Diamond Mask
Names: Diamond MaskDorothea MacdonaldIllusio Diamond MaskDiamondDorotheaDorothéeSaint IllusionDeeDorothea Mary Strachan MacdonaldDodyIllusioDirigentDorrieDoroDodoDorothée MacdonaldLittle Dorriethe little girlBaby DodoDaddy's Little PrincessDee Macdonaldthe childSuryathe GirlDorothea Mary MacdonaldMakana LaniMakana LarriDirigent LassieDirigent MacdonaldMadame DirigentLittle Diamond MaskDirigent of CaledoniaSainte Dorothée Masque-des-DiamantsMadam DirigentZan DegolaDirigent Dorothea MacdonaldLassieCallie
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 2Diamond Mask is a woman whose life was entwined with the Remillard family.
- Ch 54Dorothea Macdonald is known to Milieu historians as Illusio Diamond Mask.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 47Dirigent of Caledonia, known as Diamond Mask, she eventually neutralized the Hydra threat.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1She is the subject of the next part of Rogi's memoirs and, he thinks, the reason he was drawn to Kauai.
- Ch 1She always wore a mask, even in youth when her face was bare; Rogi calls her Saint Illusion.
- Ch 4Dee is a five-year-old prodigy who loves birds and fears her own latent mindpowers, resisting adults' attempts to force her to become operant.
- Ch 4Dee imagines her mind as a dark cellar of locked glassy boxes, each holding a dangerous metapsychic power, guarded by a mute guardian angel.
- Ch 4As a toddler, Dee freed her midnight-blue shielding faculty after someone told her the secret word; it became her strong mental screen.
- Ch 4Prompted by Ken, Dee opens her rose-colored box and unleashes self-redaction, curing her seasickness. She resolves to keep it secret from the adults.
- Ch 4Dee is a five-year-old latent (non-operant) child who describes herself as a child prodigy; her mind-screen holds firm against strong probes.
- Ch 4Dee feels vague disquiet about Islay that she keeps walled away inside herself.
- Ch 4Dee has begun scrollo keyboard lessons and is painfully shy about playing in front of adults.
- Ch 4Dee dozed on the ferry and vividly dreamed the Kilnave Fiend story as Magdala MacKendal told it, feeling unaccountably uneasy afterward.
- Ch 4Dee found that the illustrations in the book exactly matched the images she had dreamed, and she plans to return the book to Magdala.
- Ch 5Born and christened in 2057 on Caledonia, she was latent but healthy, with a prodigious mentality and extraordinary suboperant metafaculties that might be released by proper stimuli.
- Ch 5She is known by many names, which the narrator calls part of her mask; Lylmik called her Illusio, Jack the Bodiless named her Diamond.
- Ch 5She later assumed the metapsychic leadership of Caledonia, after which people styled her Dirigent.
- Ch 5Her father Ian feared her hidden mental faculties and would have preferred a brawny second son; she disliked the name Dorrie.
- Ch 5Caledonia lacked facilities to evaluate and treat her, so she would have to be taken to Earth.
- Ch 5Dorothea is Viola's daughter, whom Viola believed had enormous mental potential.
- Ch 6Dee has a new self-redactive faculty, used to delete unpleasant feelings, and she is keeping it secret from her mother.
- Ch 6Dee repeatedly feels foreboding on Islay and is probed by a powerful exotic mind-prober, which she resists with her mind-screen.
- Ch 6Dee lacks farsight, and uses this as an excuse to hide that the mind-prober has returned.
- Ch 6Dee is terrified of exotics like the Krondaku, as most young Earthlings are.
- Ch 6Five-year-old Dee has a strong latent mental shield, a blue armor strengthened by a redactive 'rosy pool', which blocks the unknown mind-prober.
- Ch 6Dee glimpsed a small, bandy-legged, black-bearded figure among rocks and took it to be the Dubh Sìth; she told no adult.
- Ch 6Dee deduced the evil presence and mind-probing came from people in the MacGregor farmhouse, but Ken refused to believe her.
- Ch 6Dee dreamed she was a gyrfalcon watching her mother, uncle and aunt die to a four-headed monster, and was hurt as she attacked it.
- Ch 6Dee has the metafaculty of prolepsis, foresensed disaster, and saw the Kilnave Fiend's four human faces, two of them people she met on the ferry.
- Ch 6Dee shuts Lek's mind probing out of her mind and decides she and Ken will live with their father on Caledonia.
- Ch 6Dee finds she suddenly cannot remember the faces of her mother, aunt and uncle, though she remembers them.
- Ch 7Five-year-old who refused mind-probing because doctors had hurt her before, citing the law and permitting only 'the angel' inside her mind.
- Ch 7Her aura tested normal for a nonoperant, so she was not a creature of Fury; Paul and Throma'eloo thought her dream was an out-of-body experience.
- Ch 9Dee is a five-year-old girl who gained the power to farsense (hear thoughts) the night her mother was killed on Islay, and she is hiding it.
- Ch 9Dee fears that if Gran learns she is telepathic, she will be sent back to therapists on Earth and kept from living with her father.
- Ch 9Dee can self-redact, a power she has hidden. She tells Gran it began on the ferry to Islay, when she wished away seasickness.
