Added D-290 The Tower is written with awe, beauty and curiosity. Death and loss are written plainly, never with melodrama. The wonder is real, and so is the price; neither cancels the other.
The pack sits upright on the gallery ledge, strap still looped over a stub of ivory, as if its owner had set it down to look at the view. Far below, a waterfall you did not know was there catches the light. Whoever he was, he saw it too.
Lantern Shard: "Warm for a week after it breaks off. Nobody knows what it is warm for."
EXAMPLE, NOT CANON: the passage shows the register, not a fact about any pack.
- Describe what is seen, not what it means. Imply, never explain (§2).
- Let the Tower be beautiful even when it kills.
- People speak plainly about death; the frontier is used to it.
- No grand prophecy, no chosen one, no villain behind the Tower.