Megan Quire believes in people. This is not a naive position so much as a rigorously maintained one — she has encountered evidence against it repeatedly, processed that evidence carefully, and arrived back at belief through a route that cannot entirely be explained.
Her airy ideas of diplomacy and protocol prove, in practice, as useful as they are naive. Both things are true. The naivety allows her to approach situations others have written off, to find solutions that only look obvious after the fact.
She has equal disdain for all organized religion, which she maintains with the consistency of someone who has thought carefully about it. She will later join a xenophiliac church. She does not see this as a contradiction.
After Outriding's passing, something in Megan shifts from academic to pastoral. She accompanies Theodore back to the City of Earth to take the fight to the place where she can do the most good.
| Personnel | Relationship Dynamics |
|---|---|
| Theodore Castelline | She accompanies him back to the City of Earth. Their directions have aligned, if not always their methods. |
| Corinna-Rae Salter | Megan initially finds Corinna-Rae's rule-based methods effective. Then things change. They remain professionally functional. |
She goes where he goes, in the end. The City of Earth. The next thing.
View dossier → Corinna-Rae SalterOpposite methods. Adjacent goals. The tension is productive when it isn't maddening.
View dossier → The Broader WorldHer constituency. The people diplomacy is actually for. She is going toward them.
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