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The Mime Order

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The Mime Order	comment	The Mime Order is the 2015 sequel to Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season, and the second book in a series of seven installments. Set in a Dystopian, Alternate History England, the story follows a young clairvoyant woman named Paige Mahoney. Since 1859, when the phenomenon of clairvoyance first became public knowledge, England has operated under an oppressive and strongly anti-voyant government called Scion. Paige belongs to a class of criminal voyants who use their contact with spirits and the spirit world (called the æther) to make a living while avoiding the authorities. She is a rare kind of voyant known as a dreamwalker, capable of separating her spirit from her physical body and entering the æther in spirit form.Paige has escaped from the penal colony of Sheol I and returned to London. She can't forget what she learned in Oxford: that Scion is a puppet government controlled by the Rephaim, a race of supernatural creatures whose aim is to colonize the human world. Her only hope is the syndicate, an organized underground society of clairvoyants presided over by the Unnatural Assembly. If she can rouse them out of their petty disputes and backstage murders, they could start to fight back against the empire that's been systematically destroying voyants for two hundred years.But Paige is public enemy number one and the most-wanted person in the citadel. If she wants to stay alive and out of Scion's clutches, she'll have to seek the protection of her old mime-lord, Jaxon Hall — a man who has no intention of letting her act independently of his wishes.If you're looking for one of the other books in the series, see the links below: The Bone Season The Song Rising The Mask FallingTo return to the general page for the Bone Season series, click here.For character-specific tropes, please go to the character page for this series.
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The Mime Order / int_131650cb	type	If I Wanted X, I Would Y
The Mime Order / int_131650cb	comment	If I Wanted X, I Would Y: When Paige tells the Ranthen that uniting the syndicate will require extensive funding, they start waxing lyrical about how greedy and obsessed with money humans are. She cuts them short, exasperated: "If I'd wanted lectures, I would have gone to the university."
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The Mime Order / int_16365fa0	type	You Fool!
The Mime Order / int_16365fa0	comment	You Fool!: When Jaxon learns that Paige tried to call a meeting of the Unnatural Assembly, he doesn't mince words.
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The Mime Order / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
The Mime Order / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The basis of the scrimmage. When choosing a new syndicate leader, all contenders must fight one another in a kind of arena called the Rose Ring, mêlée-style. Last one standing gets the crown.
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The Mime Order / int_1d029135	type	Fictional Document
The Mime Order / int_1d029135	comment	Fictional Document: One of the major plot points of the book is The Rephaite Revelation, a penny dreadful written by the Bone Season survivors to spread knowledge of the Rephaim throughout London. Since no one will believe them if they claim to be telling the truth, Paige decides that the next best option is to pass it off as fiction; after all, fictional things — such as how to kill a vampire — can just as easily become common knowledge.
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The Mime Order / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Mime Order / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Paige at Chateline's diner, when she realizes she's going to have to seek Terebell's patronage for the publication of the penny dreadful.
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The Mime Order / int_25101d1a	type	Post-Victory Collapse
The Mime Order / int_25101d1a	comment	Post-Victory Collapse: An exhausted Paige passes out after winning the scrimmage, exposing the gray market and uniting the syndicate all in one go.
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The Mime Order / int_2c7dc9c6	type	No One Should Survive That!
The Mime Order / int_2c7dc9c6	comment	No One Should Survive That!: The Unnatural Assembly has this reaction when Paige is attacked by Nashira's poltergeist, one more powerful than anything they had ever seen, and gets off without a scratch. Particularly the Abbess, who mouths the word "Impossible." Afterward, some voyants start calling Paige a thaumaturge, seeing no other explanation for how she could have withstood such a terrible spirit.
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The Mime Order / int_327b5216	type	Black Market
The Mime Order / int_327b5216	comment	Black Market: The voyants have one in Covent Garden, which sells everything from numa to forgeries to death-related bric-a-brac.
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The Mime Order / int_384986f4	type	We Will Meet Again
The Mime Order / int_384986f4	comment	We Will Meet Again: Jaxon says as much after the scrimmage.
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The Mime Order / int_39ff7ffb	type	Change the Uncomfortable Subject
The Mime Order / int_39ff7ffb	comment	Change the Uncomfortable Subject: Played for Laughs when Warden remarks that although he was her consort for two hundred years, he and Nashira were never "formally joined."
