LuminConcept
A Lumin is a short unit of time in IntEarth, used to describe brief moments or spans of seconds to minutes. It appears alongside Lumends as one of the smaller increments of time by which inhabitants measure passing moments.
Where it appears (35 mentions in 6 books)
Found Journal of a Traveler · 5 mentions Read the book →
- ¶73…figure's wrist, the one with its small face and its counted divisions, had fallen eleven Lumins behind the Peakwalkers' reckoning during the exchange, and this too was noted, in the sam…
- ¶76…d the gap between the pocket instrument's count and the Peakwalkers' reckoning was eleven Lumins, and eleven Lumins was a number that did not dissolve into altitude no matter how many ti…
- ¶79…h the unhurried patience of something that has spent four hundred Cycles arriving at this Lumin and finds no cause to rush the remainder of it.
- ¶81…for four hundred Cycles and twelve more, and the instrument on your wrist counted eleven Lumins that passed without your accounting for them, and you wrote the word altitude and drew a…
Expos-Zeshin · 4 mentions Read the book →
- ¶25…ce was already beginning its work: Zeshin's eyes held a depth they had not possessed mere Lumins before, as if they were seeing through layers of reality that had previously been invisib…
- ¶46…d loosely at their side. The question that formed on their face was not one that required Lumins to compose. It was old and plain and had been asked in some form by every person who had…
- ¶76…They retrieved the key from the shelf where it rested and held it beside the vessel for a Lumin without speaking, comparing what the hand remembered of each, the key's resolved weight a…
- ¶85…resolve out of the general glow of the Spherve's curve, and you cannot say at what exact Lumin the point of light became distinguishable from all the others. It was always there. You s…
Authorian Paladin · 6 mentions Read the book →
- ¶1…editative state of non-existence. They rose to pray, having remained still for a fleeting Lumin.
- ¶70…their council robe with two small hands, and Vissira looked down at the child for a long Lumin before looking back toward the captain and the soldiers arrayed behind them.
- ¶82…into the paving, leaving the impression of armored fingers in what had been solid stone a Lumin before.
- ¶87…d stopped moving, held motionless above the pressed hide for the first time. After a long Lumin, Quelm set the stylus down against the page and looked at what had been written there, th…
- ¶88…he absence now of any light or breath from within. Their ears remained flat. After a long Lumin they looked up at No. 2.
- ¶96No. 2 regarded the archivist for a long Lumin, then turned that same steady regard upon the fracture in the paving stone, upon Vissira standing at its edge, upon Captain Ordas and the s…
Sam · 8 mentions Read the book →
- ¶38…voices, one of an older person and that other worldly, screeching noise. Ed watched for a Lumin and decided someone ought to help the man, and no one else was around so it would have to…
- ¶54Ed sat for a Lumin to take in all that had happened. Ed carried the bearing of the luckiest unlucky soul walking the surface. He ran over to Sam and put his hand over his mouth to see i…
- ¶55Ed walked over to Tom and began petting him, after a few Lumins of this he scratched Ed on the forearm signifying the end of the petting he would tolerate. He decided now may be a good t…
- ¶99…d rock, They can stick their horns into the earth and uproot a whole field in less than a Lumin, They also have sharp teeth and clawed feet instead of hooves, that help them when feedin…
- ¶104Sam sat still for a few Lumins before the earth beneath their feet began to move like waves of water. The crops they had been using as cover all fell over, the bull sized creature made e…
- ¶166…f the road he had laid with his own hands two Cycles prior. He stood there for three full Lumins, long enough that Ed opened his mouth twice and closed it twice without producing any sou…
- ¶184The witch held his gaze for a Lumin more, then turned and walked toward the inner door without haste, her robes trailing the fitted stone of the courtyard. She did not look back at the…
- ¶188The witch held his gaze for a Lumin more, then turned and walked toward the inner door without haste, her robes trailing the fitted stone of the courtyard. She did not look back at the…
A Wizard's Journey · 5 mentions Read the book →
- ¶27…noise. The sound was overwhelming, a constant, suffocating rhythm occupying each passing Lumin. Egast stood beneath that endless breath, his jaw tightening with each passing Lumin, his…
- ¶96…el. Vigil looked down and saw his competition coming up quickly. He waited in place for a Lumin, which threw Fafsior off because he ran into Vigil sooner than he expected. Vigil proceed…
- ¶335Egast sat back on his heels and studied the dark crystal for several Lumins. At last he took the coalwood branch and wrote something in the margin of the hide book, beside the blank-head…
- ¶356…wed to something measured and deliberate. The room grew very quiet. For a span of several Lumins nothing changed, and the other boys watched without speaking. Then a faint vibration move…
The Castle of Wizards · 7 mentions Read the book →
- ¶26…embled wizards fell silent. Even the Water Weavers ceased their murmuring. For seven long Lumins, the only sound in the chamber was the low harmonic tone rising through the floor, and th…
- ¶34…o far beyond their intended reach. Ancient Keeper Vorthak regarded Wizard Lary for a long Lumin, the temporal staff quiet in his grip. Then he looked out across the gathered wizards wit…
- ¶42…t of origin and dissipated at the pool's edge without returning. Maren studied this for a Lumin, then straightened and addressed no one in particular, which in that chamber, in that mom…
- ¶44…le had long used as an informal measure of time when the weight of a moment made counting Lumins feel inadequate. Then, from the cluster of Earth-brown transmuters who had remained near…
- ¶61…someone for whom old notation systems are a working material and not a curiosity. After a Lumin of this, Gault straightened again and looked across the room at the third platform, where…
- ¶66…lly settled into the understanding that they were reading it. Vorthak regarded this for a Lumin with the careful stillness of someone who has spent long enough in a room with a thing to…
- ¶67…meone who has identified a way to be in front of something. Wizard Lary moved at the same Lumin, not quickly, not toward the bundle, but to a position from which the bundle's opened pag…