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What a cliffhanger! The tension between these two is interesting.

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Lola’s ideal fantasy of living in Palinor is constantly colliding with the more complicated reality, and that’s never more so than with Darya.

Thanks for reading! I’m off to record the audio version for this week’s follow-up…..

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Yeah, but sometimes you need the scene where the characters converse about things so we know who knows what, etc.

Flashback isn't inherently cheap. Like any literary trope it's all in how it's wielded. In this case it's pretty necessary, given the time jump. It's either that or watching Lola Story Time as she tells Clarke, et.al the tale.

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