Elsewhere in Maquette

So far, Félicie had avoided hearing too much about the war among the Dextrolumas. It was an internal affair, she told herself. There was simply no point in getting invested. It was happening far away and she couldn't do anything anyway to influence its course. With no outside meddling involved by the aggressors, wouldn't it be kind of... wrong to attempt to tip the scales?  Yet no matter how hard Félicie tried to ignore the news, these information always seemed to find her. New repo...

When there was a war in one of her novels, the heroines were always brave, resourceful, and incredibly supportive. Some of them even joined their respective army, although most stayed behind and managed the accompanying shortage of supplies miraculously well. Somehow they often could send surplus to the frontlines. Frauke had always imagined she would be like them. But now that there was an actual war that nobody had seen coming, she didn't know what to do. Most news had a very reassur...

It took a while for the news about the war on Aerius to reach Hati. For once, he was rather old-fashioned, especially when it came to technology. But he also was not particularly interested in that planet. Once he was aware of what happening, though, that changed. Wars were common on Earth and other places, so he had stopped paying attention to these long ago. When he was younger, he had tried to figure out who was in the right and to fight with them. But he had learned the hard way that "rig...

Momme paced in circles around the main room of the cylindrical tower he lived in. The news of the war were devastating. Even though he was safe in Maquette, tucked away securely within the forest of a hidden valley, he knew this war was affecting him. He knew he was lucky, though. His home was not threatened. He could, in theory, decide to simply not visit Aerius and continue living here as if nothing ever happened. But that would be wrong. Every bit of himself refused to indulge in this igno...