Better safe than close. A phrase Alleria repeated to herself so many times over their lost years that it has become some strange combination of vow and hymn.

Finn, a war hero and a Senator for the stormtroopers settled on Kef Bir, experiences an assassination attempt. The Senate, furious at Finn for insisting on stormtroopers' right to self-determination, assigns him a convict who's had his ability to access the Force stolen from him: Kylo Ren.

Then shit really starts getting weird.

Nectar and milk flow freely, and the wedding dances are wild.

The fever breaks that morning, spurring Tang Fan from the bridge between death and dreaming.

1977: Joubert and Turner cross paths again.

Sui Zhou must rise eventually, of course.

“If there is anything else that can be said of Qinghe Nie,” Lan Xichen recites, helplessly faint, “it is that we take our weddings and our burials very seriously—”

“—For they are, to us, one and the same,” Nie Huaisang finishes for him. “You do remember.”

Classes being disregarded, sinister genius and enthralled assistant wait for morning.

What's the best way to catch some radical socialist maple syrup thieves? Go undercover as a couple with a twee Brooklyn store, of course.

Everything is going to plan up until the precise moment it starts to fall apart.