It's a bonus too, if it gives us stuff like her imagining taking the civilian Volker at her work out to fight "bad guys", lol lmao. Homa has mech brainworms too, and I support it.

When she sees the "Pandora's Box" docking at her goofy dockworker job, I practically screamed. SAVE HER, TRANSBIAN COMMUNISTS!!! TRANSBIAN COMMUNISTS SAVE HER!!!!!!! I gotta say, reintroducing the Brigand by having it arrive to someone fresh is such a good move, this whole chapter fucks.

A workaday cat like Homa envied even the relatively small freedom of working on a ship.

LOOK at how fucking juicy her narration is, she is so fucking CHARACTERISED!!! Even when she is simping Ulyana, which critical support, lol. She IS IN FACT dorky and Ulyana knows it, which funny enough I find Ulyana's flirty nature very enjoyable compared to a Jayansakar, for instance. Idk what the difference is.

Homa lived 2500 meters below sea level of a scarred world without justice or peace.

Oh I knowwwwww the Depths are so Unjust to you, it isn't riiight ✨ This chapter has so many good lines, I didn't have much criticism for the prose and narration of prior chapters but I think the standard has risen for Anthology Two, ngl. Mostly you would get little specific scenes of stuff that would offer insight into whoever the camera was on, like Norn in the shower onboard the Antenora, or Ulyana and Aaliyah drinking together after the Gorge. I dunno if we've had this long an establishing "tracking shot" since Murati was introduced and I'm so here for it. Atomised, lonely, gay gay cat lady, the claws of the Imbrian empire having separated and distanced her from her own people.

I have asked funny leftist lady and she agreed that yes, the quality of just line-to-line writing, the prose and similes and general narration, has all seen a huge bump in quality since I last checked in circa 9.6 and Interlude II. Shit was already pretty good, but I fuckin drank this in and it gave me joy.