LeepConcept
Leep is the IntEarth term for the night period, equivalent to sleep or darkness. It is used as a unit of time in the same way Wake is used for the day period.
Where it appears (13 mentions in 3 books)
Expos-Zeshin · 2 mentions Read the book →
- ¶76…hat had arrived at completion by entirely different roads in the same chamber on the same Leep. The connection between them, if there was one, remained unspoken and perhaps unspeakable…
- ¶80…ewly opened, two messages sent across a very long span of time that had only now, in this Leep, arrived at the same address.
Authorian Paladin · 1 mention Read the book →
- ¶26…our story. When I wake, it is by the will of the Author. The Author's hand stirs me from Leep, summoning me to prepare the Faithful of Intearth.
A Wizard's Journey · 10 mentions Read the book →
- ¶16…e, he sealed its mouth and covered its nostrils until it passed. Egast worked through the Leep, skinning the animal there in the field. He buried its remains and stacked three stones a…
- ¶22…assembled. They established a calendar based on the rhythm of their world. Each Wake and Leep spanned twelve Lumers. A Spanth was thirty six Wakes and Leeps, and a Cycle was twelve Sp…
- ¶318…ured his bundle with quick, nervous movements, eager to begin the journey home before the Leep brought deeper shadows to the unfamiliar roads. Yet his eyes lingered on the scene beyond…
- ¶321…ed beside the still form of the cow as Lum's light began to soften toward the approaching Leep. The other cattle maintained their vigil, forming an unbroken circle that seemed to pulse…
- ¶329The Leep was not yet upon Moondor, but the quality of Lum's light had shifted to that particular amber that preceded dimming, long and horizontal and heavy with the patience of the world.…
- ¶332…world above. Then he walked on, and the lane was empty, and the village settled into its Leep.
- ¶333He did not sleep when the Leep came fully down over Moondor. He sat instead at the low table in his dwelling with the hide book open before him and the coalwood branch resting across h…
- ¶337…nd the dark crystal beneath the table had not pulsed again through the full length of the Leep.