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This page contains a chapter by chapter summary of '''''[[Evershore (novella)|Evershore]]'''''. We hope this summary will make it easier to find specific areas of the book, as well as providing a quick plot refresher for anyone who doesn't want to take the time to reread the entire book.
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The day of
== Chapter 1 ==
* [[Winter]] (mentioned only)
* [[Gran-Gran]] (mentioned only)
* [[Matthew Cobb]] (mentioned only)
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Two days later, Alanik still hasn’t been able to find Gran-Gran and Cobb. Alanik and Jorgen discuss allocation of pilots between ReDawn and Detritus, and what happened to Gran-Gran and Cobb. Cuna wonders if they were killed somehow, but Jorgen asserts that they are alive. Jorgen offers to help Alanik with searching for Gran-Gran, and they leave to a different room, Alanik saying that the conference room’s chairs are too square for her liking.
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Alanik takes Jorgen to a room where she has a special UrDail chair set up, which was placed there at Arturo’s suggestion. Alanik guides
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Jorgen and Alanik go to visit Stoff in his office, and inform him of Kauri’s communication. Stoff says that he’d like to speak to them using the hypercomm, and Jorgen says that they should try to make an alliance with the kitsen, again using Cobb’s authority to back up his proposal. Stoff agrees to let Jorgen take point, and Jorgen and Alanik go to inform Cuna of the communication. Cuna thinks that the communication is authentic, and agrees to join them as they talk with Kauri again. Thirty minutes later, Jorgen, Alanik, Stoff, Cuna, and three others gather in the conference room to speak with Kauri via hypercomm.
Kauri tells them that two humans hyperjumped to their planet a few days ago, and that the kitsen stole a Superiority hypercomm to try and contact Spensa. Alanik quests out with her senses, but doesn’t feel Gran-Gran anywhere near the broadcast’s source. Kauri reports that the humans are unconscious, though their medical experts aren’t sure how to treat them. She describes the two humans, who match Gran-Gran and Cobb’s appearance. Kauri invites the humans to come to the kitsen planet and come retrieve their humans for medical attention. Stoff gives his permission for Jorgen, Alanik, and Skyward Flight to go.
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Skyward Flight hyperjumps to Evershore, which is massive and covered with water. As the flight and the medical transport make their approach, Kauri greets them over the radio and welcomes them to Evershore. She tells them to meet her at the Burrow from Which Springs Dreams Both Sweet and Sorrowful, one of their cities, and sends them the coordinates. They land on an island, where a kitsen ship waits. Kauri and her flight exit the ship, and they exchange introductions. Jorgen
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The group goes up to the city of Dreamspring, and Jorgen leaves the taynix behind in their boxes. As they walk through the city, Jorgen sees that the humans are giants to the kitsen, who are largely oblivious to the war against the Superiority. Jorgen feels guilty for bringing conflict to Evershore, and many of the kitsen are suspicious of them. Jorgen has Kauri take them to Gran-Gran and Cobb, and Alanik can’t feel any cytonic signal from Gran-Gran, and they wonder what is happening. They decide to wait until after the senate meeting before leaving with Cobb and Gran-Gran.
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When they returned to the feast, Jorgen found the other members of Skyward Flight helping prepare food. Kauri had thought it rude of the kitsen to have their guests working, but FM had insisted. As the feast begins, Goro boasts that their full bellies will make them more easy for his champion to slay. Jorgen meets Juno, a kitsen lorekeeper. Jorgen asks Juno about the food, and about the dangers of sailing on the oceans. Jorgen
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* [[Adi]]
* [[Hesho]] (mentioned only)
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Jorgen, Skyward Flight, Kauri, Juno, and Goro attend a senate meeting for a discussion of the human’s proposal of an alliance, though Cuna doesn’t attend, largely becuase Jorgen worries about them offending the kitsen. Adi, the
After being invited to speak, Jorgen told the senate that he is sincere, and has no interest in fighting them. Jorgen let his mind wander as the senators debated, thinking of Spensa, and of his parents’ death. His emotions coil up inside of him, then explode outward in a spread of mindblades. Though they weren’t formed enough to badly injure any kitsen, the mindblades caused complete chaos in the senate meeting. Jorgen eventually got the senate’s attention, and tried to recover and ask the kitsen once again to join him, spinning his explosion as a show of the power he has at his disposal to use against the Superiority. He tells them of what happened to his parents and the National Assembly, then leaves abruptly.▼
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FM chases after Jorgen, making him sit down and talk about what happened with his parents, insisting he needs to talk about it, rather than bottling it all up inside of him. Jorgen tells FM about what happened on the ship in detail, and convinces Jorgen that their deaths weren’t his fault. They talk about Gran-Gran’s loss of power and the voices Jorgen hears calling for help, and Jorgen wonders if whatever happened to Gran-Gran is happening to him too. He meets with the members of Skyward Flight, and Juno tells Jorgen that he’d been studying mindblades his entire life. He volunteers to teach Jorgen to control and hone his powers, and Jorgen accepts. As Jorgen goes with Juno, he tells Alanik and the others to oversee Cobb and Gran-Gran’s safe return to Detritus.
