Editing The Sea of Spines

{{Character|title1=The Sea of Spines|image1=Fluke.png|caption1=A dream of Axile.|location=[[Parabola]], or elsewhere in the Is-Not|allegiance=[[Axile]]}}<blockquote>''"The water is full of chemical thoughts, memories of even more ancient times and more primitive forms."''<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Dream_with_the_others|Dream with the others|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>'''The Sea of Spines''' is an ocean of [[apocyan]] waters<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Tell_the_Viscountess_about_the_Sea_of_Spines|Tell the Viscountess about the Sea of Spines|Fallen London|}}''"You describe the apocyan waves; the memories that drift in the water; the recollection of many earlier evolutions."''</ref> somewhere in the Is-Not,<ref name=":2">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Lead_an_expedition_to_the_Sea_of_Spines|Lead an expedition to the Sea of Spines|Fallen London|}}''"It is a distant, dark corner of the Is-Not. [...] in a place where the Skin of the Sun has entirely receded beneath the horizon, where there is no distinction between the black water below and the starless sky above, you descend."''</ref> possibly outside [[Parabola]].<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Look_into_the_glassy_water|Look into the glassy water|Fallen London|}} ''"You stare across the water mirror – not into the water, but into some deep recess of the Is-Not. There, you see no dreams, only memories. Memories of warmth and song, of contentment and joy, of a sea more sunless that welcomes the body like a familial embrace. Each memory is a spiralling body of delicate colours – flayed and stuck on violant spines of bitter anger."''</ref> It is made from the dreams of [[Flukes]] and [[Rubbery Men]]<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Upstairs_Honey_Den|The Upstairs Honey Den|Fallen London|}}''"They say that honey-sippers in Helicon House can find their way into the dream-places of Rubbery Men – not by the Viric Jungle, but by the Sea of Spines."''</ref> and reflects their memories of their lost planet of [[Axile]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Dream_with_the_others|Dream with the others|Fallen London|}} ''"The surface of the ocean is above you; the light that comes through is dappled viric and apocyan. [...] The water is full of chemical thoughts, memories of even more ancient times and more primitive forms."''</ref> While this region is most easily accessible to Rubbery Men, humans may find themselves there on rare<ref name=":1" /> and usually guided occasions,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Offer_yourself_as_escort_and_guide|Offer yourself as escort and guide|Fallen London|}}''"You have visited the Sea of Spines before. You know how to return, even when you arms have become spines and a shell has formed round your body."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Lead_an_expedition_to_the_Sea_of_Spines|Lead an expedition to the Sea of Spines|Fallen London|}} ''"The water is saturated with memory, and the deeper you go, the more ancient the memory. You and the client share a dark recollection of dying on the surface of an ocean under twin moons."''</ref> where they receive glimpses of Axile.

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