7th Desire (cont’d), 426:

6th – 7th Desire, 426 (cont’d): A surly, low-grade riot; the Battle of the Gates; “Her! It was her!”; Jerry’s Rightful Authority; shrinking refugees; “I’ll be a lightning rod”; questioning the Pickler; surrounded by alphabet dancers; all about Millers; hostages in the Scarecrow King; back from Here; the only way to stop the Judge; dragging Calvus; the Axis isn’t interested; melting in; the Pool and the Here; “Who is the ruler of the Three Moons?”; new symbols with old; “Can’t? Or won’t?”; Murry and the Judge; Palpebra’s down; Lætitia’s down; REPENT; the destruction of the Miller-glove; Perdix’ casting; the Judge’s dying request; Ishta’s down; Sonata’s down; Perdix’ down; Ilba dives after; the death of the Judge; Twilight.

6th – 7th Desire, 426: Baptising Murry; a silent inferno; off to Here; Sonata in Tikba’atta; orders for Perdix; a weather-something; question by question, mage by mage; “A species of truth”; into the Here; briefing the priests; death of a Weaver; Lætitia’s impressive performance.

5th – 6th Desire, 426: Off to silence a Judge; “We’re a little colicky”; the mystery of the disappearing town; part of what she owes them for the flood; “Dear Ishta, stack with plenty of space, love Perdix”; Aurelius; decoding the Judge; violet eyes; nudity as a magical technique; Trios of yore; burying the Judge; the Finger’s Great-Aunt’s fruit-service; Ndapé and Lætitia; the Judge resurgent; Ishta and Lætitia.

5th Desire, 426: Nipi and Nil; Nil and Gi; Palpebra and Nil and a Judge; either final, or soft-pedalled; the Finger’s funk; Nil’s methods; “We only had to cut off the one”; peace enough to pickle; the completion of the reading; Palpebra takes flight; a bird for Perdix; another Council; what happened at Naapiisachi; the Green Moon intendent.

4th – 5th Desire, 426: Sonata’s unmentionables drawer; pet rocks; the Red Moon intendent; eavesdropping; grain, to be ground into flour; grain, in smaller piles; arcane connections, some ethical considerations thereof; well, the Eleanoréans; the flower button; only a Cow for the full set; a Green divination; burning the Great Hall; usually you ask; Nil, in a snit; Aponta and the axe; a letter to Perdix; some business with a box.

1st – 4th Desire, 426: Competing reports; buckets of cold water; on the porch of Luknabbi’s yellow house; how to deal with Crow priests; Nil, in Gi’s bed; refugees; telling various people about the refugees; preparing for the refugees; Judges don’t sneak; an enormous metal hen; a place for the defense of the people of the Valley; “The wastrel Gieron”; orphans in the whorehouse; “What’s so funny?”

A stentorious update; “Yes, there were witnesses”; three to five years early; delaying tactics; Crow-vis; where the eggs will go; where the eggs will really go; Lalli and Cameron; Ishta’s starlight; decorating advice; not since college; fixing Nil’s spectacles.

Four Crow-eggs, then three; rallying the Birthday Party; fetching Perdix; preparing a brine-bath; securing the tower; stopping Nil; Palpebra, with fruit-baskets; freaking the bugs; bathing the magi; the webbing of Waakimbala’s house; “We need to know what we’re eating”; exorcising Crow; the sobriety of Perdix; the destruction of Naapiisachi; “It smells like a Pickler’s barn”; off to Okla Lokchok; initiating Nil; water and earth, Nil and Gi; the progress of the war.

The remains of the dairy; bringing down the Crow; breaking the Seige of Ofimitti; the Decapitation of Aafalakto’; recovering Ishkin; Perdix and Murry; the farce in Tully’s tower; how to dispose of a Crow-corpse.

Down and down; widdershins and sunwise; Gi, insensate; Cameron and Nashoba and Ndapé; Sonata and Ishta and Calvus; the maps all crash; “I’m beginning to feel concerned that I don’t feel concerned”; wine and cheese in the parlor; Gi’s gifts; measuring the Moon-pool; “Something holier was happening”; less stiff than Calvus.

Late in the afternoon; what Somnex hears; what’s up with Gi; færie-stuff; up some invisible steps, through an invisible door; the bottom of the cliff; the Battle of Naapiisachi; the Battle of Ofimitti; the Miller-glove; Lhimpat’s dungeon.

The Priest-King’s colors; “Maybe we should leave sooner”; Lhimpat’s visions aren’t visions; how Sofia does it; Fire! Monsters! Big monsters! Fear!; seven-leaguing it Twilish; Lhimpat and Perdix; cutting back on vinegar-bombs; run, and clean up later; Judges at the dairy; seizing a horn; the Knowledge pageant (short version); “Dead, or in a cell?”; Perdix and their cousin; tactics against Judges; Nil, mapping; a dozen pieces of horn in six villages; the reliability of prophecy.

Perdix, frequenter of brothels; Ishta quits; punching Gieron; dosing the eggs; snooping about the kitchen; questioning Itti; Ishta’s story; the apology owed to Nipi; Nipi, in Gi’s debt; some unexpected uses for perdo corpus in gastrointestinal illnesses.

Nipi’s power-play; driving a wedge; thrashing Love and Reason; any eventuality; birds so pure and white; the Committee for Less than Utter Disaster; the soldier and the weaver.

Palpebra’s circuit; Ishkin and Lhimpat; Gi’s penance; Jerry and Sonata; Perdix as Priest-King; Nipi’s Love, the Finger’s Reason; fourteen mustachio’d beavers; Honey’s curse; the niceties of ecumenical pageantry; the spy who’s spying; what Aponta might do; “Lorrie”; Gi as Priest-King, or maybe Calvus; Love and the Lover; drinking with Ishta; news from the west.

A knock; “Do I look like an idiot?”; bearding Perdix; Ishkin’s conjugation; the next fifteen years; “Nothing is private”; cats and copper, soup and swords; the return of Perdix; Mina and Mitahaffi; a punch for Perdix; “We can’t be married”; dropping Hans, dropping Palpebra; “Keep bringing gifts”; low, measured tones; contrition, but not a public apology; incomprehensible notes; bellowing at the castle; “This is gonna bleed us.”

What to do with the children; Filius Bestiæ; discussing the Light Globe Incident; taxes; the council is adjourned; the Sun God Resurgent; Illæ benignæ, or Linea Zecchius; a council for the Finger; the secret of the storm; killing Kline; what Mina said; Ilba the go-between.

Bugging Waakimbala; explosiony noises; “Do you have a cow?”; reparations, and reparations; paying Angelique; “It’s because we’re married and it’s Monkeystuff”; the wrong place for quiet and discretion; joining the covenant.

More punishment for Mitahaffi; what the rains have done; moving a mountain; “He’s the glue”; those elements necessary for seigecraft; Abakoshi’s gift; “Yip-yip?”; the floor, the rolling pin; “Who was that boy?”; Gieron, past the guards; what to do about the rain; Cameron casts his spell; dodging raindrops; Lætitia’s water; all wrong, but better; smashing the lights; turning off the dolls; Cameron erases his tracks; Marzipan’s fists; the rain stops, the wind picks up; Gi and Tansie, Perdix and Circumcessor; less glass in the hall; “Sky-clad?”; Abakoshi’s gift; Cameron’s day; what to discuss at council; sabotage.