"Two hundred children," says Harrowhark. Now that the moment is here, she's exhausted.
"From the ages of six weeks to eighteen years. They needed to all die more or less simultaneously, for it to work. My great-aunts measured out the organophosphates after weeks of mathematics and pumped them through the cooling system."
The tide crashes on the shore. Hollowly: "The infants alone generated enough thanergy to take out the entire planet. Babies always do for some reason."
It's a grislier detail than she's given anyone else. Some things are for her cavalier alone.
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Date: 2020-10-17 10:25 pm (UTC)"From the ages of six weeks to eighteen years. They needed to all die more or less simultaneously, for it to work. My great-aunts measured out the organophosphates after weeks of mathematics and pumped them through the cooling system."
The tide crashes on the shore. Hollowly: "The infants alone generated enough thanergy to take out the entire planet. Babies always do for some reason."
It's a grislier detail than she's given anyone else. Some things are for her cavalier alone.