Fretted with Golden Fire

In which Kar Min pel’Mather makes his choice.

There’s a balance, or a reflection, in these few Interludes: Daav and Aelliana return to the land of the living, but Kar Min pel’Mather and his less fortunate colleague go forth from it.

“Interlude”, in a Liaden novel, seems to mean something like “scene important enough to stand alone and not have to share a chapter with other scenes”. I thought, when the first one in this novel was Daav and Aelliana, that it might be something like “glimpse of something happening away from the main plot”, but this one is right in the middle of the main plot. (So were the interludes in Dragon Ship and Crystal Dragon, come to think of it.)