What Keeps Their Lines Alive (short story)

What Keep Their Lines Alive was the second story in The Book of the Peace.

Summary
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Characters

 * Amara
 * Axastyakis
 * Hole
 * Mullion
 * Cá Bảy Màu
 * The C-form loa

Worldbuilding

 * Hole was created to serve tea.
 * Cá Bảy Màu has a Melbourne accent.
 * Mullion has fought the Shed Scales.

Continuity

 * Faction Paradox is referred to as a Great House. (AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities)
 * Paradox anxiety is mentioned in the book of A. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Axastyakis comes from a bone-faced people who lived on rock-pods and had witchcraft explained and entrapped in rationality, with "every drop of blood in its right place". (TV: The Christmas Invasion, et al.)
 * The vast majority of Homeworlders who join the Faction automatically skip the rank of Cousin. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Amara knows that a loa can be created through time-stacking and sings a snippet of a shanty on the topic. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil)
 * Amara wears an eye-shaped brooch from a 1990s sci-fi TV show. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Cá Bảy Màu was born after the Ghost Point. (PROSE: This Town Will Never Let Us Go)
 * Mullion lived through the Eleven-Day Empire being eaten (AUDIO: The Shadow Play) and the drafting of the mock Venue Accords. (PROSE: The Book of the War, The End of the Beginning)
 * Mullion wears the "anathematic fossils of [her] tainted Homeworld kin". (PROSE: Alien Bodies, The Book of the War)
 * Immediately before her death and renewal, Mullion sees a figure resembling her future incarnation with a wet, white, and blurred face. (TV: Logopolis)
 * Mullion has three brain stems. (TV: Extremis)
 * Amara's looping existence has caused time-thickening. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Cá Bảy Màu asks if the Enemy have an Eye on Earth (PROSE: Head of State, A Bloody (And Public) Domaine) to which Amara responds that the Enemy spoke to her of Eternity. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * The book of C speaks of a "mote" in the eye / a "gaping lady splinter digging in". (PROSE: Head of State)
 * A shanty by Little Sibling Shotgun is quoted. (PROSE: Weapons Grade Snake Oil)
 * Amara's brooch has browned over time and she says that the enemy made her into "a ticking bomb". (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Hole has three brain stems. (TV: Extremis)
 * By burrowing into Mullion, Amara would become the Enemy's rep within Faction Paradox. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5, et al.)
 * Faction Paradox acting troupes spreading knowledge of the Peace are later mentioned in PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice and PROSE: The End of the Beginning.
 * Axastyakis, Hole, Mullion and Cá Bảy Màu reappeared in PROSE: White Canvas.