It makes little sense for Tang Fan to continue to take his suppressants, after everything, so of course he stops doing that.
By the time Sui Zhou returns with breakfast, Tang Fan has expended every effort to do nothing more than roll over in their bed, putting his back to both the door and the day.
"Tang da-ge," she presses, trying to reel him back for a final snatch of constructive conversation before he sets off into the wilderness of his own head again, "who was that handsome gentleman?"
"So familiar." Tang Fan's preening at her address persists as far as them both toeing over the threshold before the smug smile falls flat from his face. Then, "Wait," he starts, craning so far to toss a look over his shoulder that he ends up twisting himself around in a circle. "What— what handsome gentleman?"
Aumerle lives to regret many things.
Isabella, future girl-queen of England, receives a visit from a predecessor.
The caulker's mate on Terror is pressed into service for a more personal problem of its Captain's.
As Kylo Ren awaits judgment, Poe Dameron seeks satisfaction.
William Gibson has a past, but Cornelius Hickey has a future.