Season 14 · Episode 1

The deep side. The small ones have made a game of the stones on the line, and the warm has a telling it has never told to anyone who was not already told. Stone-First brings that thought down and the warm argues it: which telling, who tells it, and whether the line is a place you can tell from at all. Then the last thing, how people who wait for as long as a hand can be kept for a telling, which the warm cannot go round, and which an old one finally finds in the middle of the warm, in a game, under the smallest one's hand; and the smallest one has a name. Then the one act, from the deep side: Stone-First keeps a hand on the rock, the smallest of the up-people does not go, and the telling of their own first stone is told to them from the line, while the whole warm lies still below for a stone that has not spoken.

• S14E01C01 Nobody CameFliade — the warm below the roof, the foot of the shelving, and the line at the top of the marginThe small ones of the Told have made the manners into a game at the foot of the shelving: a line of their own, one of them standing on it the way Stone-First stands, a stone moved once and a step back, and everyone waiting for the ground to say someone is coming. Nobody comes. Carried-It-Sleeping stops it, because a stone is moved for someone. Went-Round asks to see it played, and goes round to the beginning of the manners. On the line, Stone-First-Who-Waited hears the ground say someone over and over from below, knows who it is this time, and thinks about what every time has always meant.
• S14E01C02 Not a Place You Tell FromFliade — the warm below the roof, and the line at the top of the marginStone-First-Who-Waited comes down on a time when nothing happened and says the kept thought standing up: the telling of the up-people's first stone has been heard by everyone below the roof except the ones who were there for it. The warm argues it, which the Told are getting better at. Went-Round asks who was there. Carried-It-Sleeping says the humming stone was, and it was asleep. The warm settles which telling and who tells it, and cannot settle where, because Stone-First says the line is not a place you tell from, and nobody has ever told from it to say otherwise. Then the small ones play their game in front of Stone-First for the first time, and the one on the line says who knocked.
• S14E01C03 Keeps a Hand on ItFliade — the warm below the roof, and the line at the top of the marginStone-First-Who-Waited comes down a second time and says one short thing: the up-people wait for as long as it takes a hand to be filled, and a telling is longer than a hand. The warm tries telling it short, and telling it in pieces, and gets nowhere. Went-Round goes all the way round it and comes back without a far side, for the first time in a whole telling. Then an old one, waiting for the smallest to move a stone like everyone else, says what the whole warm has been doing all season without being told: a stone that is going to speak is a thing you wait for, and it is waited for as long as the hand is on it. The saying goes round, and a name goes round with it.
• S14E01C04 Been ToldFliade — the line at the top of the margin, the squeeze, and the warm below the roofThe one act, from the deep side. The up-people's stone comes down at the start of a working time, and Stone-First-Who-Waited puts a hand on the answering rock and keeps it there, and the smallest of the up-people, who has gone when the stone spoke on every working time for two years, waits for as long as a hand and then does not go. Stone-First tells it from the line, bent to the rock, the telling of the up-people's own first stone, leaving nothing out, to the one it was about, and moves the stone at the end. Below, the whole warm goes still for a stone that has not spoken, the game stopped under Keeps-A-Hand-On-It's hand, until the ground says someone from the line. The oldest thing anyone below the roof knew stops being true. Nobody records what was said, because it was told.