Jelaza Kazone
Surebleak
In which Val Con sees his brother off.
I had wondered what became of Quick Passage. Now I wonder if the hidden control centre it’s become is the same one Miri used to oversee the Captain’s Emergency.
I like how Miri says “Now all we do is wait” as if that’s going to be easy for them.
Jelaza Kazone
Surebleak
In which a team comes together.
I was wrong about why Val Con found Tocohl’s voice familiar, but at least I was inside the ball park.
It occurs to me that Val Con thinking about his plans for his daughter’s future actually fits in well in the midst of Rys and the free agents planning, because the potential for Talizea to have a future is one of the things they’re fighting for.
Whatever plan they decide on, there’s no chance now they’ll get it done before the end of the book, but that’s no surprise; The Decisive Attack on the Department was always the kind of thing that was going take a whole book to tell.
It’s interesting that the free agents apparently don’t know about Val Con. The Department knows, of course, but it makes sense that a particular agent wouldn’t have been told unless there was some reason they needed to know. After the attack on Solcintra Headquarters, it would have become general knowledge that Korval was acting in opposition to the Department, but perhaps not the details of how that came about.
I wonder if Claidyne, the former director, knows.
The Firmament
In which Bon Vit Onida makes his choice.
Another one, different again.
We were about due for something to go wrong. I’m not sure what actually did, though: some kind of trap laid by the Department? But if they knew enough to lay a trap for this situation, why only trap one agent in three? Perhaps it was a sign of some flaw of Bon Vit Onida’s own, maybe deepened by the Department’s tampering or maybe not; and if so, it’ll be interesting to see how Bon Vit Onida manifests in the mundane world.
The Firmament
In which Sye Mon van’Kie makes his choice.
This is another interlude that’s very significant for the characters but I can’t think of anything to say about it that it hasn’t already said itself.
Except the perhaps obvious statement that, with the number of ex-Agents increased to three, things are pretty much certain to become even more interesting. Because they just weren’t interesting enough already.