House of Reeds

Into darkness, where the people will

Be cut to pieces and scattered.

This is the time of the Sixth Sun…

Contents

A Note Concerning Measurements

Dramatis Personae

An Imperial Light Cruiser

Drowned Venice, Six Months Later…

Tadmor Station

Jagan

Landing Field Six

A Nondescript House

The Imperial Development Board Warehouse Sobipurй Spaceport

The Petrel Estate

The Cornuelle

The Imperial Legation

The Horumkel Baths

The Petrel Townhouse

A Nondescript House

Up-River

The Palace of The Kujen

A Nondescript House

Takshila

The Gemmilsky House

Parus

Within the House of Reeds

The Cornuelle

The Gemmilsky House

Takshila

Parus

Above the Sobipurй-Parus Railway

Takshila

Parus

The Fane of the Kalpataru

The Captain's Launch

The House of Reeds

Near the Boulevard of Stepping Cranes

The Junction of Provincial Route Twenty-Two and the Railway

A Sub-Basement

The District of Open Eyes

The Gemmilsky House

Aboard the Captain's Launch

Parus

The Cornuelle

Near Rural Highway Two-Fifteen

The Southbound Express

An Undisclosed Location

The Imperial Legation

The Courts of the Morning

The Main Train Station

Aboard the Cornuelle

Near the Train Station

The Cornuelle

The Sobipurй Bus Terminal, Parus

The Petrel Townhouse

Aboard the Starliner Asuka

Appendix

Dramatis Personae

The Imperials

Tezozуmoc, a Mйxica prince of low repute. The youngest son of the reigning Mйxica Emperor Ahuitzotl

Master Sergeant Lorne Colmuir, a Skawtish Eagle Knight, the prince's bodyguard

Sergeant Leslie Dawd, a Skawtish Eagle Knight, and the prince's other bodyguard

Yacatolli,Tlacateccatl (Colonel) of the 416th Arrow Knight regiment (motorized) – the 'Tarascan Rifles'

The Crew of The Imn Henry R. Cornuelle

Chu-sa (Commander) Mitsuharu Hadeishi, captain

Sho-sa (Lieutenant Commander) Susan Kosho, executive officer

Thai-i (Senior Lieutenant, weapons officer) Patrick Hayes

Thai-i (Senior Lieutenant, engineering) Isoroku Oushi

Sho-i (Midshipman, communications) Daniel Smith

Thai-i (Senior Lieutenant, Marine detachment) Huйmac

Gunso (Sergeant) 'Hork' Fitzsimmons, Imperial Marines

Heicho (Corporal) Felix, Imperial Marines

Captain's Steward Kusaru Yejin

Helsdon, chief machinist's mate

Imperial Citizens On Jagan

Itzpalicue (Skirt-of-Knives), agent of the Mirror Which Reveals The Truth

Mrs. Greta Hauksbee Petrel, wife of the Imperial Resident on Jagan

Soumake, Imperial attachй in charge of Antiquities, Jagan

Johann Gemmilsky, Polish expatriate, riding lizard trader

The Honorable Chartered Company

Doctor Gretchen Anderssen, xenoarchaeologist, mother of three

David Parker, Company Pilot, assigned to Anderssen's analysis team

Magdalena, Hesht communications and systems expert, also assigned to Anderssen's analysis team

The Jehanan

Bhrigu,kujen of Parus, lord of the Seven Rivers

Bhazuradeha, a poetess, client of the kujen Bhrigu