'Without Language there can be no Wordes. Without Wordes there can be no Message. But only in Silence can there be no Error; and Lo, even in that Beginning, in that First of Messages, was an Error. Thus did we enter the HOUSE OF THE SUNNE.'
- Julian Cosely, 'The Vanquish'd Cross'
'Without Language there can be no Wordes. Without Wordes there can be no Message. But only in Silence can there be no Error; and Lo, even in that Beginning, before the Conclusion of that First of Messages, was an Error. Thus did we enter the Upper Part of the House of the Sun - '
- Julian Coseley, 'The Fallen Cross'

Remember our ancestors, when Bird and Worm were one.

Not many in Noon now consider themselves Birds of a Feather, but fewer still will say they're Worms of a Scale.
Most come to Noon to remain apart. But there are those who work to ensure the war is won as they would wish it. St David's Key, the Biting Key, the Forest Key, among many others, are their weapons and their prizes. Their messages pass in secret among those who Know and those who do not.

There was insufficient time for the Terrible Ones, or for the Carapace Cross. Each fire has its fuel, and perhaps we are all of us fuel in the end.

o Demeter, who dwelleth in the earth, who sends up gifts, who art the mare who destroyeth in mercy, in thy name we beseech thee: commend us to thy sister

Salt: I knew a woman who would walk the beach at night to watch the road the moon offered across the waves. On her final night, she took that road.

Hydrae: History is the scar on the world’s neck.

There is no return for those who have committed the Crime of the Sky, but sometimes there is respite.

The Biting Key was known in an age before other gods. It is found only in the presence of monsters.
The Mare's Key opens the door that leads Nowhere. It is employed only with the best intentions. // The Mare's Key opens a door that leads Nowhere, but never the same door twice. It can be employed only with the best intentions.
The Flaying Key was present at the birth of all the gods-from-Blood. For the Key to occur, a black pig must be sacrificed.
When housed in ivory, the Key of David can be used to open the White Door. It requires a rarer house to open the Summit Gate. The Sea-Born has been known to wield it.
The Key of Days opens the Tricuspid Gate. All the gods-from-Light have employed it. At the Crossroads, it may sometimes be invoked.

The Princes owned the Key of Night, and their daughter holds it still. // The Princes owned the Key of Night, and their daughter holds it still. It only ever opens one door... but sometimes it opens it the other way.
The Stag Door opens to the Forest Key, but there is another door that Key opens, deep in the Wood.

这几条描述了现任丽姬亚的成员
There have always been seven, but not always the same seven, and it has not always been the Ligeia Club. It is very rare for the seven to meet in convocation, but now and then it occurs[.]
[Echidna:] The gods-who-were-Stone knew the uses of the Biting Key, and now Echidna claims it. She has birthed so many children, and some yet survive.
[Klêidouchos:] She has known all the Keys, but now she holds the Key of Days. She it was who opened the door the Watchman passed. She meets the Vagabond each
year in Vienna.
[Marinette:] So young, so hungry. All her
children cannot slake her thirst. When Moth rose, another held the Flaying Key, but at the Grail's bidding did Marinette consume that she.
[<secret>:] She holds the Mare's Key, which opens the door to Nowhere. Now and then, she has lent it unwisely.
[<secret>:] Sea-born, tide-drawn. She is jealous of the key of black sapphire, but so many times it has fled her. Of all her kind, she knows the House of the Moon best. Meniscate-sister, Witch-lover.
[Medusa:] She might be the oldest of her kind still living; and she is dead. Once she held the key to the door in the Wood.
[Sulochana:] Her father came from the Fifth History, but she was born here, and here she brews her venoms. She is constant in her friendship; sometimes, she withholds her poisons. Since she became what she now is, she has ceased to dislike cats.

The Locksmith's Dream: Incursus
"The Law goes back all the way to Stone: the Keys cannot be held or owned. This had, I believe, the unexpected consequence that those outside the law may hold and own them. But even they cannot keep them. And of course a Key is no more physical than a spirit. But a spirit may be housed in a body, and I have touched a Key with my own hands.

That time - I remember that the matter of Vienna came up, and young M. was incivil to K. - she made an oblique joke about feathers; she called her 'Pandora'. K. left early[.]"
<secret> was my secret name. It's not real. Names aren't, any more than souls, or words. Bodies are real, the world is real, and the Hours are real. Your secret name is <secret>. Be careful whom you tell.

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