Day 346
Standard Year 1392

Industry Street
Surebleak

In which Boss Ivernet’s hospitality leaves something to be desired.

The first time I read I Dare, what I mostly noticed about the two plot strands was the obvious disjoint that came from them being not only on different planets but happening in non-overlapping time periods. This time through, I’m a lot more aware of the ways that the events of one plot strand are echoed in the other.

Here, for instance, we have a cliffhanger where Pat Rin throws himself into danger after Natesa, with an uncertain outcome — immediately after the other plot strand gave us a cliffhanger where Miri throws herself into danger after Val Con, with an uncertain outcome. (And that analogy implies a possibility about where Pat Rin and Natesa’s relationship might be headed, come to think of it.)