Ancillary Mercy: Chapter 1 discussion!
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SO. What are your thoughts? :D
SO. What are your thoughts? :D
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Date: 2015-09-06 11:28 am (UTC)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.