How It All Goes Down
Lyda (Metal Tubes)
- We are finally shifted back to our fourth narrator for now: Lyda. She's being bathed by the mothers.
- Recently, Illia has been telling a story about the woman and the man.
- Lyda is told to fully submerge herself in the bath; it's filled with a serum that masks the human scent.
- Illia's bath is water because she won't be traveling with Lyda. Illia needs rest.
- Lyda remembers her mother saying, Your father has passed on.
- In Illia's story, a woman works as the keeper of knowledge and a man told her to protect the seed of truth, which would grow into the next world.
- The woman and man loved each other, but the man is going to die (yep: this is in the present tense).
- But the woman must survive because she is the keeper of knowledge. She then marries someone who has connections so that the seed of truth can live.
- Then she says, "The End is coming," which is creepy. But she's referring to the Detonations. (5.32)
- Oh, and the man with connections is Ingership. And Illia's the keeper of knowledge. Yeah.
- Illia starts flopping out in her tub, getting angry and saying she couldn't deliver the truth to dead people. She starts muttering to herself about missing the truth and missing art and wanting to die.
- Lyda is totally rattled so she submerges her head under the serum for some quiet time.