What I was trying to convey in the previous post was a sense of daily life in the future: morning routines and rituals even if these were in the home of the Grand Duchess, not of a Hermetian commoner/"Traver."
Sandra's bedroom opens onto a balcony from which she looks across Starfall to Daybreak Bay and the Auroral Ocean. Her breakfast room, when she strides there, is:
"...fragrant with cooking in the kitchen." (p. 51)
- although, unfortunately, we are not told what she and her son, Eric, consume apart from coffee. He stands as she enters in accordance with Hermetian custom. A waiter brings "...laden trays." (p. 52) The entire west wall is a window showing city buildings, farms and the Cloudhelm snowpeak above the horizon.
We learn some Hermetian speech patterns:
"'You jest, not?'" (p. 53)
Although human beings throughout Technic civilization speak Anglic, each planet has its distinctive turns of phrase which we learn to recognise.
A Wodenite, Captain Nadi of Supermetals, requests and receives audience with Grand Duchess Sandra. Like Coya Conyon Falkayn, who had appeared in Chapter I, Nadi was introduced in "Lodestar," which becomes the prequel to Mirkheim.
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