Setting
The story takes place in multiple settings, switching from character to character as well as place to place. Mer's story takes place in Saint-Domingue, during the late 17th century. It is a time when French colonization was taking place and slaves were used on plantations to harvest crops for trade.
Jeanne's story takes place in Paris and Neuilly, France during the 1840s.
Thais' story is set in Alexandria, Egypt and Aelia Capitolina, or Jerusalem, during 345 C.E..
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“something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,”
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“May we two stand,
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A little from other shades apart,
With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.”
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