- Ch 9Dee has an angel she talks to that helps her hold up her mind-screen, though the angel stays silent.
- Ch 9Dee treasures a rhinestone domino-mask lapel pin she found on an Edinburgh sidewalk, believing the stones are real diamonds.
- Ch 9Dee plans to plant an acorn from her mother's funeral on her father's Caledonian farm.
- Ch 9Dee fakes injecting the minidoser, dropping it into her couch, so her mind-screen stays up when the ship enters hyperspace.
- Ch 9Dee is secretly an operant capable of farspeech and ultrasensitive, and she hides her powers from her grandmother so she can stay with her father on Caledonia.
- Ch 9Dee avoided the painkiller dose given to nonoperant children by redacting herself against the pain, and she can eavesdrop on other passengers' telepathic chatter.
- Ch 10Dee is a five-year-old telepath who finds her immature ultrasense growing more sensitive; she can understand spoken Gaelic by farsensing meaning, though not written Gaelic.
- Ch 10Dee hides her mind behind an adamant mind-screen, and uses her redaction to avoid airsickness during aerobatics.
- Ch 10Dee can read minds and understands Gaelic; she overhears upsetting thoughts and learns her father Ian wishes the children hadn't come.
- Ch 10Dee begs the angel to take her powers away or help her win her father's love, then is put to sleep and forgets the conversation.
- Ch 10Dee reads minds and uses farspeech, but resolves to hide these abilities from her father so he will find her lovable.
- Ch 10Dee has a personal healing redaction that works, but her powerful external redaction, able to change other minds and bodies, remains locked in an imaginary box.
- Ch 10Dee does not know what a 'nonborn' is; Masha avoided explaining it, and the ship's library had no entry.
- Ch 10Dee uses a new mindpower, a redaction felt as an invisible crimson flood, to ease her father's pain, hiding it behind her blue mental armor.
- Ch 10Dee believes her father will never know she touched his mind, and she intends to hide the new power from Gran Masha.
- Ch 10Dee silently asks her father if she may stay with him even if he cannot love her.
- Ch 12Dorothea is a girl on Caledonia whose suboperant metafaculties equal Jack's in potential, though her mental patterns are fully human.
- Ch 14Ten in 2067, living on a remote Caledonia farm and not fully operant, she has never answered Jack's telepathic calls; the Lylmik hinted she has paramount potential.
- Ch 14Her father and grandparents are committed Rebel separatists, and she loves them deeply.
- Ch 15Dee turns eleven and flies her first full day of airplant harvest, piloting the old yellow flitter The Big Cheese.
- Ch 15Dee secretly hides her operant powers, fearing Gran Masha and the latency therapists will force her back to Earth if she reveals them.
- Ch 15Dee has an inner mental guardian she calls her angel, who was silent for over a year after Jack's calls.
- Ch 15Dee secretly redacted the dying oak and her father's depression, uses healing only when necessary, and farspeaks only Ken.
- Ch 15Dee unwittingly used coercion on the fairy-critters, making them flee, and was dismayed that another 'box' might have opened.
- Ch 15Dee wears a lucky pin, a rhinestone-encrusted domino mask brought from Earth, and once betrayed herself to a man calling himself Ewen Cameron.
- Ch 15As a five-year-old newcomer she worked out from the database why rho-field eggs cannot harvest airplants, impressing Ian.
- Ch 15Dee's coercive faculty has become operant, and she is reluctant to use it, wanting to hide her powers and stay normal.
- Ch 15Dee saved her brother's falling fuselage by using psychokinesis to stop time briefly, untangle the parafoil, and steer it to a grassy islet.
- Ch 15After the rescue, Dee tried to lift her flitter and a rock with PK on purpose but barely moved the rock, concluding she has much to learn.
- Ch 15Dee does not eat meat, though Janet keeps putting bacon in her sandwiches.
- Ch 15Dee argues with and resists an inner voice she calls an angel, and suspects it of scheming with someone named Jack.
- Ch 16Dorothea, eleven, may have all five metapsychic faculties at levels beyond Grand Master, possibly a future paramount; she is devoted to her widowed father.
- Ch 17Dee has become operant and is leaving Caledonia for Earth for operant training, with her brother Ken, accompanied by Gran Masha.
- Ch 17Dee has used redaction to reduce her father's fear of her powers and to save the foal Cutach.
- Ch 17Dee decides to secretly let Fury keep visiting her dreams, hiding her thoughts from both Fury and her angel; her face turns to stone.
- Ch 17Dee has been ignoring mental calls from Jack, whose powerful mind frightened her; he says he is a boy living on Earth.
- Ch 17Dee loves Glen Tuath Farm, which her mother designed, and vows to return to Caledonia.
- Ch 17Dee is an eleven-year-old girl who has gone operant, with deepsight, farsight and ultrasense, and is leaving Caledonia for Earth.
- Ch 17Dee's metapsychic quotient is the highest ever recorded on Caledonia, a fact she did not know until Tutor MacDuffie told her.
- Ch 17Dee agrees to find out why her mother and the others were killed, saying she had planned to do it anyway.
- Ch 17Dee deliberately limits herself to reading only the outermost thoughts in her father's mind.
