Move 18 Recap

On the Wasp: Gerae and Virmad

Gerae thanks Virmad effusively, and tells him, "I was starting to fear that I'd be left here to starve to death... It's been a harrowing few weeks. I honestly was starting to think my luck had plunged me from bad to worse."

Outside Medical: Alaric, Fluffy, Crowned-With-Eyes, Mikodez, and Sulen

Fluffy and the mothling Crowned-With-Eyes escape Mikodez' grasp. Sulen drops the drugged drink they are holding to grab at the mothling, who evades them. (They deeply regret the mess.) Alaric, startled, allows his null calendrical field to flare. Mikodez restores Fluffy to her cage, discusses the properties of voidmoths with Alaric, and gives the black Andan fabric to Sulen, who uses the fabric to trap the mothling. A puff of glitter that Mikodez had previously dumped on Crowned-With-Eyes materializes from nowhere. Alaric films the excitement on his lokwor.

A nurse threatens to call security if Mikodez and associated creatures don't stop making noise. Mikodez pleads for information about his "cousin" Istradez, to no avail. He then asks Alaric for information about other moths; Alaric suggests returning to the ship, to place the mothling in the prepared "moth biome". Sulen instructs Alaric to check on the injured Imsayed (Istradez); he complies.

Mikodez asks Sulen, "Will you use your Rahal powers on the moths?" Sulen is confused. They ask Mikodez how they obtained the moth. Mikodez states, "I found it hiding in the display supplies when I got back to the visitor quarters," which is technically not a lie. After some discussion, Mikodez holds his pack open and Sulen returns the mothling and the fabric to it; Sulen does not observe the other contents of Mikodez' pack.