Hooray! I've been looking forward to this ever since Pico. And it's very gratifying to find that it isn't at all what I expected! There's much less of Avon and hardly any of Carnell, and really, it's a love story (although a love story that happens more in the spaces in between events than in the events themselves). I predict that Soolin's sister will be recued and her memories recovered, but at the moment I'm relishing the pain of Soolin's having found her, only for her to seem more lost than ever.
I do like your Soolin. She gets some wonderful lines ("I seem to be attached to another man"). And I like the way she does nothing to let Vila know her she feels - it seems to me very in character that her utter self-reliance, her refusal to show any weakness, actually makes her life harder because it prevents her from admitting how she feels.
My favourite bit, though, was the exchange about the troopers' underwear :-) That was marvellously unexpected (although come to think of it, underwear is a sort of Vila leitmotif. I remember him speculating on what everyone wore on the Liberator, not to mention his family motto!).
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I do like your Soolin. She gets some wonderful lines ("I seem to be attached to another man"). And I like the way she does nothing to let Vila know her she feels - it seems to me very in character that her utter self-reliance, her refusal to show any weakness, actually makes her life harder because it prevents her from admitting how she feels.
My favourite bit, though, was the exchange about the troopers' underwear :-) That was marvellously unexpected (although come to think of it, underwear is a sort of Vila leitmotif. I remember him speculating on what everyone wore on the Liberator, not to mention his family motto!).