Chapters 177-180: Total failure to wait until the point when the expected costs of maintaining diplomacy rise too high as compared to the expected benefits of moving first in conflict.
Reacher Trailer
Fast-Talking High-Trousers
For next week — 181-184
181. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
182. Painless
183. Transgressions
184. The Further Adventures of Valencia the Red
Cakoluchiam’s stellar Character Sheet
Steven’s Predictions – Everything is a Clue
Worth the Candle can be read at AO3 or RoyalRoad.
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Amusing sidenote: because “castle” and “lock” have the same word in German, the terms “included” and “excluded” translate as “eingeschlossen” and “ausgeschlossen” (locked in/locked out), which badly backtranslates as “schlossed in”/”schlossed out”. Coincidence?? I think … yeah, probably. Sure would be cool if the Schloss did exclusions tho.
Also the reference of Big Stick Diplomacy is to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy .