At this point I was almost expecting S. and Sola to just never meet again. Although I guess if you look at them as mirroring Jen and Eric, they'd HAVE to finally meet.

Also, I don't know why I didn't expect Sola to have been on board one of the other ships. She was obviously heavily involved in everything, based on the periodic sightings S. caught and the little bit Maelstrom could tell him about her. But I just hadn't made that assumption. It makes perfect sense, though, why she didn't seem alarmed when he got drugged and taken on board way back at the beginning of the book.

How did all of this start though? How did he originally get involved in everything? I've been wondering this whole time if maybe this was a fight he'd gotten tangentially involved in in his previous life, and made the decision to devote the rest of his life to it knowing the cost was forgetting his entire past (probably for the protection of loved ones). In which case it's too bad he can't at least know that this was in fact his choice. But of course, he would only have someone else's say-so that it was his choice. So what is that actually worth in his current state?

Will this ever get actually resolved? And does it count if the ending was of Filomela's choosing instead of Straka's?

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