Mercantile Building
In which the Boss Vote is concluded.
And that, more or less, is that. There’s still the outcome of the TerraTrade survey to be announced, but that’s looking more predictable now than it did a few chapters ago. And Lady yo’Lanna’s housewarming party. And, maybe, a progress report on Memit’s rabbit hunt.
Rabbit hunt? Yulie, right?
Right.
“How goes the courting?” she asked Memit, and was pleased to see her sister smile.
“Slowly. I do not wish to frighten the rabbit. But the question before me is–do I stalk a rabbit or a lion?”
Ah! Cute. Now I remember that interlude.
Yeah. I thought rabbit too, but in the end I’d have to say she was stalking a lion! The Tree and its offshoot have done wonders in healing a very damaged personality.
After the excitement of the previous chapter, this chapter just made me feel bored and impatient. When they read Miri’s note, I thought it was oddly out of character for her to take that opportunity to put in a plug for contracts, and it tugged at my suspension of unbelief but ultimately, I just wanted to get through the chapter to get back to Val Con and Miri. I can understand the authors wanting to show us how the attack from without brought about solidarity for Surebleakeans, but politics bores me *sigh*.
I also thought the note didn’t quite sound like what Miri would say in the circumstances. Of course, there’s an explanation for that in the next chapter.