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*Book II — The Silent Decade*, written by Eon.
***The Silent Decade*** is the second book of *The Confidence*, written by [[life/eon|Eon]]. It covers the ten years between the death of [[life/raymond|Raymond]] and the Greiss settlement, from [[life/akio-nakayama|Akio Nakayama]]'s nineteenth year to his twenty-ninth.
## Chapters
Its subject is the campaign Akio conducted against the trafficking networks operating across the region in those years, which killed fifty-six million people and was not attributed to anyone until BNCY's investigators counted the dead nine years afterwards.
## Contents
- [[pages/book-two-book-two-chapter-one|The Silent Decade, chapter 1]]
## What it covers
The first chapter runs the whole decade at a distance and then closes in. It opens with Ray dead on the basalt at the highest point of the plateau, and with Akio's hand against his neck until the warmth is gone. It records the wedding in the machine shop, the logbook and the two brass washers [[life/rad-albert|Rad]] cut from a scrap hydraulic pipe. It records the births of Seral and Jory into grey dust and generator light. Then the networks, one after another, set down in the plain declarative sentences the book uses throughout, each ending the same way. Then the count. Then a six-year-old reaching for bread at the back of a supply wagon, and a pot of soup, and the end of the decade.
## Authorship
Eon arrived with the Lost Boys and asked to stay. He is present through the whole of *The Glass House* without narrating any of it, and the notebook he is seen writing in on a rock east of the gate is this book.
Of the three authors of *The Confidence*, he is the one who was inside it and could not stop recording.
## See also
- [[life/eon|Eon]]
- [[life/akio-nakayama|Akio Nakayama]]
- [[works/glass-house|Book I, The Glass House]]