PalmCaster · The Books of the Hand
The register
The book keeps a register of every name. This page keeps a few of them, enough to begin. Nothing here goes beyond the opening pages and the book's own description.
- OBOBO
- Neither immortal nor mortal. His father was a watcher who came through a door heaven failed to close. His mother was a woman of the salt flats who gave a stranger bread. He opened his palm before he opened his eyes, and he named himself. He has eight arms, and not one of them was made to hold a weapon.
- SHEN
- OBOBO's mother, named for her country. She met a stranger on the salt at low tide and did not ask him what he was. She gave him bread.
- HARROD
- The Guv'nor of the Underlands. The High sent him out and never retrieved him.
- WENDY of the Risers
- Her order paints small standing figures for the fallen. The eyes are completed only when the rising is real.
- The Immortals
- Eight hundred and eighty-eight, sent to keep the world. Over the long ages keeping hardened into governing, and holding into possession.
- The three lies
- One about the dead, one about the past, one about the present. They are patient. They are the nearest thing the canon has to an enemy.
- The question
- What was taken from you that belonged to your being?
The register in the book is complete. This one will lengthen as THE LONG KEEPING continues.