“The people of Godspeed have gone years without knowing about the stairs. And I can’t help but think: if they’ve forgotten stairs, what else have they forgotten?”
TW: Sexual harassment/assault briefly mentioned
Elder is in charge of the ship without using phydus, and finally solves some mystery's everyone's been wondering about. Answers to the open ended questions from the first book were finally answered, but there's a few more left over. Elder is too soft as a leader. It seems like there's always a bigger picture that we aren't seeing, even if we think we finally put the puzzle together.