Ding Rong should have suspected scheming the moment he saw Wang Zhi in red.
William Gibson has a past, but Cornelius Hickey has a future.
Hickey shows Crozier something new.
Little wakes from unconsciousness into different company.
There have been stranger love-matches made at sea. Probably.
Merridew is Merridew once more. Ralph is something else.
Tang Fan is not a simple man, by any means.
Later, Holden and Debbie talk Vacaville.
"Tang Fan," she starts carefully.
Tang Fan has no such concern. "Sui Zhou," is her counter. She dumps their bag at her feet, where its gaped mouth is swiftly fed her belt and chopsticks. "Your poor delicate Qing'er," she complains. "I will find a man and his wife to show me the pity here that you won't."
If Lan Wangji has learned anything from his atonement for Wei Wuxian’s death, it is that patience is neither simple nor shallow.