Hickey finds in Gibson a somewhat-too-willing teacher.
In a public street, Goodsir gazes at another man with a less-than-scientific eye and gets more than he bargains for.
New Year's Eve, 1845: Crozier drinks punch and mulls his options on Beechey Island.
The woman who will be Lady Jane and the man who will be her husband, Christmas 1826.
Their first time is the last time.
Henry Bolingbroke is an absurdly youthful jousting champion and a man of few words. But his cousin is King of England, so that has to count for something.
The cause is long since lost. Richard Stoker's life as measured out in documents.
The possibility that keeps him up at night is that Meng Yao came into his service an honest man, and over time changed into what he sees before him now. That, as his ambitions rose and his world grew grander, he reshaped himself and discovered the things he was capable of, all the while looking like his familiar self, but transforming under his skin into something Nie Mingjue could hardly recognize.
Mipha would go out with the Guard and take stock of the Domain. She would eat fish fresh from the river and feel the sun on her skin. And when the sun began to set, she would be ushered back to her rooms and told to stay the night, safely in the center of the Domain. Nobody noticed when she slipped out, dressed in armor meant for a man who did not exist, exploring the world around her.