Frenzel Port
In which Bechimo receives the valcomvoggen.
Well, that confirms that the Uncle was among the Builders and took part in the building of Bechimo. Which brings us back to the question of why, by the time Bechimo headed out into the wide universe, the Uncle had ended up on the Disallowed List.
An interesting reaction from the Sector Arrival Director to the news that Theo’s here to deal with Chaliceworks Aggregations. Perhaps a sign that someone who deals with that organisation is considered somehow unlikely to be a good target for whatever he was going to try to persuade her to?
This chapter provides a fairly specific reference to dates, helping the reader understand how long Clan Korval has existed. This has been fairly unclear across the series, but these Bechimo books mention Jeeves as being at least 700 years old, and Bechimo at least 500, and Korval itself about 1,000 years old.
Excerpt:
“Perhaps there was a . . . contractual disagreement between the planet and Tree-and-Dragon; such things happen. But an organization with a thousand-year history rarely makes really major mistakes.”