Day 283
Standard Year 1392
Liad
Department of Interior Command Headquarters
In which the economy demands a Korval.
Re-reading in order, we’ve already had the truth behind Pat Rin being “dismissed to a wastrel life of spoiled self-indulgence”. Even without that context, though, I’m pretty sure I could already tell the first time I read this that spoiled and self-indulgent wasn’t really what Pat Rin was like, and that he was unlikely to be as receptive to the Department’s intention as they might have hoped.
I confess that, even with the glimpses already given of Pat Rin, I was too trusting of the unreliable narrator here. Instead of realizing just how unreliable the narrator was, I found myself off balance and disoriented slightly, simply plowing onward, but with some of the wrong assumptions still attached to my expectations. So glad that it became very clear just how able Pat Rin actually is.