alicehandle quoted A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #2)
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with …
(Which one of them had she fucked, last night? Which one of them had brought a long that strange, lovely graphic story with lines like it's precious but it's not a memory and I'm everything you need?)
(Did she really want to know? Probably not.)
— A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #2) (Page 384)
Ok the sequel is nowhere near as enjoyable in these matters as the previous installation but it is kind of funny that Three Seagrass is panicking over whether or not she fucked her girlfriend's headmate or not because Mahit is being insufferably egocentric and uncommunicative about her plurality