Annotated 47-10
FB: “A very good vintage, year 1078. The grapes are grown on the branches of Yggdrasil, aged in the elevated spires of our city, and seasoned with idealists’ tears.”
Again, I set up this scene, and Flo rewrote and added some dialogue. Frigg actually participating in diplomacy is a bit of a callback to the first scene ever to feature the sky elves. She has of course matured a lot since those early days: in that early scene, Syr’Nj scored her first diplomatic victory by using Frigg and Bandit’s blunter natures as blunt instruments.
I’m currently reading Spock’s World, an old Star Trek novel by Diane Duane about the Vulcans considering secession from the Federation. Their studied aloofness is certainly a parallel to that of the elder sky elves, but now that Caneghem is no longer obligated to make nice with the Altruists (for reasons that will soon become clear), he’s ready to vent a few emotions that he’s been keeping in check for a while.
_Spock’s World_ is one of my favorite ST novels. Diane Duane is a treasure.
I was wondering if Syr’Nj isn’t taking quite the risk in going to the Sky Elves. I mean, last time she spoke to him, several people here in the comments, including T, seemed to think that Caneghem would have no problem signing her death warrant. If that was true, what’s convincing her that he’s not a danger to her now?
I mean, of course the Altruists are no longer in charge, but the Altruists (except one) agreed to dissolve the House anyway, so relinquishing their power to a single leader would have had to have been part of their plan in some way (which I still don’t understand). So, who’s to say if Caneghem is maybe quite okay with Taro being in charge now? Maybe he hopes that will keep the humans distracted long enough for him to make whatever move he had in mind?
“I’m currently reading Spock’s World, an old Star Trek novel by Diane Duane”
Gods, I haven’t thought of that novel in literally decades. That’s back from the days when, if you excluded James Bliss and Alan Dean Foster’s condensations of the original and animated series, you could count the number of Trek novels without taking your shoes off.
Saw it in a used book sale, read a few of hers when I was younger, and was like, “Heck, why not.” I like her big, adventurous imagination.