Bechimo
Sync Shift

In which some things are opened that had been carefully sealed.

I don’t think I said this when it came up earlier: I like that Theo’s friends don’t all like each other just because all they like Theo. And that, on the other hand, it’s not held against them that they don’t; that’s just the way it goes, sometimes.

An interesting defence of the Uncle from Theo, particularly since she’s the one party to the conversation who might be thought that have personal reason to distrust him, after being thrown in the deep end the way she was.

The fact that the Uncle’s stash is present on board Bechimo at all argues that it was laid down before his falling out with the Builders; the idea that it was packed in a hurry suggests that it wasn’t long before his falling out and he had some idea it was in the wind. And that raises the question: if he knew that was in the wind, would it have affected what he chose to pack?