- Ch 17Dee makes clothes and jewelry; she wears a self-made Macdonald tartan skirt and brings a rhinestone mask pin and her silver flight suit to Earth.
- Ch 18Dorothée is a prodigy from Caledonia, entering Catherine Remillard's Preceptorial Institute in 2068; at twelve she was near-paramount but with latent creativity, redactive power and coercivity.
- Ch 18By fifteen she was a grandmasterclass-or-above metapsychic in all five higher faculties, expected to be nominated to the Concilium at sixteen, but she dreaded public revelation.
- Ch 18Dorothée admits she secretly probed Rogi and nearly all older Remillards, except Marc and Jack, to obtain life histories and psychosocial profiles for a private but important research project.
- Ch 18Dorothée has a mysterious antipathy toward Jack Remillard and has always refused to meet him face to face.
- Ch 18Dorothée secretly probed the minds of Rogi and other Remillards, and tells Rogi her private secret about her mother's death and Fury's dream visits.
- Ch 18Dorothée calculated probabilities that each Remillard is Fury, using material from their minds and Catherine's and Luc's professional insights.
- Ch 18Dorothée plans to go to Okanagon in disguise to covertly probe a suspected Hydra-unit, needing an adult companion; she picks Rogi.
- Ch 18Dorothée intends to deliberately reject Fury, provoking Hydra to attack her, so that knowing a unit's mental signature will let her be ready.
- Ch 18Dorothée perceived all four Hydra units with her ultrasenses just after the Scotland murders and remembers their mental 'song' but refuses to transfer the data to anyone.
- Ch 18Dorothée plans to probe a suspected Hydra-unit at Okanagon without his consent, so she can learn his true mental signature and track him by farsight.
- Ch 18Dorothée cannot report suspects to the Magistratum because her evidence would be illegally obtained, so she would have to let Hydra come after her.
- Ch 18Dorothée agrees to attend Marc's Halloween masquerade, mainly to examine the psyches of Marc and Jack, and will leave for Okanagon with Rogi the next day.
- Ch 19The Girl has a paramount potential not fully classified; the Lylmik have yet to initiate her, and she remains antipathetic toward Jack.
- Ch 19Diamond Mask wears a rhinestone-covered flight suit and mask; she secretly probed the clown's mind and wiped his memory of it.
- Ch 19Posing as a math and physics student, she used a probe to extract data from the clown's memories as she had with Dynasty members.
- Ch 19Jack farspoke the child Dorothea on Caledonia because a Lylmik told him she was a potential paramount and he hoped to befriend her.
- Ch 19Dorothea is a fifteen-year-old girl whose mind-screen withstood Marc's maximum-enhanced probe, which would have cracked a Krondaku Grand Master.
- Ch 19Dorothea refuses any dealings with Jack, and says she'd carry out a paramount's duties if the Lylmik magnatize her.
- Ch 19Dorothea slips through Denis Remillard's mindscreen while dancing and begins weaving a bypass structure.
- Ch 20Dee is almost sixteen (birthday January 20), a mathematician and Catholic with strong metapsychic powers, hunting the Hydra killers of her mother.
- Ch 20After the final dream, Dee refuses the Choice, intends to shut Fury out of her dreams, and plans to trap Hydra alone, telling neither Jack, Marc nor the Magistratum.
- Ch 20Dee believes Jack will find that Clinton Alvarez's DNA matches Quentin Remillard's, and that one Hydra is dead so only three remain.
- Ch 20Trapped in the Spouting Horn lava tube, Dee froze water to plug the blowhole and superheated the compression chamber, blasting herself and the supposed boy out to sea.
- Ch 20Dee's psychokinesis, once rated beyond grandmasterclass, had dwindled almost to nothing when she was exhausted and injured in the lava tube.
- Ch 21Dorothea, called Illusio, is planning to entice Hydra; the Supervisors vote to make her Deputy Dirigent of Caledonia if she survives.
- Ch 21Dorothea finds Jack's mutation repulsive and his manner cheeky; the Supervisors decide she must face Hydra alone.
- Ch 21Dorothea is a fifteen-year-old near-paramount metapsychic prodigy whom Fury is after; Hydras nearly caught her in Hawaii.
- Ch 22Dee has finished her doctoral dissertation, has only orals left, and is to be inaugurated into the Concilium on Orb in February.
- Ch 22A stubborn residue of latency in Dee's mind prevents her from using her full metafaculties and becoming a paramount.
- Ch 22Dee travels to Islay alone to relive her mother's murder and heal herself, and to face the Hydra alone.
- Ch 22Dee realises she wants to kill Hydra even more painfully than it killed her mother, and that her promise to her father was really a vow of vengeance.
- Ch 22Dee senses a weird aetheric warning on Islay whose source is neither Hydra nor Fury, perhaps many things, not threatening.
- Ch 22Dee minimizes eating flesh to spare higher animals, a choice mocked by Janet and the nonborns and by fellow Dartmouth students.
- Ch 22Dee found a chamber deep inside Falcon Cave containing thirty-three human skulls and many bones, adults and children, presumed victims of the Hydra.
- Ch 22Dee is a grandmasterclass metapsychic nominated to the Galactic Concilium, and a Grand Master Farseer.
