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Carpe Diem – Chapter 9

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Liad
Trealla Fantrol

In which Val Con is missed.

Shan observed that Angela Lizardi is a commander who takes an interest in her soldiers, after reading that she helped Miri get her bank loan, but he hadn’t seen the full picture yet: it’s not until later that he gets to the point in Miri’s employment history that reveals the loan was taken a full year after the Lunatics were deactivated and Miri ceased to be one of Angela Lizardi’s soldiers in any official sense. Which shows that Liz had a particular interest in Miri, which we knew already but Shan didn’t.

Another thing we know about that Shan doesn’t yet is Miri’s reminiscence last chapter about having to go into rehab after Klamath, which doubtless explains at least part of the two-year gap between leaving the Lunatics and joining the Gyrfalks, and probably also has a bearing on her sudden need for a large bank loan.

I wonder if Scandal Arbuckle had any relatives named Roscoe.

Carpe Diem – Chapter 7

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Liad
Trealla Fantrol

In which Val Con’s siblings receive news of his doings.

The mention of “children, cats, and dogs” as potential hazards to navigation is, I think, the first mention of there being dogs in Korval’s Valley, or indeed on Liad. In fact, I’m not sure it isn’t the only mention of dogs at all in the series (outside of Necessity’s Child, which has a major character with a dog). Characters in the Liaden Universe are much more likely to be cat people, like their creators.

Speaking of children, we get a run-down of the youngest generation of yos’Galans: Shan’s daughter Padi has been mentioned before, as has his foster-son Gordy (who would be about 18 Standards old now), but this is the first mention of Nova’s son Syl Vor and of Anthora’s twins, Shindi and Mik. Unsurprisingly, in the latter case, since they’re “brand new” — which is a reminder that just as Val Con’s relatives are unaware of what he’s been up to lately, so is he unaware of their latest news.