as fun as it is to imagine that Mars is the Condesce’s pet moon (hey. if Caliborn can carry his planets around in his eyeballs, what if that’s what the pink gem in the Condesce’s crown is), interpreting the text based on extratextual elements like a NASA photograph of Mars is such shaky ground… if we accept that the pink moon is Mars because it “looks like” Mars, then what does it mean when the climax reveals LOWAS is just a blue tinted moon