- Ch 22Dee's right thigh was severely burned by a lightning-ball, so she diverted her mindpower into self-redaction and could not levitate.
- Ch 22Dee killed Celine's Hydra form by throwing stones, climbing with creativity-softened rock, and blasting the cave-wind to hurricane force, which expelled her from the tunnel.
- Ch 22After escaping, Dee planned to report to Inspector Chaimbeul and check into the hospital in Bowmore; she believed her mental inhibitory barriers had crumbled.
- Ch 23Her burn was healed within three days with help from Jack's redaction, though she was furious that Jack had shadowed her.
- Ch 23On her sixteenth birthday, 20 January 2073, she became a Magnate of the Concilium and a Paramount Grand Master in all five metafaculties.
- Ch 23Her maiden speech urged operants to renounce using mindpowers as weapons, even in self-defense.
- Ch 23She was named First Deputy Dirigent of Caledonia, which removed her from the forefront of Concilium politics; she tried to decline but the Lylmik insisted.
- Ch 23Beloved by normal Callie citizens as the 'Dirigent Lassie', she is relentless against swindlers and despoilers, yet privately feels like a fraud.
- Ch 23Helped Caledonia achieve a positive balance of payments, ending its dependence on Milieu subsidies.
- Ch 23Dorothée tries to recruit Marc and Jack to test new cerebroenergetic equipment on Caledonia's seismic problem, offering fishing as a welcome.
- Ch 23Dorothée becomes Planetary Dirigent of Caledonia, appointed by the Lylmik Supervisors, soon after Graeme Hamilton dies.
- Ch 24Dorothea, Dirigent of Caledonia, was appointed against her wishes and is anxious and exhausted over her world's possible destruction.
- Ch 24Dorothea is cool and prickly toward Jack, calls the project hopeless, and insists the final judgment is hers.
- Ch 24Is twenty years old and a paramount whose mind was calibrated by the Lylmik before they named her; she calls Rogi 'Uncle'.
- Ch 24Wears a gold chain with a small mask-charm as her talisman, hidden under her sweater.
- Ch 24Found a pea-sized blue-white diamond near Windlestrow Loch and gave it to Rogi, promising to have it cut as the Star of Windlestrow.
- Ch 25Dorothea is a Paramount Grand Master and Dirigent who pretended to be latent to avoid leaving Caledonia; she once loathed Jack's mutation.
- Ch 25During the descent Dorothea confided her troubled history, including her mother Viola's death and her encounters with Fury and the Hydras, and her loathing of Jack faded.
- Ch 25In the metaconcert Dorothea serves as the living lens focusing the creative energy Jack organizes, together forming the lid over the magma reservoir.
- Ch 25Diamond drew on uncalibrated metapsychic reserves of creativity, causing dysergism that overwhelmed the metaconcert design and destroyed the lid over the magma reservoir.
- Ch 25The flashover burned her lower face and respiratory system and damaged her nerves; she survives using an emergency positive-pressure oxygen mask.
- Ch 25Diamond realizes Jack came to Caledonia and risked his life because he loves her; Uncle Rogi had tried to tell her but she refused to listen.
- Ch 25Diamond remembers flying a funny old yellow flitter above her father's farm, and hopes to fly again.
- Ch 26Dorothea was gravely injured, with lung damage and a ruined lower face, but her eyes and hair were untouched by the mental fire.
- Ch 26She refused a regen-tank for the time being, deciding to restore her face later, and wore a diamond-decorated half-mask for breathing and feeding.
- Ch 26Her diamond mask and sparkling suit made her an icon of strength and authority; she wore such costumes until the end of her life.
Book 4: Magnificat
- Ch 3A Dirigent who helped save Caledonia and sent MulMul to Rogi; engaged to marry Jon Remillard; also attacked by Fury.
- Ch 5Dorothée is described as the most talented redactor in the Human Polity, better even than Jack.
- Ch 5Dorothea nearly died from a dysergistic flashover during the Caledonia operation using CE.
- Ch 7At twenty-one she is Planetary Dirigent of Caledonia, a paramount who personally performs redactive mind examinations in clemency hearings, sparing examinees the usual pain.
- Ch 7She wears a diamond-encrusted prosthetic half-mask made from diatreme diamonds, refusing regeneration-tank healing of her ruined face for unexplained reasons; her voice is produced psychokinetically.
- Ch 7She is engaged to Jack Remillard; their wedding is on Earth in two days, and they converse telepathically on the intimate mode.
- Ch 7She grew up on Beinn Bhiorach; her father Ian Macdonald is a vocal Rebel and its Intendant Associate, and she feels qualmish about lunching with him.
- Ch 7Dorothea is the Dirigent of Caledonia, wears a diamond mask and pseudovoice after the diatreme, and is engaged to marry Jack.
- Ch 7She showed her father her old face, then her true scarred, noseless skull, to prove a face is just a mask; he relented.
- Ch 9Diamond is Jack's bride, and Jack hopes for a sexual relationship with her that includes numinosity.
- Ch 10Dorothée designed her own wedding gown and cut her brooch diamond; her diamond mask vanishes when Jack lifts her veil.
