After Caleb’s memorial service Beau has all kinds of people coming up to her and commiserating with her (because apparently she’s more approachable than Veth?) One of the more odd ones is a young woman who introduces herself as Inge Deshin, owner and proprietor of Chastity’s Nook. And, lost in grief-fuelled nostalgia it takes Beau a moment to realise that Inge is asking about manuscripts.
“I have his contract in here somewhere - I was due two of them. The working titles were...”Fade to feathers” and “Kissed with sunlight”. I will pay for them, of course - I understand he’s being buried somewhere outside the empire? If need be, I’m more than happy to something towards the funerary costs.”
And thus, the Nein learn about Caleb’s secret life as Una Phillips; popular erotica author and pioneer of the Edubation sub-genre.
Essek not only helps them find said manuscripts, but reveals that he was Caleb’s collaborator (under the name Lela Lovelace) on hie re-imagining “The Courting of the Kryn”.
