Also I kind of love that Augustine is panicking over the economy, Cass is panicking over being separated from her girlfriend, and meanwhile Mercy is just, "SHIT, GOT TOO MANY CORPSES."

I didn’t have to worry about the public or the media—we had a pet cop, P-. She’d made detective by that point; was going on to big things in the MoD. Knew G- from way back, and G- and I were both hometown boys, so P- kept the heat down for us. We got a lot of attention at first because they wanted someone to blame, wanted to rubberneck, wanted to write up think pieces about it. Wanted to know who we were. M- and A- could’ve walked into new jobs in a heartbeat but I was irradiated, I’d never work in the industry again. I sure as hell wouldn’t be allowed to work on anything else to do with you. I told M- and A- to go and that I’d shut up shop, but they wouldn’t leave me. None of them left me.

Pyrrha, you were a cop? :( Gideon was also from Auckland. "I sure as hell wouldn't be allowed to work on anything else to do with you." You = Alecto = Earth = climate science?

The only way out was to dump the population on an exoplanet. The cryo cans would have let us get everyone to Tau Ceti in my lifetime.

Tau Ceti is the same class as the sun, and only twelve light years away. You could reasonably get there even with (still blindingly fast) sublight transport.

He said: I wasn’t panicking with the rest of them. I know I should’ve been. But I wasn’t. I kept working on the plan even without backing. Kept refining the canister mixture. It was like I knew more every day about how it should work, what the little niggles were. I was having six breakthroughs a day. They’d all expected me to go nuts. A- kept saying, Are you sleeping, are you okay, are you taking any Class As, you know you can tell me. But I wasn’t taking anything. I was sleeping like a baby. I was looking at those guys on the slab and something in me was like, I know you, I know this.

He said, Told M- that. Huge mistake. She was like, Oh my God, you’re drinking, aren’t you. You’re on amphetamines. You are on coke. You are on amphetamines and coke. I was all, Yeah... Coke Zero. She didn’t laugh. I laughed.

He said, I guess I’ve always thought any pun was automatically funny.

I hate that I find that relatable. Anyway. Emerging necromantic abilities?

I went around to everyone, talking to my favourites - I know it was weird having favourites, but let’s bloody face it, I’d gone weird -

And how XD;;

not even saying goodbye, just saying it’ll be fine, hang on for me, kia kaha, kia māia.

'Be strong, be brave.'

No dice. They shut down our power to the vats one night, one minute after six. We were all there, waiting, when they turned them off.

He fell silent, and she prompted - “What happened, Lord?”

He smiled out over the hillside, over the flat plains and the twisted rubbish, a strange fleeting thing with teeth.

“Most of the bodies got the melt, like we thought they would,” he said. “Damaged beyond repair. Their brains liquefied almost immediately. But, Harrow... all the ones I touched, all the ones I loved... they stayed incorrupti

That's it that's where the chapter ends. He's a necromancer!

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Mely’s 007 Fest 2022 Masterpost

This year was such a lovely Fest experience. ✨ I really enjoyed being a co-captain and our team was absolutely amazing. ❤️ Even though I didn’t get everything done that I wanted to (which just means moving those to next year’s Fest), I had a lot of fun. 😊

Fanfiction

Balloons - Q/Alec Trevelyan - G

Dark Side of the Paw - Q/Eve Moneypenny - G

Fine Morning - James Bond/Vesper Lynd - G

Mayhem is Never Unnecessary - 00Q - G

Pay Up - 00Q - G

Within Reason - 00Q00 - G

For the AO3 Tags prompt table’s prompt ‘Mission Fic’

For Polyamory Day

Trapped - 00Q - G

Based on the following prompt: Q is trying to take a picture of his cats, who have decided to claim Bond's lap as their new territory. Bond is not sure how to respond to the fluffy monsters.

For the Scavenger Hunt #95: It's take your civilian to work day! Collab on a fest creation with a member of Team Civilian!

