◉ BASTION

Yuki Aritomo

Chapters

Arc I — Arrival

01Position FixPD 606 · the Cathedral Sebastinum, Sebastopyr · the first 3-5 minutes after the rite closedThe rain came with her. The cold is in the cloth. She fixes the floor before she looks up — keystone-aligned slabs, brass nail-lines, seven steps from dais to floor as geometry not yet traveled. The Lay on Hands buys a margin, not a cure. Her first word in this world is 'thank you.'▶ listen02The GeographyPD 606 · the Cathedral Sebastinum, Sebastopyr · minutes 5-15 after the rite closedHe descends in seven shallow steps; she counts them as traveled-by-him this time, not as geometry. Sebastopyr lands as a coordinate before it lands as a word. Her name comes fourth — 'a point set in the grid: not decorative, not sentimental, just fixed. Surveyors learn what a fixed point can do.' She accepts the dry wrap. The cold has not vanished. It has simply lost ground.▶ listen

Arc I — The Summoning

01Three MinutesPD 606 · Day 2 · 06:50 → 21:14 — the cathedral district map-room, the alley, the second junction, six bodies that would have been theirsShe gave the watchman a number. He believed it because she did not soften it. The carts and the lantern-rig went in at the alley mouth and six men came through the breach behind them and got nowhere. She did not see it happen. She was reading the next map.▶ listen