When David Falkayn enters the Serendipity castle on the Moon, he is detained and brainwashed and has to be rescued by Adzel who passes him directly to Chee Lan in Muddlin' Through. As soon as Falkayn is safely on board, Chee Lan starts debrainwashing him although they must meanwhile immediately depart for Beta Crucis. At Beta Crucis, after Falkayn and Chee Lan have destroyed a Shenn fleet and acquired the coordinates of the enemy home planet, Dathyna, they must depart at once for that planet where the action climaxes, my point being that in this narrative the action is non-stop with no pause for breath either between Falkayn's rescue and the departure to Beta Crucis or between the battle at Beta Crucis and the departure to Dathyna.
The novel is also unique in partnering Falkayn just with Chee Lan and Adzel instead with van Rijn. Obviously, other combinations of characters would have been possible.
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Kaor, Paul!
An esp. interesting part of the secret stay of Falkayn and Chee Lan on Dathyna was the archaeological work we see the latter doing. Esp. the evidence she dug up about how the Shenn was a comparatively recent mutation of the race which originally lived there. And how that new race exterminated the ancestral species. Grimly realistic, with analogs to our own race!
Ad astra! Sean
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