Katalepsis, Eusebeia Epoche - placid islands; black infinity - 2-1.7
Chapter waits in the old clocktower, singing songs to passing maidens, waiting for the hands to strike the hour.
https://katalepsis.net/2025/05/09/placid-island-black-infinity-2-1-7/
This week's password is: reverie
Epub version of the chapter is also linked down below!
Maisie is really settling in for the long haul now. She's found her voice and found her place and I don't think I could dislodge her from this path even if I threw my entire metatextual weight at her. Then again, I don't want to! I hope you're enjoying all this as much as I am, dear readers, because I am having a blast letting Maisie go wild all over the page.
Anyway! Behind the scenes it looks like this arc is still on track to be a long one, though I can't yet say exactly how long. 20 chapters? More? It all depends on how our girl swerves, and I don't seem to be able to predict that; she has surprised me yet again in this chapter, so!
Back onto Maisie's wild ride we go!
Comments (6)
If Maisie likes the buxom anime babes, I'm surprised she didn't have more of a reaction to Praem!
Weeeeeeell, Praem is kinda like her niece? Perhaps she's just being polite about it? Or maybe Praem isn't quite her type in other ways.
I guess I never really thought about how weird it was that Heather wanted to bone down with every old building she saw until Maisie pointed it out
Mmhmm! It's one of Heather's obsessions/fixations, which in Heather's POV just seems ... natural? Normal? She wreathes it in poetic language and doesn't often directly point it out. Whereas Maisie is fully aware of the intent which lay behind all that building-worship and very willing to say what it means!
Maise is a slut?! What, nooooooo.... Who could have thunk such a thing as that? Absolutely ridiculous.... Seriously though. Girl is thirstier than a dying woman in a desert. She needs to get laid ASAP.
LMAO. She's very transparent about it, too. She seems to think she's being coy and clever and speaking around the problem, but it's informed almost all of her decision-making so far. I'm not even sure if getting laid would actually help. It might make her worse!