Mitchell Loughlin’s Reviews > This Is How You Lose the Time War > Status Update

Blue used to-Yours- for the first time.
This method was in the feathers of a goose.


Red kindof copied blue by having an owl give blue a seed. Bird theme, more and more prevalent. My cardinal, the squak of a bluejay.

Compassion for your enemy is how you lose the time war

Red has left an actual letter in the cave. It’s made of blue paper, red wax dripped on the cover scented with the tea blue had in London. She knows red saved her life and is shocked. She declares plainly what she thinks of blue.

Blue despite starting all this is more afraid of the way she is feeling. Red despite being more robot then human has fallen completely for blue. They share things with each other

The gardeners have made a monster that hunts down operatives from the Agency. Blue had been tending one for a long time only to find this one had been made to kill red when she was young. The day she was out on her own pondering individuality that made Red capable of loving Blue.
Blue kills the monster, her first direct act of defiance and…turns into a dog??? She goes to a cave to bleed out

she helps tie rope, a recent invention, and convinces her boss to speak with the oracles.

She is given a peace of cloth that seems crocheted. Like Yiddish knots the letter is in the weaving.
Blue ponders on the meaning of Reds letters ending in Your’s. If she means this or if it is what Red thinks letters are intended to close in. She talks to individuality a bit.

Red sky at morning sailers take warning

“Adventure works in any strand — it calls to those who care more about living then for their lives”

Red is progressing the timeline of people in the Philippians helping them discover sea fairing sooner. She does this for a chance they come across China sooner which would help stabilize the economy due to the Philippians rich silver reserves. Through trade the Ming dynasty might last longer and prosper

Drinking tea in London blues handed a mismatched cup. As she swirls the tea the leaves and ripples form the letter. Red calls blue the shade of blue made on porcelains tea cups although that’s easy to miss until the end of the letter.

They have been revealing more and more secrets about themselves. How despite being a part of a whole each feels loneliness in there own way. They don’t have “friends”

Atlantis sinks: method, fire
Red needs to stop a volcano from destroying Atlantis-again. This is the 47tg Atlantis she has been sent to save. She stops when she finds the letter glowing and shifting in the lava. She is distracted enough to fail her mission.

I totally missed the pun of Sealing the letter in a seal…so dumb but pretty funny

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.

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.