Synopsis
This is the original draft version of ItSoH. It is incomplete, partway through act 3, and will not be finished in this form. The new version is available here. The new version follows most of the same continuity, but is significantly better written.
ACT ONE: New Creatures with New Hearts
POVs: Yan, Aymon
Complete act. Chapters 1-42. Approx word count is 225,000 words.
To catch up on the story faster, you may consider reading the abridged act one.
Table of Contents / Reference Sheet for part one can be found here. Contains spoilers.
ACT TWO: The Realms of the Unreal
POVs: Yan, Aymon, Sylva, Sid. +Kino bonus chapter.
Complete act. Chapters 43-89. Approx word count is 329,000 words.
To catch up on the story faster, you may consider reading the abridged act two.
ACT THREE: The Eyes that See the Glory
POVs: Yan, Aymon, Sylva, Sid. +Halen bonus chapter.
Incomplete. Chapters 90-current.
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Table of Contents
- 1Chapter One - Midnight's Shining Stars2024-11-13
- 2Chapter Two - Images and their Meanings2024-11-13
- 3Chapter Three - The Interview2024-11-13
- 4Chapter Four - Summer Plans2024-11-13
- 5Chapter Five - A Home Among the Stars2024-11-13
- 6Chapter Six - Our Father, Who Art Thou?2024-11-13
- 7Chapter Seven - Breakfast of Champions2024-11-13
- 8Chapter Eight - Claddagh2024-11-13
- 9Chapter Nine - Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow2024-11-13
- 10Chapter Ten - Deafman Glance2024-11-13
- 11Chapter Eleven - Meeting the Tamed Bear2024-11-13
- 12Chapter Twelve - The Refugee2024-11-13
- 13Chapter Thirteen - Dinner Date2024-11-13
- 14Chapter Fourteen - Far Away Secrets Are Easy to Keep2024-11-13
- 15Chapter Fifteen - A Simple Prayer of Delicate Design2024-11-13
- 16Chapter Sixteen - All Of Us Pirates Would Have Been Martyrs, Part I2024-11-13
- 17Chapter Seventeen - A Tamed Bear Still Has Claws2024-11-13
- 18Chapter Eighteen - Debrief and Disrobe2024-11-13
- 19Interlude: The Book of Secrets2024-11-13
- 20Chapter Nineteen - A Return to the City2024-11-13
- 21Chapter Twenty - The Weapon Concealed in Silk2024-11-13
- 22Chapter Twenty-One - Just Two Slow Dancers2024-11-13
- 23Chapter Twenty-Two - An Assignment and a Social Visit2024-11-13
- 24Chapter Twenty-Three - A Song in the Dark2024-11-13
- 25Chapter Twenty-Four - The Flame Which Casts a Long Shadow2024-11-13
- 26Chapter Twenty-Five - Abandon Ship / Abandon Hope2024-11-13
- 27Chapter Twenty-Six - That Which Will Never Be Forgiven2024-11-13
- 28Chapter Twenty-Seven - Scrubbing the Walls of Chauvet Cave2024-11-13
- 29Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Cool Darkness Underground2024-11-13
- 30Chapter Twenty-Nine - The Dead on Culloden's Field2024-11-13
- 31Chapter Thirty - Shock and Awe2024-11-13
- 32Chapter Thirty-One - The Eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg2024-11-13
- 33Chapter Thirty-Two - The Marquis2024-11-13
- 34Chapter Thirty-Three - The Good Captain2024-11-13
- 35Chapter Thirty-Four - Trial by Comparison2024-11-13
- 36Chapter Thirty-Five - An Appearance Meant Not to Deceive but to Inform2024-11-13