Postcards - 00Q - G - 7/7

For the following prompts:

Epistolary fic, any character or pairing. Letters, emails, memos, texts--anything in a written mode of communication counts.

"Now that's something you definitely should not try at home." (Auckland)

After this last mission Bond has a new least-favorite country. (Rio)

For all the Cities prompt table’s prompts except for the Free Space prompt.

00Q Tinyfics - G - 10/10

Fluff & humor was written for the following prompt: Why Q doesn't wear suits.

Angst was written for the following prompt: Use this generator to get a random Hozier lyric, then write a fic inspired by/using that lyric. — my lyric was ‘no grave’

Slice of life was written for Angel for the following prompt: A stay-in day cuddling with Q's cats. Would be nice if it's set in winter, where they could get warm and toasty near the fireplace.

Outsider pov was written for Characters of Color Day.

And this completes the AO3 Tags prompt table for me, too.

Louder Than Q - Eve Moneypenny/Bill Tanner - T+

For forger from the following prompt: ok ok so moneytanner move into the flat next door to 00Q. it’s not… we’ll soundproofed. What do they hear?? That’s my prompt

For this prompt: A fic that begins with "I've made a terrible mistake."

Also for this prompt: MoneyTanner. Seriously. Anything where Moneypenny and Tanner are in love.

Beautiful Things - James Bond/Alec Trevelyan - G

For cal from the following prompt: how about: ' "Blowing things up is usually his expertise" "My expertise and your hobby" ' ?

For Agent Day

The Bond Way - G

For NTS from the following prompt: Q, R, M, and Moneypenny in Q branch budget meeting. 👀 How does it come down? What trickery did Q do to get more funding? Did M spotted it, or pretend he didn't notice?

Not Fair - Eve Moneypenny/R - G

For Storm from the following prompt: how about: secret relationship/marriage 😁

For Q Branch Day

Lucky - James Bond/Felix Leiter - G

For Soup from the following prompt: how about “a penny for your thoughts”?

Also for the AO3 Tags prompt table’s prompt ‘everybody lives/nobody dies’.

How to Surprise a Spy - Eve Moneypenny/Alec Trevelyan - G

For Oliver from the following prompt: I’ve got "there was what in the cake?" "how do you surprise a spy" "terrible choice of password"

Rainbow - 00Q - G

For Merc from the following prompt: how about 'summer rain' or... 'rainbow'? or both combined?

Also for this prompt: A fic featuring a conversation in a language other than English. You can do it however you like, whether it is Bond in the field, Q talking to his counterpart at another agency, or characters practicing their foreign language skills, etc.

Fake It (Till You Make It) - Alec Trevelyan/Bill Tanner - T+

For Felix from the following prompt: How about fake relationship with some nice idiots to lovers in the mix?

For the Cities prompt table’s prompt ‘Free Space’ which was Zagreb, Croatia for me.

Also for Scavenger Hunt #92: Pick 2 or more characters. Using this generator, generate a set of dialogue. Use it in your fic or artwork.

My set of dialogue is this:

Tanner, tending to Trevelyan’s wounds: How would you rate your pain?

Trevelyan: Zero stars. Would NOT recommend.

Headcanons

Felix is Ace

For Queering the Characters Day

Q’s Newest Moomin Mug

For Headcanon Day

Sometimes Q Gives Bond Mugs, Too

Q Loves the Taika Series

Q’s Newest Mug

Bond Likes Japan, Too

Some of Bond’s Surprises Are Local

Bond’s Retirement Plan

Scavenger Hunts

#1, #45, #45 x2, #48, #50, #73, #83, #88, #95

Watchparties etc

Our Flag Means Death, 5 episodes

Fic Readalong

London Spy, 1 episode

Casino Royale ‘67

00QAD Fandom Chat Night

Comments

111 comments

Others

Beta work x 3

This for Villain Day

+ other bonuses

Total: 825 points

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What do SSC and RACK mean??

