A Farewell to Arms (short story)

 was the fifth story of The Book of the Peace, written by Nate Bumber.

Summary
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Characters

 * Nezf
 * Huxley
 * Wade
 * T
 * Ka(h) Loqou
 * Shift
 * Body

Continuity

 * The Plume Coteries and the Amazolian system previously appeared in PROSE: Cobweb and Ivory.
 * Shifts originate from PROSE: Alien Bodies
 * The Labyrinth originates from PROSE: The Book of the War.
 * The original Shockley's Den of Almost Limitless Inquity perished in a cataclysm at the start of the War in Heaven. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
 * Nezf spent decades trying to get to the City of the Saved before the Uptime Gate closed. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)
 * The "Greater Key" (COMIC: The Forgotten) is said by most to be a box with circular writing, (TV: The Day of the Doctor, et al.) but one person thinks its a metal cylinder. (PROSE: The Eyeless)
 * Huxley has been observing the Great Houses since their old (AUDIO: Words from Nine Divinities) war king (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5, et al.) was a magistrate. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) From this, he predicted the Sixth Wave. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * T fought on Mohandassa (PROSE: The Book of the War) and remembers the Utterlost Accords. (PROSE: Pre-narrative Briefings)
 * A minotaur with books is seen in the labyrinth. (AUDIO: A Labyrinth of Histories)
 * Wade and T guess that the Shift could be a former agent of Foyle's Remonstration Bureau or a former Eremite. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Walking through the site of a battle, Wade sees a shattered gauntlet (TV: The End of Time, et al.) and a totemic gun. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * The Body is found "orbiting the far regions, near the black hole" (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors) and has its memories reconstructed. (PROSE: Father Time)