What’s happening
In Passions of the Tide, Tamasi and Nacreon are awaiting the return of Nikolao and Isleen from court, where they have just met the rude, cruel, sexy, and entirely too powerful warmonger brat Imperial Princess Ireth.
If Tamasi does marry Imperial Prince Pirion, at some point there will be the undersea equivalent of a Kilkenny catfight. Ireth is just about everything that Tamasi despises. (Well, except for the sexy part. Tamasi’s neutral on that.)
Over on the message boards, we’ve been getting downright apocalyptic. Conspiracy theories galore, stemming from the unexplained absence from court of an NPC with plenty of perfectly good reasons to be absent.
In the Grand Ellipse, Shirley is antsy about an intrigue in Arkhangelsk. The representative there skips out on meetings. According to the servants, it’s because of summons from a lady of doubtful virtue. The so-called liaison started just as Vroomfondel would have been escaping Irkutsk—so although it may well be nothing at all, Shirley treated it with kid gloves.
They seem to have escaped with their tokens, however, after a bit of necessary grandstanding on Shirley’s part, so onward through Europe to the Channel and Glasgow!
(For Li’s edification, I was considering everything from having Sasha fake a temper tantrum to having Esperanza sneak onto the house staff and steal the book and tokens—this was before I found out they were in a locked safe. That, I assume, was to keep them away from Vroomfondel?)
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