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The Mime Order / int_40207000	type	Never Going Back to Prison
The Mime Order / int_40207000	comment	Never Going Back to Prison: When two Rephaim ambush Paige near Seven Dials, she decides immediately that she will never return to the penal colony, no matter what.
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The Mime Order / int_43844bd7	type	You Fight Like a Cow
The Mime Order / int_43844bd7	comment	You Fight Like a Cow: Paige and Jaxon banter while doing their level best to thrash each other in the Rose Ring. Their drama-hungry audience eats it up.
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The Mime Order / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Mime Order / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Paige and Alfred observe a woman absorbed in a penny dreadful, totally unaware of her surroundings.
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The Mime Order / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
The Mime Order / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Two of Hector's cronies do this to Paige when they ambush her in I Cohort, as does the unfortunate guard to Warden's cell. On the former occasion, it's nine against one, and she doesn't have much choice but to take it. On the latter occasion, she gets her own back and then some.
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The Mime Order / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When he wins the scrimmage, Jaxon stands basking in the adulation of the Unnatural Assembly for a while as they shower him with flowers and applause. Then the mistress of ceremonies asks if anyone knows of any reason he shouldn't be Underlord, and Paige says, "Actually, I do." Just like that, the jubilant mood evaporates and a dumbstruck silence falls on the room. What she says next hammers it home: "I'm Black Moth. And I challenge you, White Binder."
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The Mime Order / int_53fd0a77	type	Out of the Frying Pan
The Mime Order / int_53fd0a77	comment	Out of the Frying Pan: The transition from Sheol I to Scion London turns out to be extremely perilous for the Bone Season survivors. First, they are greeted at the Tower of London by the Guard Extraordinary, who cut their numbers down by more than half; second, they are declared preternatural fugitives and made the focus of a citywide manhunt; third, the London syndicate not only won't shield them but actively hurts them. For those who don't have a mime-lord's protection or a support system to fall back on, London turns out to be just as dangerous as Oxford ever was. Paige herself remarks bitterly that she has taken them from one hell to another.
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The Mime Order / int_553aaabe	type	Safety in Indifference
The Mime Order / int_553aaabe	comment	Safety in Indifference: Invoked by Chat when a frustrated Paige asks him why most voyants never even think about fighting back against Scion.
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The Mime Order / int_598b0106	type	And Here He Comes Now
The Mime Order / int_598b0106	comment	And Here He Comes Now: In her address to the Unnatural Assembly, Paige is just about to drop the bombshell that Scion is nothing more than a façade for Rephaite control when Warden and his allies show up out of nowhere, causing a shockwave of amazement and disbelief. It's unclear if the Ranthen's arrival just coincided with her speech or if they were listening the whole time, waiting for the perfect moment to make a dramatic entrance.
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The Mime Order / int_67a7cd88	type	Battle in the Center of the Mind
The Mime Order / int_67a7cd88	comment	Battle in the Center of the Mind: A particularly dramatic one when Paige throws herself into Jaxon's dreamscape in the scrimmage, fighting her way through his "specters" to get to the sunlit zone. She manages to take possession of his body and make it speak the words of surrender, but his spirit fights her for every inch, furiously howling about how ungrateful she is for betraying him and how she would be nothing without him.
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The Mime Order / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Mime Order / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: During one of their many disagreements about what to do about the Rephaite presence in London, Jaxon asks Paige why she suddenly wants to fight back against Scion after years of being happy to keep her head down, like him.
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The Mime Order / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Mime Order / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: After freeing Warden from the Camden catacombs, Paige leaves him a note that cheekily reprises one he left her back in Sheol I:
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The Mime Order / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Mime Order / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Nell gets halfway through telling Warden to go fuck himself when Nick interrupts her.
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The Mime Order / int_7aea8bae	type	Murder Ballad
The Mime Order / int_7aea8bae	comment	Murder Ballad: Jos sings one about Queen Victoria and her son, the Bloody King, who was blamed for the Ripper murders.
