Chapter Seventeen

When Michael meets with Vapor, he’s starting to understand how deep the rabbithole goes.  But the lalassu are no Wonderland.  He’s starting to grasp that this is an entirely different world with entirely different rules than the ones he knows.

Having Michael read Dalhard’s location from the jacket fragment was a late inspiration.  I’d been struggling for weeks with how to get Michael and Dani to where Dalhard was without the whole thing seeming contrived and awkward.  Remembering that Michael would be able to pull the information directly sped up the pace and let me get rid of a number of improbably coincidences.