As Yet Unsent

Captain Judith Deuteros, an officer of the Second House Cohort, is a prisoner of the insurgent group Blood of Eden. In secret she writes a report on her captivity, and the text arrives as excerpts, broken into fragmentary entries.

As her body weakens, Judith studies the people who hold her and tries to make sense of them. Her notes also follow the radicalization of Crown Princess Coronabeth Tridentarius and the tangled history between Judith and Camilla Hect.

Memories keep breaking into the record: her former cavalier, and her childhood among the Tridentarii. The form is a patchwork of recollection, observation and decline rather than a continuous narrative.

The story belongs to Tamsyn Muir's Locked Tomb universe and sits between Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth. It first appeared in the trade paperback of Harrow the Ninth, and Tor.com later put it online at no cost. Anyone who has not yet read Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth will struggle to follow it by itself.