Dutiful Passage

In which the Dutiful Passage is informed that Plan B is in effect.

It’s time for Plan B.

Chapters like this show the value of that thing the authors do where they write a short story about a character or setting to get a feel for it before its first appearance in a novel. There’s a lot of detail and texture in this chapter that probably wouldn’t have been there if the authors hadn’t written Conflict of Honors first. (As I understand it, Conflict of Honors started out being one of those short stories I just mentioned, but turned out to be longer than the authors had initially anticipated.)