Requests were in to continue the Slog, so here we go, Chapter 1:
Seswatha paused on the stair, warred with his stomach. He looked down and for some reason felt no surprise, no alarm, to see that the golden map-case had become an infant's inert form. Blue and grey. Mottled with black bruising, as if it had perished while lying on its face. Slicked with the sweat of the dead.
This dream, this
changed dream. It features the map case as a baby, the contents of the coffers is the Whirlwind, so what is this telling us? Is it in reverse, sort of? A stillborn baby, a reference to the No-God? This time though, it's Seswatha in the dream that is saying, "this isn't what happens." Is that a clue that Seswatha isn't behind the changes in the Dreams?
I still am weary of Kellhus being behind these Dreams. Could it be another agent though? Who else would know such details of Seswatha's life though?
According to her, the Wight-in-the-Mountain had been driven away by her Chorae and that was that. When he reminded her that the Captain also carried a Chorae, one that apparently made no difference, she would simply shrug as if to say, "Well, I'm not the Captain, am I?"
He knew that some agencies could be summoned shorn of the Outside, plucked whole as it were, while others bore their realities with them, swamping the World with porous madness. The shade of Gin'yursis, Achamian knew, had been one of the latter.
Chorae only negated violations of the Real; they returned the world to its fundamental frame. But Gin'yursis had come as figure and frame—a symbol wedded to the very Hell that gave it meaning...
Mimara's Chorae should have been useless.
Something was open that should not have been open. She closed it...
Somehow.
...
A tear of the God, blazing in her palm. The God of Gods!
So, it's really not Mimara's Chorae that is special, it's
her. It's the Judging Eye. It seems that the Judging Eye gives Mimara some kind of access to the Frame and where a Chorae would normally be useless, it instead becomes hyper-useful. Could it be that Mimara somehow makes a Chorae
reverse?
I don't even know what that even really means, but she insists upon it's more divine nature, where we know that a Chorae is
not divine. It was made by Aporetic sorcerers, not any god. But with the Frame
reversed, the Chorae becomes what it's believed to be, a
tear of
God, in other words,
divine dispensation. It is now
actually holy, because the Frame, Mimara's Frame, says it is.