As I debriefed Eh, also reiterating my grievances in new, more polite terms, elaborating on them and then showed ihn… Read more 2.27 A Carefully Engineered Confrontation

“If I could design my own universe,” Morde said. “No new consciousnesses would be born within it. Maybe no life… Read more 2.26 Morde’s Referendum

Bashiketa sat quietly and watched as Fredge and Laal attempted to brief the person who was obviously the Benefactor of… Read more 2.25 Protector

Ni’a found that they desperately wanted to infodump to Abacus about everything they’d experienced, but they could also feel everything… Read more 2.24 Waves of Doubt

Bashiketa really had been scared about how they’d react when they got home. They knew that they had had difficult… Read more 2.23 Homeostasis, this will never be

It took three days before Ni’a returned to the Sunspot, and that’s when we learned the name of our parent… Read more 2.22 Home

I knew that the vow of the Crew would not just grant me social status, it would also grant me… Read more 2.21 Picking Names

What does an increasingly sanctioned Tutor do while stuck in the Network of the Sunspot? Well, my off-limits list hadn’t… Read more 2.20 Actual Introspection

“None of that matches any model of physics any scientist I know of has ever entertained,” remarked Metabang. “Right?” said… Read more 2.19 Building a Resistance

This is a bit of an interlude, and I don’t know how important it is, but it is so strange,… Read more 2.18 Hailing Scales