Shipyear 65
Tripday 155
Second Shift
6.00 hours

In which Priscilla has some new concepts to grapple with.

Priscilla believes Moonhawk is dead. Well, after all, she hasn’t heard from Moonhawk since she left the Temple, and there was that public and official announcement of Moonhawk’s death — and, even after what she’d been through, the long habit of assuming that a public and official announcement from the Temple would contain dependable information must have held weight. But reading in chronological order, and getting to “Moonphase” before this, casts the situation in a different light: No one dares mention to the Inner Circle that Moonhawk still lives… There is also a moment in “Moonphase” where Moonhawk tells Priscilla that she has power of her own, not borrowed from Moonhawk, but Priscilla had quite a bit on her mind at the time and it appears now that bit of information didn’t sink in.

This chapter heading, I am pretty sure, has a typo in it. Tripday 155 was long and incident-packed, but I don’t believe it has a second Second Shift after it had already progressed to Fourth Shift. (I have the Meisha Merlin edition; I wonder if it’s been fixed in the Baen edition.)