SSC and RACK - as well as some other popular acronyms - describe basic foundational principles for BDSM and kink play.  Let’s take a broad look at some of the more common and established frameworks.

SSC: Safe, Sane, and Consensual

SSC, which stands for safe, sane, and consensual, is largely attributed to David Stein, who coined the phrase in the 1980s for the Gay Male S/M Activists (GMSMA) of New York (Stein, n.d.; “Safe, sane, and consensual”, 2021).

Safe must mean “without serious threats to participants’ health” (“to hurt, not to harm,” as it is sometimes conveyed); sane must indicate “within the limits of reason”; and consensual, of course, must mean “with the consent of all implicated parties.” Practices and activities within these limits are morally permissible; if an activity falls short on any of these three scores, it is morally wrong. (Nielsen, 2010)

SSC was - and still is - a popular term for describing the safeguards required to participate in ethical kink.  However, many criticize its semantic ambiguities and subjectivity; for example, what is safe or sane to one person may not be for another (Nielson, 2010).  Regardless, it still serves as a good starting point as an introduction to some foundational principles of ethical kink and raises awareness of the importance of consent.  Broadly speaking, adherents to SSC believe that people should not engage in activities that are not safe or cannot be made safe.

RACK: Risk-Aware Consensual Kink

RACK, or risk-aware consensual kink, was coined in 1999 by David Switch as an intentional move away from the value-laden semantics of SSC (Miller & Switch, n.d.; “Risk-aware consensual kink”, 2021).

Despite the popularity of SSC, some BDSM practitioners eventually began to realize that SSC may exclude edgier forms of play that involve higher physical and/or psychological risk, which may be part of the motivation for participation. Risk, of course, is relative and can vary tremendously across individuals. (Williams, Thomas, Prior, & Christensen, 2014)

In RACK, we see a shift from the “safe and sane” semantics of SSC to “risk-aware” while maintaining the through-line of consent.  Many see “risk-aware” as being less nebulous than “safe and sane”, although they have a large overlap (i.e., you must be aware of the risks in order to play safely).  In contrast to SSC - again, broadly speaking - adherents to RACK believe that people should engage in activities being fully informed and aware of the potential risks, regardless of whether or not the activity is safe, since some activities are inherently unsafe.

PRICK: Personal Responsibility Informed Consensual Kink

PRICK, personal responsibility informed consensual kink (originally, “personal responsibility in consensual kink”), is another evolution of this discourse which appears to have been coined in 2002 at BDSM Overdrive (”Consent (BDSM)”, n.d.).

PRICK builds on RACK, but increases the emphasis on the role each person plays in the consent process. PRICK makes it very clear that a passive role in understanding what is going on is not acceptable. (Hamer, 2016)

PRICK can be seen as an amplification of RACK, where the passivity of “risk-aware” is transformed into a charge of personal responsibility.  It puts a greater emphasis on the obligation of kink practitioners to do their due diligence in proactively accepting personal responsibility, regardless of role or position, and keeping informed of the risks and implications of their kinks.

The 4Cs: Caring, Communication, Consent, and Caution

The 4Cs framework, encompassing caring, communication, consent, and caution, was introduced by Williams, Thomas, Prior, & Christensen in the Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality in 2014.

While SSC and RACK focus on two shared, essential, concepts (consent and safety/risk awareness), the 4Cs approach retains these general concepts and adds the interrelated dimensions of caring and communication...  