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Jorgen sits cross-legged atop the cliff above Dreamspring, Juno hovering nearby and reading exercises
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* [[Arturo Mendez]]
* [[Kel]]
* [[Winnow (
* [[Matthew Cobb]]
* [[Becca Nightshade]]
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Jorgen arrives at the medical tent, and one of the med techs reports that when they tried to move Cobb and Gran-Gran, their condition deteriorated rapidly
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Skyward Flight runs for their ships, and Jorgen fetches the taynix. Juno joins him in the cockpit of his fighter. He and Alanik cover their flightmates as they get into the air. Juno calmly reads meditation exercises from his book as Jorgen dogfights, and Jorgen manages to cut down several enemy ships with his mindblades. Goro arrives to help, temporarily setting aside his grudge with Jorgen. Jorgen has the flight protect Dreamspring, trying to
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Jorgen and FM arrive on Detritus, and meet up with Rig. They go to Vice Admiral Stoff’s quarters, waking him up and explaining the situation to him. Stoff gives Jorgen almost full authority, allowing him to bring Wandering Leaf to Evershore to help, as well as several DDF flights. Jorgen recognizes that Stoff is giving him so much leeway so that he can avoid responsibility for Jorgen’s actions if things go wrong. Jorgen orders Rig to work on getting engineers to the outer platforms’ control center, and Jorgen expresses frustration with Stoff. Jorgen is doubting his ability to make
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* [[Robin]]
* [[Gilaf]]
* [[Bob (
* [[Whiskers]]
* [[Naga]]
Jorgen orders three DDF flights to prepare for combat, and prepares Wandering Leaf for departure. When everyone is ready, and Jorgen sends all the pilots to Alanik’s location. Another Superiority carrier arrives, and Wandering Leaf hyperjumps to Evershore. Jorgen commands all the flights, focusing on defending Dreamspring and the other kitsen cities. Alanik sends Juno back to Jorgen’s ship using her slug. Jorgen uses Wandering Leaf’s hyper weapon to destroy one of the carriers, along with several ships. Another carrier arrives, whose fighters include a cytonic with mindblades. An enemy Superiority ship with a planetary weapon arrives, and fires on Wandering Leaf’s shields. The shield breaks, leaving the platform exposed.
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* [[Alanik]]
* [[Freyja Marten]]
* [[Rodge McCaffery]]
* [[Arturo Mendez]]
* [[Nedd Strong]]
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Nedd flies in to save Jorgen and Juno, and Jorgen grabs the slugs he had brought. He and Juno hop into Nedd’s ship, and Nedd drops them off at Jorgen’s ship back on the beach. Though the planetary weapon
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As Rig and the other engineers try to get slugs into the right boxes, Alanik and Jorgen fill each other in. Jorgen manages to cytonically speak to Rig in his mind. Jorgen and Juno go back to Evershore using Snuggles. He reaches to Detritus with his senses, summoning the slugs of the pilots ready to fly into combat. The new flights of ships appear, aiding as more Superiority reinforcements engage. Rinakin also sends ships to support the kitsen, wanting to secure an alliance with them. Jorgen tells Juno he needs to inspect the portal in the kitsen library.
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* [[Kauri]]
* [[Kel]]
* [[Winnow (Skyward)|Winnow]]
* [[Gran-Gran]]
* [[Matthew Cobb]]
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Jorgen uses Snuggles to get to the library faster, and inspects the portal closely. He becomes sure that Gran-Gran’s soul or spirit is trapped beyond the portal, along with Cobb and the old kitsen cytonics. Jorgen quests out with his cytonic senses, looking for Spensa, and gets a vague image of her. He communicates with Doomslug, who gives off a feeling of sadness and loneliness. Jorgen tries to figure out how to enter the nowhere without passing back out immediately, like he does with hyperjumps. Gran-Gran speaks with him cytonically, saying that she heard the voices and hyperjumped to them, only to become trapped with the kitsen cytonics. Jorgen discovers that the portal is locked on both sides, and Gran-Gran tells Jorgen that he is different than Spensa, but still in a good way. As Jorgen focuses on the portal, he
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* [[Alanik]]
* [[Kel]]
* [[Winnow (Skyward)|Winnow]]
* [[Matthew Cobb]]
* [[Gran-Gran]]
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As more kitsen come through the portal, Cobb and Gran-Gran begin to
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Jorgen orders members of his flight to evacuate as many kitsen civilians as possible, with as many transports as they can find. Jorgen talks briefly with Rig, and learns that Juno is writing an account of Jorgen’s actions. Jorgen hyperjumps them to Rig, again filling him in. He tells Rig that they need to get as many platforms to Evershore as they can, as fast as possible. Jorgen communicates his intent to Fine, who communicates with the slugs in the boxes. All the slugs hyperjump, and Jorgen looks outside. He sees not only Evershore, but also Detritus itself. He realizes that not only did they bring several platforms to Evershore, but they brought the entire planet of Detritus.
