Quick Passage
Departing Solcintra
In which the Great Migration begins.
Since I missed all the cosmological hints the first time through, it was the number Master dea’Syl adds to his calculations in this chapter that brought home to me that the universe Cantra calls home is not ours. Such a number, appearing in the equations determining their destination – and then there’s the fact that not one person present in the tower stops and says, “Wait a minute, isn’t that…?”
On Port
Ardega
In which Cantra goes shopping.
Cantra and Jela are getting comfortable working together in their roles as legitimate traders, and both occasionally having trouble remembering that their association is only a temporary arrangement of convenience (or least practicable inconvenience, perhaps, from Cantra’s point of view).
The rug merchant gives Cantra a hand-signal meaning “I’ll be there soon”, which is described the same way pilot hand-talk has been, but I’m not sure if that means the merchant is also a pilot or maybe merchants have their own hand-talk which Cantra, as a trader, also knows.