2024/161: Ocean's Echo — Everina Maxwell

2024/161: Ocean's Echo — Everina Maxwell

Surit, not for the first time, felt a deep unease about the observational skills of his senior officers. A lit fuse didn’t stop being a lit fuse just because it had decided to burn politely. [loc. 1796]

Tennal has taken great pains to escape his aunt, a powerful legislator, and to escape the noise of other people's (and his own) surface thoughts: as a reader, his mind is 'a little too open to the universe'. He spends his time flitting from dive bar to socialite party, hiring his mind-reading skills to criminals and traitors -- until, calling his little sister to congratulate her on her forthcoming entry to legal academy, he accidentally re-enables the locator function on his wristband.( Read more... )