Sure it would be nice to see Dahani & Jyslin go down on each other but thats not the point.
What we should be concentrating on is how Jason deals with the Dahani and her court and the other Faey house elders. Jason has been commanded to be present at dahani's court for several months to give him an idea of how things work amongst the upper classes of the faey hierarchy.
He is going to see first hand the conniving and manipulation of the faey nobles.
Not that this is a bad thing it will give him some real world political experience which he badly needs. I know house Mother Zaa gave him a knowledge of the faey imperium politics but he must learn to apply that.
Jason's House Karrine is considered a house minor so I have no doubt that he will be thrown in amongst the minor houses. Most likely they will look to him as a spokesman against the Houses Major. They will see that he gave the trillanes a black eye and the fact that he has the empresses favour.
I think that there is ample room to start making the changes necessary to help the imperium, individually the Houses Minor may have a small voice but combined I think that they could be a big stick indeed.
The problem is that with the Houses Major building up for civil war can any changes he effects do any good
There are other things on Jasons plate as well.
Denmother Zaa told Jason that the Karrines has alliances with the other races not allied to the Imperium. With the resurgence of House Karrine I suspect that they will be wanting some of Jasons time and help.
Then of course there is Karris and the CBIM Cybi. I think that Cybi holds more than Jason realises. Although Jason and Cybi were in communion for some time I doubt that he managed to more than scratch the depth of what the House Karrine had developed.
Admittedly Karrine tech is way in advance of the Imperium - however there is always a gap between pure theory and application. I supsect that when Jason goes looking he will be very suprised indeed.
Jason also has to cope with Dahani I think that she suspects that the Karrine tech is greatly in advance of currect faey tech even though it is 1500 years old. I mean she would have to be stupid not to realise it.
Jasons little Nova was as fast as anything currently in production.
His ship took metaphased plasma blasts both on shields and the hull, neither which the imperium can do.
If Dahani had observers in earthspace (and she did) then she would also realise that Jasons ship managed the hyper-space jump in real-time without the effects of time dilation.
Also something fel has been QT about is those hyper-space transport effects that Jason has been experiencing. The Karrines were very good with hyper-space something the imperium virtually ignores. Maybe there's something there
Jason also has to come up with an answer for those millions of humans trapped on Uruma the Urumi are not friends of the imperium and House Merraine.
Hang on a minute maybe one of those old alliances of House Karrine was with the Urumi be a neat way out of the problem, eh Fel.
Anyway let me know what you think.
AMPWS