“nona the ninth should have been the intro to alecto” to YOU. i think becoming intimately acquainted with the people especially children of this setting and the struggles they face and the ways in which their priorities are small and intimate and far removed from the galaxy-shattering events happening to and around them and then watching as the protagonist and her loved ones are wrenched away from their tenuous peace due to forces and history that have been out of their control for 10000 years is does necessitate like 500 pages actually