- Ch 11Dorothea is Dirigent of Caledonia, a Scot who wears a jeweled mask and speaks by pseudovoice; her green-flash wish was to love Jack more.
- Ch 11Six years earlier Dorothea probed the Dynasty, rating Marc 74%, Anne 68%, Paul 64% as likely to be Fury; the Remillards then set up alarm barriers against her.
- Ch 11Dorothea found Denis's mind vast and complex, a sub-functional paramount in every metafaculty; he caught her probing at Marc's Halloween party and ejected her.
- Ch 11Dorothea and Jack decided to marry suddenly at Killiecrankie Starport after the diatreme eruption, when she panicked at his leaving.
- Ch 11Diamond Mask wears a diamond mask sealing her lower face, anchored to studs in her facial bones; she is devoutly Catholic and loves making clothing.
- Ch 11Diamond can reshape her own body, lengthening her hair and enhancing her breasts and eyelashes for the wedding night.
- Ch 11Diamond fears that if Jack dies she will have no real life, feeling he loves her more strongly but she needs him more.
- Ch 13Dorothée and Jack sifted Rogi's mind for data on Fury's mental signature, leaving him bedridden for a week.
- Ch 14Dorothea Macdonald was almost killed by a flashover effect during the Caledonian diatreme.
- Ch 16Diamond will perform Severin's calmative redaction downstairs.
- Ch 17Dorothée put the El8 helmet on Rogi so he could witness and monitor the procedure.
- Ch 18Dorothea is Dirigent of Caledonia, wears a mask of canary diamonds, uses a pseudovoice, and usually takes only liquefied nutrition.
- Ch 23Dorothée says she was briefly bewitched by Marc's TV image as a guardian angel, then compared him to Abaddon, the Angel of the Abyss.
- Ch 23Dorothée wears a sparkling diamond mask and performed the ream on Rogi, with Jack's help.
- Ch 25Dirigent of Caledonia and a staunch Milieu supporter; she moderated the Tri-D debate between loyalists and Rebels.
- Ch 25She wears a diamond mask attached to studs in her skull; beneath it is an illusory face. The Lylmik call her Illusio.
- Ch 25She strengthened her illusion so anyone seeing through it will see a face they find beautiful; her real face is hers alone.
- Ch 25She and Jack have experienced something new, incomplete and impermanent, distinct from children's coadunation; she says two adults may have experienced it.
- Ch 25Dirigent of Caledonia, she blames herself for Rebel strength and plans a new pro-Unity education campaign using coadunating children.
- Ch 33Dorothea is the Dirigent of Caledonia, wears a diamond half-mask, and is a loyalist paramount; she disapproves of her father's Rebel complicity.
- Ch 33She urges her father to make a true choice with his own heart and not let Marc Remillard choose for him.
- Ch 34Dorothea is a disembodied brain-and-masked-body partner of Jack, wearing a diamond mask and flying suit; she is Dirigent of Caledonia.
Connections
- partner ofJackmetapsychic union
- family ofKensister and older brother
- family ofViola Strachanmother
- family ofGrannygrandmother
- family ofDaddyfather
- family ofKyle Macdonaldgrandfather
- friend ofRogi Remillard
- related toLylmiktutors
- enemy ofDenis
- related toEwen Cameronsecretly aids and protects hermental guardian
- friend ofSorcha MacAlpin
- inGlen Tuath Farm
- member ofPreceptorial Institute
- related toRogi Remillardniece-figure who coerces him into helping
- family ofRogi Remillardshe calls him Uncle Rogi
- ally ofMalama Johnsonteaches her huna
- enemy ofMadeleine
- enemy ofParnell
- family ofRobert Strachanniece
- enemy ofHydra
- ally ofGraeme HamiltonDeputy to Dirigent
- enemy ofCalum Sorley
- enemy ofCecilia Ashe
- ally ofJackto pair in dual metaconcert
- leadsCaledoniaFirst Deputy Dirigent
- has memberNiall Abercrombieexecutive assistant
- related toOrazio Morrisondeputy to the Dirigent
- family ofEllen Gunnfoster sister
- family ofJackhusband and wife
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 3Plan for the Memoirs
Unifex directs Rogi to resume his Memoirs with Jack's early life and disincarnation, Dorothea's role, and the Metapsychic Rebellion, skipping most of the Proctorship years.
