Aug 6
“We were told the rim was quieter than it was. Someone in the institutional weave had been telling us this, very gently, for years. The first time I learned the weave lied, I was on the cold deck of an asteroid I have never been able to find again on a map.”
The Order filed it as probably a sensor artifact. One Master didn’t believe them, and borrowed a smuggler’s ship to go look. What was in the rock was not a sensor artifact.
New chapter + interlude of Echoes of the Exile up now.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/85732781
