T. memeticus: A Morphology (short story)

 was the fourth story in The Book of the Enemy.

Summary
In the Stacks, eight objects, Braquemard, and Mace sit around. They know that Father Stendec is on the trail of a cryptid, and that these eight objects are supposedly linked to it, and one by one Mace picks up the objects and tells Braquemard what he thinks their story is.

Morrahaurm, a saurian, in her submersible, tried to escape Kotdel, as she thought back on what made her come on this trip. A wreck, a relic of extraterrestrial visitors to earth, looking like multiple snakes turned to stone. A scientist suggested that the lack of craters in the area confirmed the age, but Morrahaurm was unsure, thinking that if it was advanced enough it might just have appeared. Kotdel then went to look at the ship when it was cut free, before attacking everyone else onboard and destroying all recordings of the ship.

The city of Antivocallio, through temporal fallout from the War, existed in different zones in time. George Stillsome worked at a print works, taking in manuscripts from monks, rendering them into moveable type, and sending them to a publisher who would make them into mass market paperbacks and digitize them. Stillsome was sent a picture that he would need to have an artist render before sending further on, however, most of the page was obscured in ink, the animal described lived in the sea, but that's all that could be seen. In the end they accuse a cat of causing this mess.

Characters

 * Cousin Mace
 * Cousin Braquemard
 * Morrahaurm
 * Kotdel
 * Imp'lok
 * Miscus
 * Commander Auxtac
 * George Stillsome
 * Jenkin
 * Mason
 * Sir Archibald Hammock
 * Dr Philemon Smallcoate
 * Lieutenant Tankerville
 * Sister Hilda
 * Brother Wilbraham
 * Sister Sexburga
 * Lady Thelema
 * Prince Baphomet
 * Byzo
 * Mangrove
 * Sequoia
 * Hazel
 * Maddie Maddox
 * Bob
 * Héloïse
 * Sir Kingsley Amis
 * Zaleena

Continuity

 * Godfathers Stendec and Morlock are mentioned. (PROSE: The Book of the War, et al)
 * Kotdel and Imp'lok are members of a Triad. (TV: Warriors of the Deep)
 * Morrahaurm briefly thinks of her people's flying kindred. (AUDIO: The Adolescence of Time)
 * Smallcoate found traces of the memeticus in the myths of the Ainu (PROSE: The Book of the War) and the Mayakai. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, COMIC: Political Animals, Bêtes Noires & Dark Horses)
 * The Collection of Necessary Secrets originates from PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet.
 * Wilbraham originates from PROSE: De Umbris Idearum.
 * Pope Beatrix's Crusade against the Mal'akh is mentioned. (PROSE: De Umbris Idearum)
 * The inhabitants of the Infernal Sphere are allied with the Osirian Court. (AUDIO: Coming to Dust, et al)
 * Sentient trees exist in an era after the destruction of Earth. (TV: The End of the World)
 * The Celestis use "world-warping mechanisms fueled by literature". (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)
 * Héloïse and Zaleena meet with with a starfish-like creature with five legs, five tentacles, and five eyestalks, who claims to be skilled in martial arts. (PROSE: Venusian Lullaby)