Shipyear 65
Tripday 155
Second Shift
6.00 hours
In which Priscilla has some new concepts to grapple with.
Priscilla believes Moonhawk is dead. Well, after all, she hasn’t heard from Moonhawk since she left the Temple, and there was that public and official announcement of Moonhawk’s death — and, even after what she’d been through, the long habit of assuming that a public and official announcement from the Temple would contain dependable information must have held weight. But reading in chronological order, and getting to “Moonphase” before this, casts the situation in a different light: No one dares mention to the Inner Circle that Moonhawk still lives… There is also a moment in “Moonphase” where Moonhawk tells Priscilla that she has power of her own, not borrowed from Moonhawk, but Priscilla had quite a bit on her mind at the time and it appears now that bit of information didn’t sink in.
This chapter heading, I am pretty sure, has a typo in it. Tripday 155 was long and incident-packed, but I don’t believe it has a second Second Shift after it had already progressed to Fourth Shift. (I have the Meisha Merlin edition; I wonder if it’s been fixed in the Baen edition.)
That does seem like an obvious mistake. How can I tell whose “version” I have on my Kindle app?
If it’s just Conflict of Honors by itself, it’s almost certainly the Meisha Merlin edition. As a check, the Meisha Merlin ebooks all have the same cover design, with no illustration except the Korval logo in the top left corner.
Baen didn’t do new individual editions of the books that were already out when it acquired the series, instead pushing them out three at a time in omnibus editions. (Which I didn’t buy, since I had those books already, hence not knowing what differences there might be.) Conflict of Honors is in an omnibus titled The Dragon Variation, so if you have that, that’s the Baen edition.
Nope. Bought it by itself, with the boring cover.
PA: Moonhawk tells Priscilla that she has power of her own
I suppose this is as good a place as any to mention I find myself confused by Sintia. I guess the Fourteen Names are those of the dramliz allies from the Migration (or the Moment), but what do the human vessels actually *do*? It almost seems, from the Moonhawk short stories, that they all just stay on Sintia, and that they control the human population there through the religion they created? If Priscilla knows only female healers, then does that mean those male-female dramliz from the Old Universe became only female human vessels in the Liaden Universe, with the exception of the one named male: Rool Tiazen.
And what about this “catalyst molecule”? If it does not actually produce dramliz, does it at least make a human vessel capable of receiving one of those entities?
I think you mean Lute? He’s the one who was mentioned in Crystal Dragon as having had a separate arrangement made for him.
Oops…that’s right. Lute was that exception. In Rool’s case, he already had his lady “with him” the same way Daav has Aelliana.