Day 60
Standard Year 1118
Gobelyn’s Market
Approaching Kinaveral
In which there is talk of courses being disputed.
The Market arrives at Kinaveral, where it’s going to be refitted. Most of the family have made plans for short-term jobs – particularly those who get uncomfortable if they have to spend much time with their feet planted on dirt.
Except that Iza Gobelyn, who is definitely one of that number, has insisted that she’s going to stay dirtside all through the refit.
On the one hand, it’s reasonable for a captain to feel a duty to make sure her ship’s cared for. On the other, Paitor points out that Seeli is capable of doing that on her behalf (Seeli, apparently, not being so edgy on dirt). And Iza is kind of reminding me of certain people I have known, who have given me the impression that if they ever find themselves without any sources of stress in their lives, they’ll go out of their way to find or create one.
It would be interesting to see things from Iza’s viewpoint some time. I get the feeling she has things in her past overshadowing the way she relates with her present.
Iza has been heading crazier since Arin died. Was she considered crazy before she met him or while she knew him? She certainly appears to choose unhappiness over all other possibilities. And sees no harm in spreading it.
We know from present day psychology that refusing to forgive damages the person who is holding on to the anger and resentment.
We later find out a bit more about what affected Iza so deeply, but that doesn’t change the fact that she hasn’t really moved on from the anger and resentment, which has been left roiling in her heart.