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Light in Glass (Star Wars)

Am I for this? Luke asks the darkness. Yes , it answers.

Mathématique: Chapter 86

“Is Colonel Sheppard wearing your sleepwear?” Rush asked Young.

Mathématique: Chapter 85

This was Sheppard’s ground: night-girded architectures and alien trade winds, blowing strong over water that couldn’t stay dark.

Mathématique: Chapter 84

Eli glared at Rush. “Don’t pretend like this isn’t the best day of your life.”

Mathématique: Chapter 83

It was easy to think of Jackson as an eccentric, an academic with a bladed moral compass, a nerd with celestial backing that sometimes leaked through.

Designations Congruent with Things: A Coda In Two Parts

There is no pity in a Category Five Mako Mori hug.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 27

Hwi rolls down a window.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 26

  “Hashtag, ‘accuracy’,” Newton whispers, like a secret shared.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 25

He’s committed casual, causal, quantum-mechanical calumnies.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 24

“Evariste.” Newton provocatively snaps a sterile glove as he pulls it on. “Galois.”

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 23

The kids hiss with polite, venomous interest.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 22

“Do not ignore my questions with science fiction tangents, Newton; I am in no mood to be compared to Princess Leia.”

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 21

  If you want to destroy my sweater…

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 20

“When Tiffany designs and builds an underwater Turing Machine, please be sure to inform me,” Hermann says.

Designations Congruent with Things: A Correspondence In Two Parts

  Is this the real life?

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 18

Hermann is personally offended that, as he’s brushing his teeth in an immaculate, white-tiled bathroom, Is this it? by The Strokes begins to play on repeat in his head.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 17

Absolut failure.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 16

Somewhere in his mind, a man significantly braver and less organized than he waits in mental wings, offstage and in the dark.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 15

“You really could not be a better Spider Man villain if you tried,” Newt mutters at himself.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 14

His shoe. The sea.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 13

Delicious pancakes are delicious.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 12

  Hermann is no stranger to sleepless nights.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 11

Geiszler victorious, Newt tags this moment.

Designations Congruent with Things: An Interlude In Two Parts

They make it out of Hong Kong.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 9

  Extreme Post-drift Induced Cognitive Rapport.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 8

Mathematicians do not hedge.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 7

Lie in a magnet, Dr. Geiszler, just lie there . Get your brain scanned.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 6

Ugh. Biologists.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 5

Who sits down one day and says, “I could really use a coordinate system right about now?” René De-epic-intellectual-badass-cartes, that’s who.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 4

The problem with Newton is, and always has been, everything.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 3

“I feel weird,” Newt decides.

Designations Congruent with Things: Chapter 2

The question of what one should do immediately post an averted apocalypse does not have an intuitive answer.

Designations Congruent with Things: A Prologue In Two Parts

Key change, people; brace yourselves.

Out of Many Scattered Things: Things Exactly As They Are

“Like,” Newton says, in helpless appeal, “wave functions, man.”

Out of Many Scattered Things: Failing the Solo Trial

“Tell me, in absolute honesty, what is the state of your living quarters?” Hermann says.

Out of Many Scattered Things: Geneva 2020

THE WALL OF LIFE. All caps, to better match the shouting.

Out of Many Scattered Things: Crystal Lake

“I can’t believe it,” everyone says, in voices that are not surprised.

Out of Many Scattered Things: The Blue Guitar

I like to think of you winning every lottery. All of the time. For all time.

Out of Many Scattered Things: Lady Stardust

“I can’t believe I drove a metacognitive car into your brain like a total badass,” Lightcap says.

Out of Many Scattered Things: Kingmaker

The love child of Eris and Aphrodite, skating on a shell, playing only Chell…

Out of Many Scattered Things: Science Charm

Happy Quantum Field Tuesday; you have been science charm’d.

Out of Many Scattered Things: Epistolaric Empiricism

I say call a spade a spade, and call a transdimensional rift a transdimensional rift, am I right?

Aftermath: 50 - And Then The End is Known

Together, they look out at the sky, over the land, as if from the cockpit of a Jaeger.

Aftermath: 49 - Like an Ill-Sheathed Knife (2028)

“He’s working his magic on you.” Mako wipes her eyes, returns to her scones. “You were a tough customer.”

Aftermath: 48 - The Omen Coming On

He flings the flowers along the vector of the wind. They fall, end over end, toward the sea.

Aftermath: 47 - Chimes at Midnight (2015)

“Were you thinking about math ,” Newton breathes suggestively.

Aftermath: 46 - Until Our City Be Afire (2017)

Here, and everywhere. Now and everywhen.

Aftermath: 45 - The Garland of the War (2027)

Something out of dreams he’d had a dozen years ago: Dr. Geiszler, world-weary and sad, carrying a terrible equanimity.

Aftermath: 44 - Untangle This (2030)

Spontaneously, Mako throws her arms around him, hugs him hard.