I swore off epic similes for the most recent two books, because the underworld is Different.
It's nice to get back to them now.

The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.
'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'
I swore off epic similes for the most recent two books, because the underworld is Different.
It's nice to get back to them now.