Shaper’s Freehold
Surebleak
In which Yulie has visitors.
We get quite a bit of differentiation, in a short space of time, between the various members of the crew trying to break into the growing rooms. One of them is named Mort, which is a name we’ve seen before on Surebleak, attached to one of the muggers who left Rys dying on the doorstep of the Bedel back at the beginning of Necessity’s Child. I don’t think it’s the same Mort, though, because that one had a group of other ruffians he was usually seen in company with, and none of those names appears here. Also, he seems a bit smarter than that Mort.
With Rys getting training as a headman and Droi being reassured that she does have what it takes to be a luthia, if they do get together they’ll have between them the two roles needed to lead a kompani. I don’t know if that means Silain has foreseen them leading a kompani of the Bedel; it might just be that whatever group of companions they gather around them might benefit from including people with those skills.
On re-reading after Accepting the Lance: There will be more said on the subject of that second paragraph later.
Also, I had forgotten, when Droi’s neck decoration appears again, that she received it on the page, and this early. But it’s not so early, since Rys has already stepped away from the kompani to go join his new brothers and sisters. Perhaps what threw me off was that I’d forgotten it wasn’t Rys directly who gave it to her.
Kinda fun to see your observation borne out in the text, eh?