- 37Chapter Thirty-Six - The Past Is Not a Home You Can Go Back To2024-11-13
- 38Chapter Thirty-Seven - All Of Us Pirates Would Have Been Martyrs, Part II2024-11-13
- 39Chapter Thirty-Eight - Fighting Fire With Fire2024-11-13
- 40Chapter Thirty-Nine - Holy Sick Divine Nights2024-11-13
- 41Chapter Forty - The Emperor's Punishment2024-11-13
- 42Chapter Forty-One - A Death in the Family2024-11-13
- 43Chapter Forty-Two - What Shall We Do with a Drunken Spacer?2024-11-13
- 44(Reference Chart / Table of Contents) Part One: New Creatures With New Hearts2024-11-13
- 45(Abridgment Guide) Act One: New Creatures with New Hearts2024-11-13
- 46Chapter Forty-Three - Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain2024-11-13
- 47Chapter Forty-Four - Don't Quit Your Day Job2024-11-13
- 48Chapter Forty-Five - Murder on the Oathkeeper Express2024-11-13
- 49Chapter Forty-Six - No Such Thing as Good News2024-11-13
- 50Chapter Forty-Seven - Elections2024-11-13
- 51Chapter Forty-Eight - Puppets and their Masters2024-11-13
- 52Chapter Forty-Nine - Hurry Up and Wait2024-11-13
- 53Chapter Fifty - Crewman2024-11-13
- 54Bonus Chapter: Kino, Part One - Falmar2024-11-13
- 55Bonus chapter: Kino, Part Two - Hanathue2024-11-13
- 56Bonus chapter: Kino, Part Three - Emerri2024-11-13
- 57Chapter Fifty-One - Yan.2024-11-13
- 58Chapter Fifty-Two - No-Evil2024-11-13
- 59Chapter Fifty-Three - I Don't Want to Die in Here2024-11-13
- 60Chapter Fifty-Four - The Good Doctor2024-11-13
- 61Chapter Fifty-Five - Schemes in a Guilded Age2024-11-13
- 62Chapter Fifty-Six - Meet-Cute2024-11-13
- 63Chapter Fifty-Seven - The Green King and the Silver Flame Attunement2024-11-13
- 64Chapter Fifty-Eight - The Keeper Did a'Hunting Go2024-11-13
- 65Chapter Fifty-Nine - The Road Less-Traveled2024-11-13
- 66Chapter Sixty - The Walls Come Tumblin' Down2024-11-13
- 67Chapter Sixty-One - The Bait in its Trap2024-11-13
- 68Chapter Sixty-Two - San Bernadino Welcomes You2024-11-13
- 69Chapter Sixty-Three - Etta's House2024-11-13
- 70Chapter Sixty-Four - Sid, Master of Understanding2024-11-13
- 71Chapter Sixty-Five - The Loneliest People in the Whole Wide World2024-11-13
- 72Chapter Sixty-Six - In Which Kino Claims She Has No Exploitable Vulnerabilities2024-11-13
- 73Chapter Sixty-Seven - Surgery2024-11-13
- 74Chapter Sixty-Eight - O Ye of Little Faith2024-11-13
- 75Chapter Sixty-Nine - Photographs, Memories, and Spies2024-11-13
- 76Chapter Seventy - Pirate Plots2024-11-13
- 77Chapter Seventy-One - The Mother We Share2024-11-13
- 78Chapter Seventy-Two - 'Tis Better to Have Tried and Failed Than Never Tried at All2024-11-13
- 79Chapter Seventy-Three - Dr. Sylva or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Power2024-11-13
- 80Chapter Seventy-Four - Commitment Actions2024-11-13
- 81Chapter Seventy-Five - A Message Received None Too Soon2024-11-13
- 82Chapter Seventy-Six - A Friend is a Stranger is a Friend2024-11-13
- 83Chapter Seventy-Seven - When Love Is Gone, There's Always Justice2024-11-13
- 84Chapter Seventy-Eight - Condemned to Repeat Forever2024-11-13
