Coya Conyon

"Lodestar."

Now that we are back in Coya Conyon's point of view (pov), I want stay in it as long as possible. I sympathize with Coya when she notices a value difference between her generation from that of her grandfather. During my childhood and teens in the fifties and sixties, our elders made a big deal of something called a "generation gap" although, later, in the late seventies and the eighties, I never experienced such a gap with my daughter - who was brought up completely differently. I once heard the suggestion that the only generation gap in history was between those born before or after the atom bomb. Van Rijn and Coya are born at different stages in the history of the Polesotechnic League. He saw freedom. She sees monopolization.

It is not completely accurate (see previous post) that Coya remains the pov character throughout the rest of the narrative. On pp. 379-280, van Rijn and Hirharouk argue although their confrontation is described from neither of their povs. The omniscient narrator steps in again. The Ythrian captain's large, golden eyes and the Master Merchant's small, black ones give look for look but the reader does not look out through either of these sets of eyes. Then Coya enters her grandfather's stateroom and regards them both. We are back in her pov to which we will probably return some time tomoz.

Fair winds forever.