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flower_of_justice2015-09-05 04:58 pm
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Ancillary Mercy: Chapter 1 discussion!
Don't have Chapter 1 yet? You can get it by signing up for a low-traffic Ann Leckie-specific mailing list. (Warning: that link takes you to her 17th post in a series that's parcelling out chapter 1 in advance of publication. It is very nearly an essentially spoiler-free sentence, however.)
SO. What are your thoughts? :D
SO. What are your thoughts? :D
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It is the best quality obliviousness, and I am eating it up with a spoon.
And then we come to the gravity malfunction, and then to THAT paragraph (the one ending "Had I thought that? Why would I ever think that?") and I just... that sentiment where you really want to hug someone except not because they would not like that at all?
Breq: "a favorite officer's tea was never cold."
One page later, Seivarden, not even prompted by Ship: "Your tea is getting cold."
"Seivarden, who had always been oblivious to her ships' feelings" oh god. I mean, she's not wrong about Seivarden and her previous ships, but LOOK WHO IS TALKING HERE.