Their true names are revealed to each other, but not the reader.
Color Motif: Red and Blue, obviously, named for the colors they prefer.Butterfly of Doom: While they're not adverse to creating minor or major disasters, both Red and Blue prefer to change very small things to bend the timelines, like making sure someone is late or one person has a religious motivation.Blue opens it anyway to save Red, and Red is forced to seek other measures. Break His Heart to Save Him: Red and Blue try this in the end, with Red rejecting Blue so that she won't open her next letter, which will be deadly to her.Red also keeps the hospital from being full by making a bomb threat. Boring, but Practical: Red thwarts Blue's plans of finding a specific doctor at a hospital by making the doctor's car engine fail, which makes her decide to work from home and see her nieces instead.Biopunk: Blue's Garden is highly advanced Organic Technology with a corresponding degree of invasiveness.Animal Motifs: Birds play an important role to both protagonists.To ensure they come to pass, both Shifts send time travelers like Red and Blue to alter the course of each strand, working to "braid" them together so that they merge into their respective futures while unbraiding the attempts of other time travelers to do the same for the enemy. Far downthread, all strands merge into one of two possible futures (also called Shifts), the Agency and the Garden. A strand's past is called upthread, its future is downthread. Alternate Timeline: There are thousands of them, called strands.Two agents on rival sides of a time war exchange letters across time and space. A 2019 novella by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
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