I feel like this book is a good inspiration for how secret agents of heaven might think and feel. Garden, instead, works by letting their agents go undercover for livetimes on end, growing and pruning their efforts one day at a time to cultivate the future in which they won. The tendency is for the Agency to do the 'secret agent' thing, putting their operatives into a situation to make a concentrated, accurate strike at just the right moment, turning the arc of history their way before pulling out again. Their organisations are still mostly Sidereal to me, though. Red and Blue themselves are more like an Alchemical and a Lunar-ish thing, I suppose. Or, perhaps, more like a Getimian thing? I'm not sure, I don't know them very well yet. Writing letters in the rings of a growing tree, the beating of an insect's wings and the random knots on a sea-tossed length of rope is also totally something that seems like a Fate things to me. True, time travel isn't a Thing in Exalted, but the idea of meeting your soul mate on the job, starting out by dancing around each other, only to notice that at some point you started dancing together, sound like a super Sidereal way to do romance. One of the many reactions I had when reading it was that this seems like two Sidereals. I can see it being a bit too purple for some, but I'm about it. SeptemName: This Is How You Lose the Time War Authors: Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone Number of Pages: 209 (ebook) Published: July 16th 2019 by Saga Press Genre: Science Fiction Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. El-Mohtar is a poet, and the prose and moods in this novel is definitely one of the biggest selling points for me.

By the end of the book, it's stopped being 'me against you' and become 'us against them'.

They start writing little notes and calling cards to flex their victories and tease each other, but they soon find that having someone to talk to that can properly relate to their very special circumastance is pleasant. To summarize if you haven't read it, it's an epistolary novelette (209 pages in print, 4 h 16 min in audio book) featuring two time travelling agents, Red and Blue, on opposing sides of a secret war that spans all of Earth and history. I recently finished the wonderful novelette This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

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