In the seventy-eighth year of the war, an Architect came to Berlenhof.
Idris had put out on the Pythoness.
— Shards of Earth, p. 363
The above is a flashback. Tchaikovsky made us wait 363 pages to finally learn the full story of what happened on Berlenhof, where Solace and Idris first met.
Another thing self appreciates about Tchaikovsky is his sense of scale. When a ship is targeted, it doesn’t just explode: The Locust Ark, sister ship of the Pythoness, “was shredded across fifty kilometres of space.”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 