Dutiful Passage
Colemeno Orbit
In which the visitors prepare to be received.
I wonder if the cats had anything interesting to say in their nameday greetings, or if Jeeves just translated their message into human-polite.
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Dutiful Passage
Colemeno Orbit
In which the visitors prepare to be received.
I wonder if the cats had anything interesting to say in their nameday greetings, or if Jeeves just translated their message into human-polite.
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Colemeno
Portmaster’s Office
In which the Redlands prepare to welcome visitors.
I can see several potential problems with the Warden’s plans to keep the off-worlders and Civilization at arm’s length.
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Dutiful Passage
Colemeno Orbit
In which Moonhawk is impatient.
Shan doesn’t seem to distinguish between Moonhawk and Priscilla’s Goddess, but I still think that the Goddess when she answered Priscilla’s prayer earlier had a distinctly different personality.
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Civilization
In which it’s too late to keep hiding under a bush.
This might be the last appearance in the book of the word “vas’dramliz”, the Liaden word for the “small talents”, so I’m going to take this opportunity to share an observation: given that we know what “dramliz” means, vas’ must be the part of the word that signifies “small” or “lesser” — so it’s curious that we know of at least three Liaden surnames with the same prefix. Mae Nir vas’Urbil, in “Degrees of Separation”, is a chef, which might suggest that families with that prefix tend toward lower class jobs. (Menolly vas’Anamac is a scout and Kin Jal vas’Tezin an appendage of the Department, so we don’t have any idea of their families’ social status.)
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Dutiful Passage
Rostermin Breakout
In which Shan yos’Galan reads his mail.
Shan’s statement about “our time in this space” implies that he thinks Lute can’t manifest on the ship while it’s in Jump. I can’t think of anything specific to give him that idea, and he may just be fishing, but on the other hand I don’t at the moment recall any specific event that contradicts it.
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Tarona Rusk
Daglyte Seam
In which Tarona Rusk has business elsewhere.
This chapter’s mostly filling in details that haven’t been mentioned in this book yet, without much in the way of new information.
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Civilization
In which Aunt Asta is in a good mood.
The opening of this chapter is word-for-word the same as in the opening of the first “Civilization” chapter — until it isn’t.
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