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Red working for a decade in the time of Gengis Kang is harvesting wood for seige equipment when she dines scares in the rings of a tree a letter from Blue. She asks about reds people, makes references again to history and a lot about nature. She talk about food and wonders if reds people eat. This letter was a cool idea.
Blue is hunting for seal meat and furs when she sees a seal with her color assigned to it.
— Jan 07, 2026 04:52AM
Blue is hunting for seal meat and furs when she sees a seal with her color assigned to it.
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Red answers her questions about eating, they don’t need to but she finds it an explorative hobby, she tastes all sorts of things not just food and doesn’t need to eat for calories, she eats for the experience as her people use sunlight and salt baths for nutrients.
Shes asks about blue and her friends.
The seeker is still following, consuming the refuge of the couples letters.
— Jan 07, 2026 04:54AM
Shes asks about blue and her friends.
The seeker is still following, consuming the refuge of the couples letters.
Mitchell Loughlin
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Both sides are so sure of their total victory and taunt each other. Each time they leave a note it is becoming more obscured.
1. A letter you need to burn to read
2. Water you need to boil to encode the message (not sure I got this one)
3. Holes drilled into the bones of a man red was sent to find
4. In the death code of an AI ( again not sure I got this one)
— Jan 07, 2026 04:28AM
1. A letter you need to burn to read
2. Water you need to boil to encode the message (not sure I got this one)
3. Holes drilled into the bones of a man red was sent to find
4. In the death code of an AI ( again not sure I got this one)
Mitchell Loughlin
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Some passages of this book I need to reread to understand. might just be me but I think it’s the futuristic sciences / artsy language that just takes a moment to digest.
The science feels like magic.
Red + blue take turns leaving notes to each other right where the others mission would have been successful if not for intervention. They leave humerus notes filled with historical references Shakespeare to Mario
— Jan 07, 2026 04:23AM
The science feels like magic.
Red + blue take turns leaving notes to each other right where the others mission would have been successful if not for intervention. They leave humerus notes filled with historical references Shakespeare to Mario
Mitchell Loughlin
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The writing of this is very vivid. It uses a lot of description yet to describe red as calculating, emotional, but not overly
— Jan 07, 2026 03:48AM
Mitchell Loughlin
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Careful, patient, they work in the shadows and try to literally seed the world to grow into something new.
On the battlefield after killing millions red finds a letter. They are suspicious of a trap but read it anyways. It is designed to burn as they read it to prevent re-reading.
Someone, a seeker, does find a way to read it “again” using wrinkles in time and drops of there rainbow blood
— Jan 07, 2026 03:47AM
On the battlefield after killing millions red finds a letter. They are suspicious of a trap but read it anyways. It is designed to burn as they read it to prevent re-reading.
Someone, a seeker, does find a way to read it “again” using wrinkles in time and drops of there rainbow blood
Mitchell Loughlin
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The time war is not what I thought. Instead of the future at war with the past its two futures each trying to seed a universe where they exist. The two sides have very different strategies. The agency which red belongs to prefers to destroy all threads of time that weave away from there future. They attack big, and fast descanting whole planets with a single solider. The gardeners which blue belongs to are….
— Jan 07, 2026 03:45AM
