In which Miri and Val Con discuss family history.
One of the interesting things about Miri’s family tree is that, if Val Con’s calculation of the year named Amrasam is accurate, Miri’s grandmother was born within a year of Val Con’s father. Daav yos’Phelium waited until relatively late in life to marry and have a family, but Miri Tiazan, as we will be told later, had her daughter young, and her daughter seemingly did the same.
It may be that, in this, Daav is the odd one out. There’s a cultural imperative for every Liaden to have at least one descendant, and many Liadens who appear in the series are shown to have opted to do it early to get it out of the way. What the cultural imperative is on Surebleak I don’t know for sure, but a ghetto world with a short life expectancy would probably also tend toward young parenthood. Miri Tiazan didn’t live to see the age at which Daav yos’Phelium started seriously considering his posterity.
Okay, so the tags mention “stick-knife” but you did not comment on it, even though it develops that this is a more important point than most would first imagine. I certainly almost fell out of my chair at the later revelation.
I didn’t comment, did I? I guess by that point I’d read the book enough times that I forgot it was something surprising or noteworthy.
(The tags mention everything in a chapter, regardless of noteworthiness, just in case I need to find it again.)