Zeal
A short man — under four feet tall, with normal-sized head and shorter limbs, dark brown eyes — who leads the raid party that broke into Glowing Eyes' arena. From Beacon he commanded Rebeke by radio not to chase her sister; he is the one who carries back the metal disc the heist was actually meant to recover, and is gentle but firm in his rebuke of her recklessness. STD:TSM:Ch 7
Known facts
- field-commanderFunctions as something like Beacon's field commander and special-ops planner; it is he, not the Greater Good, who runs the city's raids.STD:TSM:Ch 19
Events
- STD:TSM:Ch 7 Greets the docked hovercycle with a red hand-lantern, rebukes Rebeke for her recklessness, orders Thomos sent to the healers, and brings Nomad in to be presented to the council.
- STD:TSM:Ch 8 Pulls his own chair to the table and unwraps the recovered metal disc for the Greater Good.
- STD:TSM:Ch 10 Still at the council table when Nomad returns; among those who stumble back from the table at his fluent return.
- STD:TSM:Ch 11 Stays warily across the table with the bracer remote in his pocket, proposes accepting Nomad's help, then fetches and operates the attuner that gets the bracers off Nomad's arms.
- STD:TSM:Ch 19 Attends the meeting in his field-commander capacity; reports on the Cinder King's guards along the northern flank, gives the history of the mountains in this corridor, and closes the debate by telling Confidence that without a dream they will be worn down regardless.
- STD:TSM:Ch 22 Brought along by the Greater Good as the city's hallowed-ground escort. Explains the Reliquary to Nomad — how the Chorus fabricates, how mist is divided when new settlements found themselves — and arranges snacks while the engine parts are being made.
- STD:TSM:Ch 23 Stands with Nomad and the Greater Good for the engine test and the council afterward, helping interpret Nomad's requests for the ship-stripping plan.
- STD:TSM:Ch 25 Brings the bracer control device, knocks Elegy unconscious so they can rechain her, marvels that a Charred just spoke, and reads the call-to-gather horns at the chapter's close: the surplus ships are to be dumped now to save power.
- STD:TSM:Ch 41 On the radio from one of the other gunships during the breakthrough.
- STD:TSM:Ch 42 Pilots one of the gunships boarded by Charred; Zellion and Elegy clear his deck.
- STD:TSM:Ch 43 Hands Zellion the small access disc at the edge of the buried Refuge plate.
Backreferences
- factfreeze bracers
- factRebeke Salvage
- factThomos
- factAdonalsium-Will-Remember-Our-Plight-Eventually
- factBeacon
- factthe Greater Good
- factJeffrey Jeffrey
- factScadrians
- factthe access disc
- factSunlit Man
- factSigzil
- factthe access disc
- factthe Chorus
- factthe Reliquary
- factBeacon
- factthe Chorus
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 32
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 33
- factHardy
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 34
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 35
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 36
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 37
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 38
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 40
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 41
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 42
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 43
- factRefugee and Lost Expatriate Bill of Silverlight Codes of Interplanetary Conduct
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 45