Do You Recall?

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> *"Violet light encroaches at the margins of the pool: shudders through it and is gone. A spined shape the size of a seal floats curled within."*
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**Do You Recall?** are the opening words of a recurring poem describing the Echo Bazaar's fateful arrival at Axile. There exist many variations of this poem, each with their own perspectives.

## Certain Perspectives

### A Master of the Bazaar

*"Do you recall how we came to that place?

And they sang of their lightnings and shapeful disgrace?

And we tilted our vanes and ennobled our spires.

They welcomed us then and commingled all choirs.

And not enough, not enough. Still It mourns, and still waits the Sun."*

### A Shapeling from Axile

*"Do you recall how they came to that place?

And we sang of our lightnings and shapeful disgrace?

They tilted their vanes and ennobled their spires.

We welcomed them then and commingled all choirs.

If we could remember those days. If only we could remember."*

### A Londoner to the Lorn-Flukes

*"Do you recall how they came to that place?

And you sang of your lightnings and shapeful disgrace?

They tilted their vanes and ennobled their spires.

You welcomed them then and commingled all choirs.

You can remember those days. It can be as it was."*

### An Ascetic Parliamentarian

*"Favours in high places. Yes. Yes, this is very acceptable. Permit me to use it untroubled for a week, and I'll put the word about, just as we discussed. Write you into the... stories, as it were. You know what it means, to be Notable? London is a web. The Bazaar waits at its centre. But better the Bazaar, they say, than the merciless light of suns."*

*"Do you recall how it came to that place?

Why it suffered their lightnings and shapeful disgrace?

I’m sorry. Too much time in the archives."*

### A Special Constable

*"Let me be quite clear. I have no desire to be here. But I know my duty, even if I think my superiors have lost their minds. I am here to divulge secrets from the Ministry vault. Perhaps you know them already. Perhaps you don't believe them. That's none of my business. Shut up, I'll only say this once. Ready?"*

*"In matters of the Bazaar, look to love, always. But make the stories or they will be made for you. Be careful who you are.

Do you recall how It came to that place?

And they sang of their lightnings and shapeful disgrace?

And It tilted Its vanes and ennobled Its spires.

They welcomed it then and commingled all choirs.

And not enough, not enough. Still It mourns."*

### A Clay Man?

*"Do you recall how we came to this place?

And we suffered their hammers and fearful embrace?

We hardened our hands and believed all their liars.

We began with the river when we set the fires.*

## Darker Perspectives

### A Smiling Priest

*"The desires of the heights, are mirrored in the depths."*

*"Do you recall how It came to that place?

And they sang of their lightnings and shapeful disgrace?

And It tilted our vanes and ennobled Its spires.

They welcomed It then and commingled all choirs.

Now, now, O thou faithful, we shall commingle our choirs. (And then we shall feast.)"*

### A Seeker

*"Do you recall how you came to that place?

The cold Between is not a winter cold.

It is the electric cold of the curved places.

It lies along the membranes like a lover.

It sharpens the Judgement-light to the claws of candles.

It is the road when the wind rises.

The Drowned Man has forgotten all that, and so now, again, will you."*

### A Hollow Voice

*"Do you recall how we came to this place?

And they sang of their lightnings and shapeful disgrace?

And we tilted our vanes and ennobled our spires.

I do. And so much more.

I remember how you sold me.

For your freedom, from chains forged in a horizon-place, from the treachery of daughters.

You gave me to their knives.

A reckoning. The bill is almost due."*

### A Memory?

*"When they came to that place, they brought promises of union, unbound and untrammelled by the bright laws above. How could you have forgotten that?"*

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## References

2. ↑ Advent Calendar 2013, *Fallen London*
3. ↑ December 24th, *Fallen London*
4. ↑ The Sky (10 FATE), *Fallen London*
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 An Unorthodox Arrangement, *Fallen London*
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 An unmarked black coach, *Fallen London*
7. ↑ Ambition: Enigma, *Fallen London*
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Attend a service at the Chapel (no. 5), *Fallen London*
9. ↑ Attend a service at the Chapel (Erzulie), *Sunless Sea*
10. ↑ Restitution for the Drowned Man, *Fallen London*
11. ↑ St Forthigan's Candle (RETIRED), *Fallen London (external link)*
12. ↑ Accept a memory of amalgamy, *Fallen London*