A more complicated framing story than most and plenty of distractions left me feeling like I missed some stuff, but various articles about the book online say that I didn't. The second of the "here's how I got involved with all these folks" stories. Not my favorite entry, and not just because it does nothing to address the double-what?! from the end of Orca.

This is the last one I read back in the day, so now I'm going to start on the ones I haven't read: Issola, Dzur, Jhegala, Iorich, Tiassa.