- Book 3 · Ch 1Night in Keaku Cave
Rogi eats supper, sleeps in the cave, smells Dorothée's perfume Bal à Versailles, and dreams of a woman from Mount Washington.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Ferry crossing to Islay
Family travels by old ferry from Kennacraig toward Islay. Seasick Dee, coached by Ken, opens her self-redaction power in secret and cures herself.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Dee picks Islay
Hydra telepathically implants an image of Islay in Dee and compels Masha; Dee's blind stylus point lands on Islay, dismaying Viola and Masha, who agree to go anyway.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Dee meets the MacKendals on the ferry
En route to Islay, Dee meets John Quentin and Magdala MacKendal, who probe her mind-screen; Magdala tells her the Kilnave Fiend legend.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Dee wakes as ferry docks
Dee wakes from a vivid dream of Magdala's tale, finds her book-plaque matching the dream, and follows Ken off the ferry at Port Askaig.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Birth of Dorothea
Dorothea was born in 2057 on Caledonia, latent but healthy and with extraordinary potential; she needed to be taken to Earth for proper evaluation and treatment.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Viola leaves Ian
After Ian, swayed by his father Kyle, refuses to sell Glen Tuath, Viola decides she no longer loves him, announces a divorce and returns to Earth with Kenneth and Dorothea.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Mind-probing at the Bowmore stillroom
Dee feels a powerful exotic mind-prober in the distillery stillroom, sees the three Gi, repels the probe, and Ken suspects Evaluator Lek is a disguised Krondaku.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Visit to Grandad's birthplace
Dee and Ken see Kyle Macdonald's birthplace cottage, talk about their father and grandfather on Caledonia, and Ken promises to take Dee there someday.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Probing resumes at Tràigh Nòstaig
During the picnic, the mind-prober returns gently; Dee resists it and hides it from her mother, using her lack of farsight as an excuse.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Masha attacked at Tòn Mhór
While Dee dreams, Masha is mentally assaulted and clutches Ken in agony. Dee flees for help and is halted by a Galactic Magistratum official.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Lek rescues Ken and Masha
Lek follows Dee up the headland, forces Masha to release Ken, heals the children and calms Masha, who had been deluded into attacking them after her family were killed.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Lek tells the children of the deaths
Lek tells Dee and Ken their mother, uncle and aunt have died; Dee decides privately they will go to their father on Caledonia.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Dorothée refuses mind-probe
Dorothée refuses a drug-assisted memory probe; Paul seeks permission from her father Ian, who forbids it and agrees to take Dorothée and Kenneth to Caledonia.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Dee's telepathy awakens
On the night after the killings on Islay, Dee wondered if her mother loved her, and began hearing thoughts of Gran and hotel guests. She learned from an article that farsensing marks operancy and decided to hide it.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Dee fakes the minidose
Dee pretends to inject herself with the minidoser and keeps her mind-screen up during the first hyperspace jump. Gran suspects, confronts her, and tries to coerce answers, but Dee reveals only her self-redacting power.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Funeral in Edinburgh
After police questioning, the family attended the Requiem Mass and burial of the ashes of Mummie, Uncle Robbie and Aunt Rowan. Ken gave Dee an acorn.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Ewen Cameron meets Dee
Ewen pulls Dee from the hyperspace viewport, tricks her into answering farspeech, warns her of the danger from Gran, implants a protective mental 'angel', then erases her memory of him.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Arrival at Caledonia
The ship exits hyperspace, descends through storms and airplant sparks, and splashes down near Wester Killiecrankie Starport; Gran hurries Dee off to decontamination.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival on Caledonia
Dee, Ken and Masha land at the starport in a storm; Dee is overwhelmed by crowd telepathy, hears the angel, and learns Ian cannot meet them because of the airplant harvest.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Kyle collects the family
Next morning Kyle greets the children, is stunned by rejuvenated Masha, warns the children about farm life, and flies them across Clyde toward Glen Tuath.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Gaelic quarrel in the egg
Kyle and Masha argue in Gaelic over his drinking and seditious plotting against the Milieu; Dee translates and learns of Ian's alleged involvement and Masha's intent to stay.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Dee and the angel
Dee, distressed that her father doesn't want her, begs the angel for help; he advises hiding her powers, then makes her sleep and forget.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Lunch at Portknockie and gifts
The family eats at a seafood restaurant; Kyle slips away and returns with gifts for all three, including a loaded necklet for Masha.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Approach to Glen Tuath
Flying past Stormking's erupting volcano, they near Ian's farm and Janet Finlay directs Kyle to use auto landing.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Arrival at Glen Tuath Farm
The Porsche egg descends through airplant fog and lands at the farm. Janet Finlay greets Masha and the children coolly and tells Dee she must wait until supper to see her father.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Dee meets her father
Kyle helps Dee run to the harvesters. Dee senses Ian's exhaustion and deep sorrow, he descends from his flitter, and she looks into his emotions, wishing to heal him.
- Book 3 · Ch 10Dee heals her father's pain
Dee secretly uses her new redaction on Ian Macdonald, easing his suffering. He then lifts and embraces her, kisses her forehead, and tells her it is time to go home.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Rogi dissuades Jack from visiting Dorothea
In 2067 at his bookshop, Rogi persuades Jack not to go to Caledonia to confront Dorothea. They discuss the Hydra threat and Jack agrees to consult the Lylmik.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Fury spies on Rogi and Jack
Fury overhears their discussion and decides Dorothea may become a new creature to tempt rather than be eliminated, planning to wait.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee's first harvest day
On her eleventh birthday Dee suits up, endures Gavin's taunts, and joins the team piloting The Big Cheese; Ian assigns her a block and pronounces her competent.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee coerces the fairies
Dee mentally orders fairy-critters out of her way and they all flee. Her angel reveals her coercive metafaculty has broken out, to her dismay.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Torachan attack on GT-10
Torachan hidden in Ken's cargo shred his storage cells and gas envelope. His flitter spins and sinks, the pylon bolts fail, and the backup frees the fuselage, but the parafoil fouls.
