(Now I must immediately preface this that I come from a lingual tradition that’s more associated with Eastern European and of the Global Periphery (Non-Western) than Western Works of literature. Albeit I have a double preface that I stopped reading Western works beyond 1980s with rare few occasions (thus meaning I know my damn Beowulf along with my Knights of the Round Table along to my GWF Hegel and Langston Hughes). But this should be enough prefacing and making sense of what I shall get into when I type my response below.)

So let’s start with the story and keep in my mind that I have jumped into part ten without reading the parts before. So I inderstand enough and like the conflict of philosophies (and attitudes that imply a deeper sense of urgencies) all along the entry here. From the spouse relationship, to the Meta just waiting for humans to just shut up to then herself(?) having not the words to speak (very much a Freudian slip of the Tongue here of wanting something but not knowing how to respond to achieving something) to the random inclusion of the child flying off. No biggie, we got an example of world building interwoven with the progress of the story. (Now I know not if everyone’s on the same page, but following the grandfather clause I purposefully employ here, I shall believe what they know up to this point due to finally possessing it or in the process to do so.) Of course, I dunno how often the conspiracy was stressed before this point, but I did get the feeling of urgency and accept the eventual reveal of why the Meta even interacted with these two to begin with.

Unto the structure of the story: very much dialogue-bounded, good way to avoid the show and don’t tell rule. Though I would love my levels of telling on occasions, just so the reader can relax (but dunno if you’ve done it before this point). Withal (Even so), the dialouge seems appropriate but can’t be sure to be quite honest. Moving on, this definitely, despite a move inside the story and a set-down narrative builder episode, felt like a convenient world-building episode. Yet I shan’t remark because it might be justified at this point and may make sense to build the World now so as to repaint earlier scenes and give options for the writer to exploit as they tell the story. Regardless, since (as I say this like a broken record) I haven’t read before I shall accept the underlying World-building stratum and it does feel appropriate with how it’s being developed (and thankfully not used as a tool to tell a story this earlier on). To make a side derail on the characters, I get that the Meta aspect but I do wonder if the story is focused on Mira/Meta or the humans; while I might not mind as long as the humans do get to be coupled with the Metas, I feel this story is appropriate for the Metas to see these two humans and lement having to deal with children of species. Especially when they have to deal witn a darned conspiracy that sounds like an extinction-level event.