[1899] I'll deal with him.

[todd]

I wonder if Tom did work out exactly how old Surma and Antony were in this chapter, whether it came before or after the closing flashback of Chapter Eighteen, etc., and the other timeline questions that kept cropping up here, or not.

[fish]

Oct 23, 2017 8:08:09 GMT snowflake said:

Oct 23, 2017 1:00:35 GMT Noka said:

Kind of the most impressively well-planned thing I've now realized is that this plays perfectly into the fact that Annie and Surma could never be apart: once Surma died, Annie was sent off to the Court... so Annie has never before actually spent time alone with her father. Not counting the time she spends at the court, where he sees double and all.

Annie and Surma couldn't be apart, but not to the point you couldn't get one of them alone in a room. If psychopomps could take Annie with them on their missions without Surma, then her father could have spent some time with her.

In fact, he taught her some self defense. We don't know for certain there was no one else around for that, but I think it's implied. Like most things in Tony's story arc. So many implications.