- Book 3 · Ch 15Dee rescues Ken with psychokinesis
Prompted by the angel, Dee halts time, untangles the parafoil, and lands Ken softly on a grassy islet. Her father sees everything, and the flight recorder logged it, so she cannot hide her powers.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Fury's false dream visit
Fury impersonates Dee's dead mother in a dream, praises her potential, disparages Jack and her farm companions, and urges secrecy. Dee later realizes the deception.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Dee agrees to play along with Fury
Her angel explains Fury and Hydra and suggests letting Fury keep contacting her to learn its plans. Dee secretly agrees, privately plotting something the angel cannot read.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Dee's last farm chores
After a quiet breakfast, Dee trucks feed to the livestock and says goodbye to Cutach and Pigean before leaving for Earth.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Farewell chores and the loch
On her last day, Dee feeds and heals the animals, visits Loch Tuath, and finds a teuthis egg-case blocking the boatshed, fighting tears.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Tutor reveals Dee's quotient
Tutor MacDuffie says goodbye and reveals Dee's metapsychic quotient is Caledonia's highest, and that her operancy is widely known.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Ian's request
Ian asks Dee to find out why Viola was killed, then recoils when Dee mentally compels him to wait. She promises to investigate.
- Book 3 · Ch 17Departure for Earth
After goodbyes with Janet and Ian, Dee, Ken, Masha and Kyle leave in the egg flyer for Clyde and Earth.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi meets Dorothée
In March 2069 twelve-year-old Dorothée visits Rogi's bookshop to buy a birthday gift for her brother, befriends Marcel, and begins a long friendship with Rogi.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi confronts Dorothée
During a birdwatching outing by the Connecticut River, Rogi accuses Dorothée, who admits she probed him and other Remillards for a private research project.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Dorothée confides her secret
Dorothée tells Rogi about Fury and Hydra, her mother's death, Fury's dreams, and her Remillard suspect probabilities, after Rogi was hurt by her probing.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Plan to infiltrate Okanagon
Dorothée explains the clue from Gran Masha about a suspicious aide to Castellane, and pressures Rogi into accompanying her to Okanagon in early November to probe him.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Dorothée reveals her plan to probe a Hydra suspect
Dorothée explains she can identify Hydra by its true metapsychic signature and intends to probe a suspect at Okanagon, with illegal evidence forcing her to use herself as bait. Rogi, alarmed, resolves to stop her.
- Book 3 · Ch 18Rogi enlists Ti-Jean and lures Dorothée to the masquerade
From Kauai, Rogi calls Ti-Jean, who proposes Marc's Halloween party on Orcas Island. Rogi persuades Dorothée to attend, introduced as his girlfriend Surya, before they leave for Okanagon.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Fury instructs Hydra
Fury orders the paired minds to attend Marc's party and watch the Girl for contact with the Great Enemy; they urge killing her.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Diamond Mask probes Jack
Diamond Mask lures the disguised Jack to the library and covertly probes his mind, learning about his nature, suspicions of Fury, and his interest in Dorothea, then erases his memory of it.
- Book 3 · Ch 19Dorothea dances with Marc
Dorothea dances with Marc, who probes her mind and fails; he asks for an alliance against their common enemy and explains the Satsuma metaconcert accident.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Final dream with Fury
Fury, posing as Dee's mother, offers the Choice. Dee asks where the Cosmic Mind lives now, Fury's mask drops, and it threatens to kill her slowly, ending the dreams.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Dee decides to hunt Hydra alone
Dee takes a walk to Spouting Horn, resolves to lure Hydra into a trap before her birthday, and decides to confide in neither Jack, Marc nor the Magistratum.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Rescue attempt at Spouting Horn
Dee tries to save the unconscious boy Mikey, but falls, is struck on the head and swept into the lava tube blowhole, dazed and cut. She swims toward the boy.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Escape from the Spouting Horn
Drowning in the lava tube, Dee follows Angel's hint, freezes water to plug the blowhole and superheats the chamber, blasting herself and the child out to sea before passing out; Malama sends windsurfers to rescue her.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Dee recovers and learns Mikey vanished
Dee wakes healed in Malama's house and learns no child was found, realising the 'Mikey' was part of an ambush.
- Book 3 · Ch 20The conspirators regroup under Fury
Fury consoles the failed attackers, promises Celine's arrival in thirty-three days and urges a stronger assault before Dee goes to Orb; Parni and Maddy voice doubts about Fury.
