Executioners World 131 Entropy Full [top]

When a character or a world reaches "Full Entropy," several things happen:

Philosophers who had survived laughed at the word "survive" the way one laughs when an old language is misused. Survival on World 131 was a mosaic of refusals and continuations. To continue was to make room for unpredictability: to accept that a route to water might be closed tomorrow, that a friend might simply cease to answer, that the blueprints of the city might fold into a new, unauthorized geometry. Houses reclined into other houses. Streets subsumed gardens. The mapmakers—those who persisted in drawing—began to annotate not with coordinates but with stories: "Here a child planted a mango; these steps lead to a room that remembers song." executioners world 131 entropy full