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Trader’s Leap – Chapter 24 (V-VIII)

Volmer

In which yos’Galan makes connections.

I can’t remember the last book in which we had so many bows in so few chapters. The last few books have either been set on Surebleak or involved people being off having adventures among the Terrans, so there hasn’t been so much opportunity for Liadens interacting.
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Conflict of Honors – Chapter 16

Shipyear 65
Tripday 143
Second Shift
6.00 hours

In which Priscilla receives an apology.

It would appear that Shan did, in fact, have business with the famous Herr Sasoni; I’d been half-inclined to suspect him of throwing that in to achieve an effect on the magistrate, for all that we’ve been assured that it’s not like him to lie. Even so, I still suspect that the nature of the transaction was not what he allowed the magistrate to assume.

(Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I hope it wasn’t, given the implied nature of the assumed transaction and the fact that, like Rusty, I read an obvious implication in the quality of Shan’s apology to Priscilla.)