“The vault lamps blinked in threes last night. The Firefly swears it wasn't him.”
Something in the Carapace vaults is learning to communicate — and it knows counting.

“Buprestid light-catchers line the Carapace vaults.”
A Prism creature of House Carapace
3 known connections · an open question
A bullet of emerald and copper. The buprestid light-catchers line the Carapace vaults, and every glint in the dark is one of them on patrol.
One light-catcher has been found asleep on duty twice this week — unheard of. He claims the vault lights have started flickering in patterns.
If the vault lights are signaling, the question is who taught them the code — and whether the Jewel Beetles are reading it or writing it. The light-catchers have started arriving at the Red Moment Vault in pairs, which they only do when they expect to be questioned.
“The vault lamps blinked in threes last night. The Firefly swears it wasn't him.”
Something in the Carapace vaults is learning to communicate — and it knows counting.
Beetles. The armored nobility. They hold the Iron Gate and the vaults beneath the Husk Cathedral, where light itself is kept in buprestid-lined coffers.
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