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Junior survey officer aboard the NV Dawnward, on her first voyage, and the reason a reader falls in love with the reach — she has not yet learned to be cool about wonder. Her arc runs from delight, through hard experience, to a tougher and truer version of the same appetite.
The reader loves the reach through her "because she hasn't yet learned to be cool about wonder." She carries the book's oxygen — "her appetite is what the ending threatens."
Across the stories
The Far Roads
She sails on NV Kestrel on Day 64 of 2334 — at the after rail, two items short, per the frozen departure. Her mission function: what may be authenticated, entered, closed. THE MISSION'S LEGAL EXISTENCE. Rahimi commands the ship. Wells commands the embarked authority. neither can do the other'S job and neither outranks the other. Who Holds the Standard left it open on purpose and The Far Roads does not resolve it. (Failure mode 10: the moment they settle who is in charge, the series becomes a one-captain show.) To have been right the first time. She authenticated thin in Book 1 and it worked and somebody praised her for it. every one is an honest error by A competent person, and none may be narrated as an error at the moment it is made. 8a — she reads the ladder upside down. The rim has the mirrors, the offices, the money and the landing ground, so she routes everything through rim people. At Mireth the FLOOR is where the seniority is — depth is old ground, warm air, water and the households that came down first.