In The Flying Hold

"Lodestar."

A large hold in an Ythrian spaceship serves two purposes. Ythrians need it to fly around in and it is also:

"...the sole chamber aboard which could comfortably accommodate Adzel." (p. 365)

It is where Falkayn confronts van Rijn and where the latter realizes that his protege and his granddaughter are becoming a couple. While van Rijn looks at Falkayn and Coya:

"...upon him were the eyes of Adzel, Chee, and Hirharouk the sky dweller." (p. 367)

It is fitting that an Ythrian also is present. Falkayn, Adzel and Chee Lan are van Rijn's first trade pioneer crew. Coya is his granddaughter. Hirharouk is the Ythrian of Wryfields Choth whose spaceship has brought van Rijn and Coya to Eka-World/Lodestar/Mirkheim where they meet Falkayn and the others. A tense confrontation is followed by an agreement. Hloch refers to "David and Coya Conyon/Falkayn..." (p. 368) in his next interstitial passage and, two pages after that, David Falkayn is referred to as a grandfather! Fictional biographies are merging back into future history. We regret the passage of the characters but not yet the end of the Technic History.