the hands of god

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Language: English

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Publisher: archiveofourown.org

Published: Nov 16, 2022

Words: 135863
Grade: 5
Pages: 757
Readability: 86.09

Description:

Now this is familiar, more comfortable, territory: talking about Sumeru and other people and their problems.

This Nahida can do. This, Nahida knows.

So Nahida waves Al-Haitham forward, drawing his attention back to herself, and shows to him her plans thus far. She answers his questions with General Mahamatra’s help, and they talk and they plan and they build.

They talk to each other, they ask each other questions, and Nahida can keep up. They debate over details, each of them bringing something different but good and useful to the figurative table as well as the literal one as Nahida kneels on the edge of the Grand Sage’s chair to watch the plans and notes being sketched out and written over anew with every reiteration of plan and timetable.

Nahida thinks that maybe she is getting the hang of this Archon thing.

Finally.

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In the process of rebuilding Sumeru and the Akademiya, Nahida builds a life.