Do you see? I am the orchard. We are the orchard. You, too, are the orchard, in a different way from I. It is from all of us that fruits are grown, taken, ground to pulp and left to turn to ash before the never-ending new."
An illiterate scholar - The Keys - and a former priest - The Lantern - climb to the roof of a dying world to reclaim their names. The megastructure that was once their home, and their prison, lies in a state of ruin that is overshadowed only by its enormity. The task before them is vague, concocted in a smoke-drunken haze, but the fruit that it will bear tempts them with all the sweetness of vengeance, marrow, and lust.Both narrating characters are happily, casually psychotic. One has to learn how to get there.
Nonhuman, human, and the overlapping area focus.
Old bisexual ex-priest meets old ex-organ harvesting subject.
Homoerotic limb eating and committing terrorism against a dystopian, authoritarian corporate-state.