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The Mime Order / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
The Mime Order / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Paige delivers one to Jaxon during the scrimmage, right before taking possession of his body and making him surrender on his knees. Later, Gomeisa Sargas makes an impressive speech to Paige in the Westminster Archon, talking about how powerful the Sargas family is, how their influence is as deeply rooted as an anchor in the earth. She responds with another Badass Boast of her own.
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The Mime Order / int_927d046a	type	Accidental Pun
The Mime Order / int_927d046a	comment	Accidental Pun: In the chandlery, after the Emite attack, Paige goes looking for a "bed-warmer" to help her sleep, meaning a heated mattress pad or something of the like. She finds Warden instead.
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The Mime Order / int_953626a3	type	Literalist Snarking
The Mime Order / int_953626a3	comment	Literalist Snarking: Danica (who often stays cooped up in her room, working on various projects) does this when Nick asks her what she's even living on up there.
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The Mime Order / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
The Mime Order / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: Lotte, just before being hanged in a public broadcast, breaks her bindings to scream a last defiant message into the camera.
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The Mime Order / int_9fbf92c3	type	Creator Career Self-Deprecation
The Mime Order / int_9fbf92c3	comment	Creator Career Self-Deprecation: When they speak at the coffeehouse, Alfred tells Paige, with feeling, "It can be absolutely unbearable to be surrounded by writers every day. Ghastly lot."
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The Mime Order / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
The Mime Order / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: Paige gets one after beating Jaxon Hall in a ferocious duel and becoming the youngest Underqueen in the history of the London syndicate. To make it even more sensational, she follows this up by exposing the Rag and Bone Man's conspiracy, introducing everyone to the Ranthen and declaring war on Scion.
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The Mime Order / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
The Mime Order / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: When Paige does battle with Jaxon in the Rose Ring, she fights until she literally can't stand anymore, bleeding everywhere and exhausted from all the jumps she's made out of her body. Even then, she keeps throwing herself at his dreamscape, knowing that it's all over if she doesn't win.
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The Mime Order / int_b475abfb	type	Gut Feeling
The Mime Order / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: Nick tells Paige that he has a bad feeling about her plans for the scrimmage. Paige quips back that clairvoyants are supposed to have bad feelings about things. Paige herself tries to pull this on Eliza, to ask her for help without giving away her own involvement with the penny dreadful. Eliza calls her out on it.
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The Mime Order / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: When the Rephaim arrive on the scene, Didion Waite doesn't buy it right away.
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The Mime Order / int_d7e68c39	comment	Bulletproof Human Shield: When the Abbess tries to shoot Paige, the Ranthen shield her with their own bodies, protecting their new ally/investment/key human associate. They don't take any permanent damage, being made of stronger stuff than human flesh.
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The Mime Order / int_d952cef0	comment	Killing in Self-Defense: When two of the Rag and Bone Man's underlings ambush Paige late at night, on orders to drag her off and cut her throat, she kills one with her spirit — a mechanical impulse of self-preservation that she couldn't have suppressed if she'd tried.
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The Mime Order / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: After Terebell orders Warden to train Paige for the scrimmage, he remarks that she never specified the manner in which he was to train her. He turns the lesson into a dance, the closest thing to a formal romantic overture he has ever made where Paige is concerned.
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The Mime Order / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
The Mime Order / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Apart from the Seven Seals, twenty-two people made it onto the train from Sheol I. Many were killed by the Guard Extraordinary at the Tower of London. One of the survivors of that ambush got captured and tortured by the Archon; another is publicly hanged at the end of the book. All told, there are now just five human survivors of Bone Season XX: Ivy, Jos, Felix, Nell, and Paige herself ... six, if you count Michael.
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The Mime Order / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
The Mime Order / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: Played for Drama. After the botched Bicentenary, Nashira spreads the word among her fellow Rephaim that her former consort "degrades himself with humans," an extremely serious offense in their society. Demeaning language aside, it's all true. Paige has to deny the charges to Terebell before they can start working together.
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The Mime Order / int_ff5b39d0	comment	Nobody Calls Me "Chicken"!: Jaxon tries to undermine Paige's claim to the crown in the Rose Ring by reminding the Unnatural Assembly that she's a murder suspect and a wanted fugitive. Then she calls him a coward, and his whole demeanor changes into one of Tranquil Fury. When she challenges him again, he accepts with poisonous gentility.
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