Lessons learned
I thought this might be the case, but now I know for sure. Tamasi never lifts so much as a finger in her own (metaphorical) defense—but anyone who threatens those she thinks of as hers is asking for serious trouble. “Her people” is a set of concentric circles—her house and house-servants, her land and its tenants, her people of the deep sea.
(When I was a kid we had a dog who hated all cats except one. There were “other cats” against whom his anger was dire indeed, and then there was “his cat,” whom he understood he had to live with in order to stay in our house. Woe betide anyone or anything threatening his cat! Tamasi is more than a little like that dog.)
I wasn’t sure whether Nacreon and Nikolao were hers. I’m not sure she was sure. Now we both know. They are. They are the inmost circle.
And I’m also fairly sure that the Abyssian Empire isn’t in the circle at all. It will be interesting to see whether she finally adopts it, as she has Nacreon’s House Amyriand, or helps kick it to pieces herself.
I also learned this week that Tamasi is potentially a very scary person. She’s starting to make me nervous.
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