- 85Chapter Seventy-Nine - When Justice Is Gone, There's Always Force2024-11-13
- 86Chapter Eighty - Interrogation2024-11-13
- 87Chapter Eighty-One - And When Force Is Gone...2024-11-13
- 88Chapter Eighty-Two - There's Always Mom2024-11-13
- 89Chapter Eighty-Three - The Distance Between the Real and the Ideal2024-11-13
- 90Chapter Eighty-Four - The Cliff of the Future, the Darkness of the Past2024-11-13
- 91Chapter Eighty-Five - The God of the Gaps2024-11-13
- 92Chapter Eighty-Six - All Of Us Pirates Would Have Been Martyrs, Part III2024-11-13
- 93Chapter Eighty-Seven - Zesa2024-11-13
- 94Chapter Eighty-Eight - If I Forget You, Israel, Let Me Forget My Left Hand2024-11-13
- 95Chapter Eighty-Nine - Clemency for the Wizard Kino2024-11-13
- 96(Reading/Abridgement Guide) Act Two: The Realms of the Unreal2024-11-13
- 97Chapter Ninety - The Choices We Must Live With2024-11-13
- 98Chapter Ninety-One - The Interior of Aymon's Heart2024-11-13
- 99Chapter Ninety-Two - A Negative Peace2024-11-13
- 100Chapter Ninety-Three - O Captain My Captain2024-11-13
- 101Chapter Ninety-Four - Can't Trust A Spy, or a Friend2024-11-13
- 102Chapter Ninety-Five - Funeral Codes / Funeral Rites2024-11-13
- 103Chapter Ninety-Six - The Left Hand of Darkness2024-11-13
- 104Chapter Ninety-Seven - The Friend of My Enemy2024-11-13
- 105Chapter Ninety-Eight - The Cracks Too Small to Slip Through2024-11-13
- 106Chapter Ninety-Nine - In Which Our Heroes Discuss the Plan2024-11-13
- 107Bonus Chapter - What Yan Wrote2024-11-13
- 108Chapter One Hundred - Fire to the Sun2024-11-13
- 109Chapter One Hundred One - Confess the Murder2024-11-13
- 110Chapter One Hundred Two - Quid Pro Quo2024-11-13
- 111Chapter One Hundred Three - In My Thoughts and in My Words2024-11-13
- 112Chapter One Hundred Four - All the Lonely People2024-11-13
- 113Chapter One Hundred Five - A Tiny Moment of Respite2024-11-13
- 114Chapter One Hundred Six - Eleventh Song: Song of the Stranger2024-11-13
- 115The Home of the Past - Part One2024-11-13
- 116Chapter One Hundred Seven - The Gom Jabbar2024-11-13
- 117The Home of the Past - Part Two2024-11-13
- 118The Home of the Past - Part Three2024-11-13
- 119Chapter One Hundred Eight - "It's like we're in the beginning of a buddy cop movie."2024-11-13
- 120Chapter One Hundred Nine - Daughters of Hungry Ghosts2024-11-13
- 121Chapter One Hundred Ten - Bless the Arrows that Strike Us Where We Stand2024-11-13
- 122Chapter One Hundred Eleven - The Tragic Accident2024-11-13
- 123Chapter One Hundred Twelve - Phone Tag2024-11-13
- 124Chapter One Hundred Thirteen - The Business of Lying2024-11-13
- 125Chapter One Hundred Fourteen - Drone Swarm Tactics2024-11-13
- 126Chapter One Hundred Fifteen - Geiersburg Fortress2024-11-13
- 127Chapter One Hundred Sixteen - Hombres. Sailors. Comrades.2024-11-13
- 128Chapter One Hundred Seventeen - Orange Ball of Pain2024-11-13
- 129Chapter One Hundred Eighteen - The Better Angels of Our Nature2024-11-13
- 130Chapter One Hundred Nineteen - The Most Fragile Thing of All2024-11-13
- 131Chapter One Hundred Twenty - A Fariskian Bargain2024-11-13
- 132Song of the Stranger, Part II2024-11-13