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Powered by the many boomslugs in their boxes, the many platforms begin to fire hyper weapons, shredding enemy ships with massive mindblades. Rig realizes that the can move the planet with the command platforms navigation system, and he and the other engineers try to figure it out. Kauri radios Jorgen and tells him that the arrival of Detritus is causing a massive tidal wave to form on Evershore, and that their planets might rip each other apart. Rig guesses that the planets aren’t ripping each other apart because Detritus is equipped with some kind of GravCap system. Rig and his engineers work on setting up coordinates for the platforms, and begins sending them to protect various locations on Evershore. Though Rig starts moving Detritus away, Kauri reports that the tidal wave will still hit Dreamspring. Jorgen warns the medtechs, saying he may have to get them out. Jorgen gathers up Fine and several other commslugs, showing them the battle. He sends out feelings of confidence and strength to their allies, and Fine and the others help boost his signal. The Superiority forces begin to lose soundly, and eventually they retreat back to their carriers, which hyperjump away.
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* [[Jorgen Weight]]
* [[Freyja Marten]]
* [[Juno]]
* [[Matthew Cobb]]
* [[Becca Nightshade]]
* [[Stoff]]
* [[Kel]]
* [[Winnow (Skyward)|Winnow]]
* [[Rodge McCaffery]] (mentioned only)
* [[Jeshua Weight]] (mentioned only)
* [[Algernon Weight]] (mentioned only)
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After the battle, Jorgen overlooks the city of Dreamspring. Though its lower structures are heavily damaged, the main upper city remains mostly unharmed. Jorgen apologizes to Juno for what happened, then goes down to meet Stoff, who is arriving. As Cobb walks up, Jorgen decides not to expose Stoff’s cowardice. FM, however, speaks bluntly and honestly to Cobb, saying that he dumped all the responsibility on Jorgen. Cobb reprimands Stoff, and tells him to leave. FM also leaves at Cobb’s request, and Jorgen apologizes to Cobb for acting rashly. Cobb tells Jorgen that he had been awake for a while, listening in on the radio, but hadn’t let the medtechs tell Jorgen lest it distract him. Cobb decides to promote Jorgen to vice admiral, which is a shock to Jorgen. Cobb also decides to retire from service, at least for a time, and gives operational command to Jorgen. Cobb reasons that Jorgen and his flight have the most experience with other planets and the Superiority now, and that people who don’t want to take control make the best leaders. Cobb tells Jorgen that his parents would’ve been proud of him, and Jorgen breaks down crying. Cobb comforts him, and tells him he can do what he wishes with Stoff. Jorgen decides to relieve Stoff of his position, but to not punish him further.
== Epilogue ==
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* [[Jorgen Weight]]
* [[Freyja Marten]]
* [[Cuna]]
* [[Goro]]
* [[Rodge McCaffery]] (mentioned only)
* [[Arturo Mendez]] (mentioned only)
▲* [[Matthew Cobb]] (mentioned only)
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Jorgen leaves Cobb, talking to Goro and Cuna about the affects of the battle. Goro gives Jorgen his support. Jorgen talks with FM, and fills her in on his promotion. With him no longer able to fly into combat with Skyward Flight, Jorgen decides to put Arturo in charge of the flight. Jorgen wants to put FM in charge of Detritus’ diplomatic program, which means her stepping down from active duty like him. FM doesn’t like the idea of Skyward Flight going on into battle without her to protect them, but she agrees to do it. FM leaves to go tell Rig, and Jorgen is left by himself. He thinks about Spensa, wishing he could talk to her. He reaches out with his senses, and can feel Doomslug, and how she is worried about Spensa. He thinks about how Spensa isn’t the only one who can pull off impossible tasks, and is determined to make sure she has a home to come back to when she returns.
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