The Blog of Roon

The latest London Times is up.

I knew Li wouldn’t leave Percy cooling his heels in custody (and no, GM favoritism to her husband is not the reason). I did not expect that Addison would get free also, in Parts Unknown (read the article carefully; it’s posted from the Netherlands, but nowhere is the actual place of prisoner transfer stated).

And Shirley, Margaret, and Esperanza are heading blithely out into Siberia knowing none of this; they left Vladivostok on April 10th or 11th. Whee! I can at least hope that Vroomfondel doesn’t get to read Shirley’s tweak of him. (Though if Vroomfondel tries to mess with Shirley, and even more if he tries to mess with Margaret, Shirley may surprise him.)

Not to mention that Shirley is going to be, er, distressed to find out that a fellow Ellipsoid went down in Osaka. Bad, bad, very bad. Where the devil was Scotland Yard, he will want to know.

Shirley’s less-than-wholly-approbatory comments vis-a-vis the dirigible had more to do with Shirley’s galloping acrophobia than anything else. I personally think somebody squealed about it to Basil Cartwright, who grilled them unmercifully about the dirigible and hardly so much as mentioned their marriage. (Though I also think there’s a plot point lurking there with regard to Selena Theopolis.)

Siberia is an ugly place about to get uglier.

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