Castelar And Varagan Escape, Lucifer Falls

"The Year of the Ransom" is carefully slotted into its place in Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series. Castelar, escaping from the Exaltationists, stabs Merau Varagan but:

"...wasted no time finishing him." (p. 666)

Castelar cannot finish Varagan because Everard must apprehend the latter in "Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks." However, by the same token, Varagan's wound is so bad that two of his men immediately whisk him off for medical attention elsewhen which means that they are not in Macchu Picchu to be apprehended by the Patrol agents who attack as soon as Castelar has escaped. Again, Varagan has to be around later so he cannot be apprehended now.

Not every loose end is tied up satisfactorily but these are.

Now I must eat some curry and return to reading Neil Gaiman and maybe also some of Mike Carey who inherited the retired Lucifer Morningstar from Gaiman. 

In "The Year of the Ransom," an Exaltationist who had been hovering on a timecycle above Macchu Picchu:

"...fell as Lucifer fell." (p. 721)

Sometimes all fiction feels like a single series.