Notes for Fiction in 2013-2014

Ambergris. Spoilers. Spoiling. You were warned.***Five years after Finch...Stark lives on...inside his brother Bosun's head. In the wake of the chaos of the Lady in Blue's attack, Bosun's thugs have annexed the Spit and a large section of territory near it, bolstered by captured gray cap weapons.The gray caps have retreated to the HFZ, launching periodic attacks. Their main enemies internally are Partials immune to their spores---driven out by the rebels and rejected by the gray caps. Their only chance is to reclaim the HFZ, or part of it.Sintra has risen through the ranks and has a hand in the decision-making of the native tribes enclave in the religious quarter, which has spread beyond, to the edge of Bosun's territory.The rest of the city is controlled by the Lady in Blue, whose transformed rebels exist in uneasy alliance with "pures"--those who did not come through the gate. Both factions are riven through with the ghost of Hoegbotton-Frankwrithe rivalries. The remnants of the Nimblytod and Dogghe tribes that control the religious quarter have been told to assimilate with the rebel forces for the common good. They're having none of it, but have held back waiting for the Lady in Blue to die and the rebels to implode.Rumor has it that John Finch is blind now, victim of a wasting disease that has him confined to a wheelchair in a room somewhere in Rathven's ever-growing underground tunnels. And Rathven? Who knows. There are more rumors about her now than there once were about the Lady in Blue. But the Photographer has been sighted recently, back in town.Out in the bay: the ruins of the two towers, reduced by fire following the rebel attack. And something still hidden there.Out in the bay: a single boat, late at night. A man, Bliss, who is not a man. More doors opening. All over the city.What is coming out of them?Bliss: "It's a very long game, Sintra. Longer than you or anyone could possibly imagine...so why don't you put the gun down, hmm?"