The inclusion of caring in a BDSM negotiation motto reflects an ethical stance while acknowledging individuals as unique human beings. The form of caring (i.e., level of trust and intimacy of relationships among participants in a scene) also shapes the qualitative experiences of BDSM. Communication, while often rightly discussed by BDSM authors under consent, is also strongly connected to caring and caution. Although presented separately, these concepts in BDSM are all tightly interwoven. Emphasizing communication should lead to a better understanding among participants regarding individuals’ unique identities, needs, and motivations, and thus more fulfilling BDSM experiences. In short, communication as its own entity allows for participants to better understand the subjective realities of those with whom they play. (Williams, Thomas, Prior, & Christensen, 2014)

The 4Cs introduce a more human element to kink considerations and places empathy and interpersonal connection as coequal to the activity itself.  There are a few things that stand out about the 4Cs to me - it is a published, intentional, and discursive framework which gives it legitimacy and longevity, and it gives focus to active and actionable items and not passive states.  I highly recommend reading the original paper for a deeper look.

Conclusion

SSC, RACK, PRICK, the 4Cs, and other frameworks which encompass ideologies or values around ethical kink are great ways to start a conversation about your personal involvement, interest, and insights into kink philosophy and practice.  As fairly established and well-understood schools of thought within BDSM communities, they also provide a great foundation for establishing common ground and understanding.  Ethical kink is, after all, what separates consensual BDSM from violence (and, in the context of this blog, consensual non-consent from sexual assault), and creates a safe and healthy atmosphere for its participants.

The markers distinguishing BDSM sex from violence include 1) voluntariness 2) communication 3) a safeword (the ability to stop the activity) 4) safe sex and 5) access to information about BDSM. The “healthy” BDSM partnership is characterized by 1) the absence of fear from the partner, 2) no feelings of guilt or worthlessness, 3) respect to the partner 4) the sexual meaning of the “scene”: distinguishing the “sex scene” from real life, no psychical violence (no manipulation, no psychological pressure, no destructive criticism) 5) the absence of the failure and compensation cycle but stable behavior 6) no isolation from family, friends, colleagues; access to money; no aggression 7) only mild hierarchy disparity between the partners in everyday life. (Jozifkova, 2013)

If you are just starting to learn about these terms and concepts, I encourage you to conduct some additional research and introspection to see what parts of them speak to you, resonate with experiences you’ve had, and lead you to deepen your connection to kink.  These frameworks are not meant to be a comprehensive checklist; there is plenty of latitude within them for nuance, so it is more important to gain an understanding of the underlying principles and moral considerations to find your grounding.  If you’re not sure of where to begin, I have included both scholarly and casual references that I think are good starting points for exploration. ▪

References

Consent (BDSM). (n.d.). Retrieved February 23, 2021, from https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Consent_(BDSM)#/PRICK

Hamer, W.J. (2016). BDSM and Helpseeking. Auckland University of Technology. Retrieved February 23, 2021, from https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10292/10457/HamerW.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y

Jozifkova, E. (2013). Consensual sadomasochistic sex (BDSM): The roots, the risks, and the distinctions between BDSM and violence. Current Psychiatry Reports, 15(9). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-013-0392-1

Miller, E., & Switch, G. (n.d.). Safe, sane, and consensual (SSC) and Risk-aware Consensual Kink (RACK). Retrieved February 23, 2021, from https://web.archive.org/web/20090501182232/http://vancouverleather.com/bdsm/ssc_rack.html

Nielsen, M. E. (2010). Safe, sane, AND CONSENSUAL—CONSENT and the ethics of BDSM. International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 24(2), 265-288. https://doi.org/10.5840/ijap201024223

Risk-aware consensual kink. (2021, January 20). Retrieved February 23, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk-aware_consensual_kink

Safe, sane and consensual. (2021, February 07). Retrieved February 23, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe,_sane_and_consensual

Stein, D. (n.d.). The origin of SAFE SANE CONSENSUAL. Retrieved February 23, 2021, from http://www.leatherleadership.org/library/safesanestein.htm

Williams, D.J., Thomas, J.N., Prior, E.E., & Christensen, M.C. (2014). From "SSC" and "RACK" to the "4Cs" : Introducing a New Framework for Negotiating BDSM Participation. Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality, 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-013-0392-1

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