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Updraft

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Updraft	label	Updraft
Updraft	page	Updraft
Updraft	comment	Updraft is a 2015 Fantasy novel by Fran Wilde.The book is set in a city comprised entirely of towers of living bone which rise high above the cloud-line, which people travel between using hang-glider-like wings. The protagonist, Kirit Densira, aspires to be a trader like her mother, visiting far-off places and carrying vital supplies, but first has to pass her tests. This is complicated when she ends up on the wrong side of the rules, bringing herself to the attention of the city's secretive protectors, the Singers. Kirit has a rare talent they're interested in, and they're not inclined to let her go. As she gets more and more entangled in the politics of the city and the Singers, she finds out that a lot of things aren't working the way they ought to, and the city's people aren't actually as protected as the Singers would have them believe.
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Updraft / int_12628662	type	The Call Knows Where You Live
Updraft / int_12628662	comment	The Call Knows Where You Live: Kirit doesn't want anything to do with the Singers, and doesn't care that her special talent would be useful to them (and, they say, to the city). However, they make it clear that they'll ruin all her alternatives until she "chooses" to join them.
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Updraft / int_1c169242	type	The Order
Updraft / int_1c169242	comment	The Order: The city doesn't really have a centralised government, but Singers are the protectors of the city and keepers of its Laws. They keep apart from ordinary citizens, and are secretive about their techniques and operations. They're highly identifiable, having silver tattoos, and are both respected and feared. At the end of the book, it's revealed to the world that they've been lying about the protection they provide; to reform the Order, there are going to have to be major changes, including ending its separation from the people it's supposed to serve.
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Updraft / int_39488ea5	type	Mutant Draft Board
Updraft / int_39488ea5	comment	Mutant Draft Board: There isn't any rule saying that people with the ability to repel skymouths have to join the Singers, but Wik makes it clear that alternative plans Kirit might make will be thwarted. This includes declaring her to have failed vital tests based on a technicality that isn't applied to anyone else. She still doesn't accept; rather, she tries to challenge the Singers directly, and even when that results in capture, she still treats joining as a reluctant bargain rather than an obligation.
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Updraft / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Updraft / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Kirit decides to expose the Singers' dangerous duplicity about the skymouths by winning a Trial by Combat, after which her opponents could no longer deny her permission to speak. Then she realises... why is she bothering to play by the rules of the people she's trying to expose? Why wait for their permission? Instead, she shouts out the truth during the fight, letting the whole audience know it regardless of whether she wins or loses.
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Updraft / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
Updraft / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Kirit and Nat, her friend from her home tower, eventually come to odds due to one of them challenging the Singers and one of them now being a Singer. Their Trial by Combat ends with Nat apparently dying, but actually surviving. They later reconcile. Another example might be Kirit and Sellis, a fellow Singer trainee, but that friendship is more illusionary based on not ever really understanding where Kirit was coming from.
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Updraft / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
Updraft / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: This is why the Singers executed Nat's father; he knew that Singers possessed knowledge of how to safely navigate at night, which would be very useful for non-Singer fliers. Even if the Singers had been prepared to share that particular technique, people would wonder what else the Singers were hiding... and would now be better able to discover just that, since night would no longer cover Singer activities which people would get really angry about.
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Updraft / int_6bf50080	type	Your Eyes Can Deceive You
Updraft / int_6bf50080	comment	Your Eyes Can Deceive You: As part of her training, Kirit is required to move around blindfolded. This is to encourage her to use other senses, which are necessary if she is to learn to fly at night.
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Updraft / int_77073274	type	Monster Protection Racket
Updraft / int_77073274	comment	Monster Protection Racket: Kirit is told that she the ability to repel skymouths, a major threat to the safety of the city's inhabitants. This power is real, but the people recruiting her don't want her to repel skymouths so much as help herd them; the Singers breed skymouths and control their supposedly random migrations, while taking credit for protecting the city.
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Updraft / int_87b8f581	type	Refusal of the Call
Updraft / int_87b8f581	comment	Refusal of the Call: Kirit isn't interested in using her gift by joining the Singers; she'd much rather be a trader like her mother, which would have averted the whole plot. However, the Singers are quite prepared to ruin her chances of having that life.
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Updraft / int_a24eaaf2	type	Nemean Skinning
Updraft / int_a24eaaf2	comment	Nemean Skinning: The invisibility of skymouths is inherent to their skins, a fact which comes in handy when Kirit wants to make herself hard to find. It's not a very clean process, but it works.
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Updraft / int_ad325cb8	type	Monster Organ Trafficking
Updraft / int_ad325cb8	comment	Monster Organ Trafficking: Skymouths are highly dangerous, but also provide useful materials; in particular, sinew which allows the construction of bridges between the towers which constitute the city. Singers, who are responsible for protecting the city, maintain some of their clout thanks to the prosperity this sinew brings them. It's eventually revealed that the Singers are secretly breeding a horde of captive skymouths rather than killing them in the course of protecting the city, as they claim.
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Updraft / int_c0b66f61	type	Invisible Monsters
Updraft / int_c0b66f61	comment	Invisible Monsters: A major threat to the citizens of the city are skymouths, flying creatures which are completely invisible except for the mouth they open to eat you with. Naturally, they're hard to defend against, and Kirit's ability to repel them is why the Singers are so keen to force her join up.
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Updraft / int_c3c3c608	type	Evil Former Friend
Updraft / int_c3c3c608	comment	Evil Former Friend: From Nat's perspective, Kirit herself is this, due to seemingly aligning with the Singers despite knowing what they did to Nat's father. However, they eventually accept that they were actually seeking the same basic thing by different routes, and reconcile.
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Updraft / int_d50f42d	type	Skyscraper City
Updraft / int_d50f42d	comment	Skyscraper City: A fantasy version; the city consists of a cluster of living towers made of bone, high above the clouds and slowly rising. Some are connected with bridges, but the fastest way to travel is by strapping on wings.
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Updraft / int_d881756c	type	Those Magnificent Flying Machines
Updraft / int_d881756c	comment	Those Magnificent Flying Machines: Use of hang-glider-esque wings to fly around and between the towers of the city is routine, and Kirit is very keen to pass her tests and become an airborne trader like her mother. These wings are also used for combat, both against monsters and in duels (including Trial by Combat). There do not seem to be any larger air vehicles, however; or powered ones.
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Updraft / int_f617419c	type	Trial by Combat
Updraft / int_f617419c	comment	Trial by Combat: It's legally permissible to challenge the Singers, who are responsible for interpreting and enforcing law, in single combat. This can be done both by ordinary citizens and by Singers who disagree with their leaders' decisions. Combat takes the form of airborne duels using the hang-gliders-like wings commonly used for transport.
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Updraft / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
Updraft / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: It turns out that Tobiat, a scruffy, mad-seeming vagrant in Kirit's home tower, was once one of the exalted Singers.
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Updraft / int_ff055287	type	Star Scraper
Updraft / int_ff055287	comment	Star Scraper: The bone towers which constitute the city all reach well above the clouds, and their lower levels are essentially abandoned; as far as their inhabitants are concerned, the above-cloud portions of the towers are the whole world.
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