One tide-cycle of Odonata, ticked over on 2026-10-31: the Crystal Fen, the Glass-Wing Spires and the Mist-Veiled Canopies, in an account somebody on a silk gondola might have given. Odonata keeps its own count of time, by the Great Migration, and a page that moves by days cannot carry a count that moves by decades — so the numbering here is the kingdom's tide-calendar, borrowed and said so, and the Migration's count stays Odonata's own. Where Odonata lies from the kingdom, the record does not say, and neither does this page.
The chronicle
- Tide 1 · storm — a storm went over the fen; the gondolas tied to the reed-stalks; nothing flew from the Spires.
- Tide 2 · a breeze in the reeds — the Needle-Mages shaped the water back off the reed-stalks after the storm; silk gondolas on the channels.
- Tide 3 · a breeze in the reeds — two Prism-Weavers disputed a territory over the Crystal Fen, in colour, and one gave way; the Canopies closed in mist.
- Tide 4 · still — the Naiad-Kin's lights under the water, moving.
- Tide 5 · wind through the Spires — silk gondolas on the channels.
- Tide 6 · a breeze in the reeds — the mist did not lift from the Canopies.
- Tide 7 · a breeze in the reeds — a reed-stalk creaked under a city, and the city did not mind.
- Tide 8 · a breeze in the reeds — two Prism-Weavers disputed a territory over the Mist-Veiled Canopies, in colour, and one gave way; the mist lifted off the Canopies.
- Tide 9 · still — the Canopies closed in mist.
- Tide 10 · wind through the Spires — nothing anyone would tell.
- Tide 11 · wind through the Spires — the mist lifted off the Canopies.
- Tide 12 · wind through the Spires — the mist did not lift from the Canopies.
- Tide 13 · still — the Canopies closed in mist.
- Tide 14 · a breeze in the reeds — a Prism-Weaver left the Crystal Fen for the Mist-Veiled Canopies; a Prism-Weaver left the Mist-Veiled Canopies for the Glass-Wing Spires; the high hunters out over the Spires.
- Tide 15 · wind through the Spires — the moss lit the channels and nothing moved on them.
- Tide 16 · wind through the Spires — a gondola went up the channel faster than the water, with a Needle-Mage in the stern.
- Tide 17 · still — silk gondolas on the channels; the Naiad-Kin's lights under the water, moving.
- Tide 18 · wind through the Spires — the mist lifted off the Canopies.
- Tide 19 · a breeze in the reeds — a reed-stalk creaked under a city, and the city did not mind.
- Tide 20 · a breeze in the reeds — silk gondolas on the channels.
- Tide 21 · a breeze in the reeds — a Prism-Weaver left the Glass-Wing Spires for the Mist-Veiled Canopies; the bottom-dwellers came up in the still water, and the Naiad-Kin's lights went down to meet them.
- Tide 22 · a breeze in the reeds — a Prism-Weaver left the Glass-Wing Spires for the Mist-Veiled Canopies.
- Tide 23 · a breeze in the reeds — wings somewhere over the fen, too fast to count.
- Tide 24 · wind through the Spires — silk gondolas on the channels; the Canopies closed in mist.
- Tide 25 · wind through the Spires — the Spires stood in the air, as they do.
- Tide 26 · wind through the Spires — silk gondolas on the channels.
- Tide 27 · still — the bottom-dwellers came up in the still water, and the Naiad-Kin's lights went down to meet them.
- Tide 28 · a breeze in the reeds — colour went across a Prism-Weaver's wings and back, and meant something to another.
After the cycle
- the Crystal Fen lumen-moss 78 prism-weavers 7 bottom-dwellers 89 cast shells on the reeds 0
- the Glass-Wing Spires prism-weavers 4 high hunters 7
- the Mist-Veiled Canopies prism-weavers 6 closed in mist
Who does what
- grows — what everything else lives on: the lumen-moss
- hunts — and keeps the feeders in check: high hunters
- holds — a territory, which everything else is built around: prism-weavers