Necessity’s Child – Chapter 35

In which Rys has a reunion.

But of course it doesn’t occur to Syl Vor that Ms ker’Eklis was asking something of him in advance of his age and ability; he’s used to living under the Plan B conditions which regularly did the same.

At last we have a name for Rys’s former colleague – and it’s one that has appeared before in this novel. Isphet bar’Obin was present, credentialed as a member of the Blair Road Patrol, when Mike Golden interviewed the criminals who mugged Rys. Several details about that scene seem much more significant, reading it again now, starting with the description of her eye colour, moving on to the fact that Mike only assumes she’s a Scout, and finishing up with the bit where Mike delegates to her the task of discovering the owner of a knife found among the muggers’ possessions.

And this naturally explains how she came to be in the bakery during the meeting, in such an artfully covered position that I assumed at first she was one of the Road Patrol assigned to be Nova’s backup: it’s because she was. How very amusing for her.

2 thoughts on “Necessity’s Child – Chapter 35

  1. Jami

    I liked how Nova dealt with the math teacher problem. Another good scene! And I wonder if the teacher was cranky cuz she didn’t want to live on Surebleak, and/or because she disapproved of the Skyblaze strike on Liad.

  2. Ed8r

    PA, once again I must thank you for your sharp eye (and brain). I had totally missed the ironies involved in those scenes with Isphet.

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