The Rule of the Still Hour
The rules of the Order open to one already drawn to rest. Read the Rule once your Dissonance passes 25.
How to open it
- Read with the Loupe: Rule of the Still Hour;
dissonance_25 - Notes: The Stillness — 3
- After the entries:
The Order of the Still Hour - Dissonance for study: 2
Pages of the entry
The Rule tells what to expect from the Order: to a workshop where flux runs at twice its riverbed, the Still will come to set a Halt Stone. First rule: all that flows spoils. Second: what is stopped is perfect. Third: the Tempo of the world is a debt, and the Order will collect it. The Rule bids its people wear wax on their lips, for words flow too, and ring a bell with no tongue.
TempoThe Still come into the ordinary world on a round: to a workshop where flux runs at twice its riverbed, a party steps out of a Still Window and sets a Halt Stone; around it water turns to glass and devices stand, until the stone is broken. The Rule calls this mercy.