Ancillary Mercy fan art

Sphene and Translator Zeiat had spent the last two days in the decade room, playing a game of counters. Or at least it had begun as a standard game of counters. By now it also involved fish-shaped cakes, the fragments of two empty eggshells, and a day-old bowl of tea, which they every now and then dropped a glass counter into.

P.S. I imagine the fish-shaped cakes as being taiyaki:

Photo by Armi Deticio, from this website

frost and flame

This morning the candles left over from Halloween were covered in frost.



I lit one.