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2020/034: Lifelode -- Jo Walton
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 07:16 am2020/034: Lifelode -- Jo Walton
If you travel east from the small village of Applekirk, you will eventually meet gods and lose your sense of self: and should you travel back towards Applekirk, you'll find that time has passed more swiftly there than it has for you. Travelling west brings you to lands without magic ('yeya', or more formally 'the aeaean arts') where the people are little more than automatons.
( minor spoilers )
Every year from the time she comes from Margam Taveth makes a huge plait which the harvest queen cuts at the festival. This is the last year she makes one, because later they remind her of Jankin and all that has happened. [loc. 1655]
If you travel east from the small village of Applekirk, you will eventually meet gods and lose your sense of self: and should you travel back towards Applekirk, you'll find that time has passed more swiftly there than it has for you. Travelling west brings you to lands without magic ('yeya', or more formally 'the aeaean arts') where the people are little more than automatons.
( minor spoilers )