- Book 3 · Ch 21Supervisors discuss Illusio and Jack
After Unifex leaves, the remaining four vote to make Illusio Deputy Dirigent of Caledonia, decide Jack must not help her against Hydra, and turn to prayer.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Dee relives the murders in the cave
At low tide Dee enters the sea-cave and relives her mother's, uncle's and aunt's murders with full empathy, confronts the Hydra in vision, and finds her inhibitions unchanged as the tide returns.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Dee's realisation at the sea-cave rim
While eating lunch above Falcon Cave, Dee confronts her hypocrisy and understands she intends to kill Hydra vengefully, not just capture it, shattering something within her.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Bone chamber discovered
Exploring Falcon Cave, Dee climbs to a hidden chamber filled with thirty-three human skulls and bones, then finds three Hydra units waiting at the exit.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Fight in the caves
Chased by the Hydra units, Dee is burned but kills Celine's monster form with stones and escapes via a hurricane blast of cave-wind, landing in a bog.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Jack finds Celine's body
Jack, who secretly watched, confirms Celine is dead and plans to later help heal Dee, while Madeleine and Parnell vanish.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Aftermath on Islay
Dorothée is healed with Jack's help; Magistratum agents take over, the attacker is identified as Celine Remillard and her ashes are scattered, with the case sealed.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Dorothée becomes Deputy Dirigent
At sixteen she becomes a Magnate and is appointed First Deputy Dirigent of Caledonia under Graeme Hamilton, thwarting the Rebels' plan.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Wedding of Kenneth and Luc
In 2076, Kenneth Macdonald and Luc Remillard marry in Hanover; Dorothée and Rogi renew their friendship at the reception.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Dorothée asks the Remillards for help
At a wedding, Dorothée explains Caledonia's seismic threat and hopes Marc and Jack will test CEREM equipment there. Rogi's joke about her three grandmasters embarrasses her, and she leaves.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Magma reservoir confirmed
After Hamilton's death and Dorothée's appointment as Dirigent, surveyors confirm the Clyde reservoir will erupt within two to three years; Dorothée calls Rogi, who calls Jack.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Arrival at Windlestrow Muir
Scurra II lands in a downpour at the geophysical camp; Dorothea and Calum Sorley meet Jack and Rogi, and Jack and Dorothea quarrel over his involvement.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Catastrophe simulation
MacNabb shows a Tri-D model of the rising volatile magma reservoir and its eruption; he tells Jack conventional CE modification has no chance.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Supper council
The operators discuss Neelya's diversion plan and its risks; Jack says yes to designing a new approach using two metaconcerts to separate volatiles and delay eruption.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Dual metaconcert plan agreed
Jon proposes pairing himself and the Dirigent in a double metaconcert to contain Caledonia's magma; the group agrees, and the driller team goes to collect magma data before training.
- Book 3 · Ch 24Diamond and Carbuncle exchanged
On a walk at Windlestrow Muir, Dorothée finds a diamond; she and Rogi swap it for the Great Carbuncle as luck charms. The small driller surfaces with the magma analysis and she runs back to train.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Jack reveals his bodiless form
Aboard D-4, Jack strips and dissolves his created body into a brain in a fishbowl; Dorothea reacts with pity, then curiosity.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Descent and confidences
During the hours-long descent Jack and Dorothea share life stories, and her hostility toward him gives way to sympathy.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Degassing begins and the queue ruptures
Jack and Dorothea form a lid over the magma reservoir while the other eight separate volatiles. Hours in, the rising queue breaks through the sheath and the alarm sounds.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Dysergism and flashover
Diamond's unexpected surge of creativity overwhelms the metaconcert, the reservoir lid collapses and flashover badly injures her. Jack rebuilds the metaconcert and a new, thicker lid holds.
- Book 3 · Ch 25Jack redacts Diamond and confesses love
On the way to the surface, Jack heals Diamond partially, shelters her from horror, and tells her he loves her. She wonders how she sees him without any disguise.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Diatreme eruption
With Marc replacing Dorothea in Jack's metaconcert, the gas separation succeeded. The diatreme erupted at Loch Windlestrow, sparing Caledonia and ejecting ice and diamonds. The drillers returned safely.
- Book 3 · Ch 26Dorothea's aftermath and engagement
Dorothea, injured, toured the quake-damaged regions in a diamond-decorated mask and flying suit, winning deep respect. She and Jack announced their wedding plans.
- Book 4 · Ch 5Plan to cure Denis agreed
Anne and Rogi plan a secret CE-enhanced coercive-redactive metaconcert to cure Denis and destroy Fury, with Jack building equipment and Dorothée probing Rogi's memories; the plan is kept from the rest of the family.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Clemency hearing of Geordie Doig
Dorothea examines Geordie Doig's mind, finds he would reoffend, denies commutation and offers three sentencing options; he chooses permanent incarceration on Caithness after lashing out.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Suspicious import quota
Dorothea reviews an import quota request by Muckle Skerry Bionics for mind-interface units and orders an investigation into possible illegal CE equipment on Beinn Bhiorach, fearing Rebel arming.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Jack reports Anne's crash
Jack telepathically tells Dorothea that his Aunt Anne's starship crashed on Okanagon, probably sabotage, during a visit to investigate Rebel influence in the Twelfth Fleet.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Dorothea reveals her face to Ian
At the Intendant Assembly dining room, Dorothea persuades her sulking father to give her away at her wedding to Jack, showing him her old face and her scarred true face.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Wedding of Jack and Dorothée
Jack and Dorothée marry in a nuptial mass. Rogatien spots Hydra among the waiters, but Marc cannot see him and blocks Rogatien's farspeech. After the kiss, Dorothée's diamond mask vanishes briefly.
- Book 4 · Ch 10Rogi reveals Fury's identity
Rogi locks Jack and Dorothée in the Roosevelt Parlor after the wedding and opens his mind so they can read what he knows of Fury's identity.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Honeymoon arrival on Kauai
Jack and Dorothea see the green flash, discuss Rogi's revelations and plans to heal Denis, and arrive at Jack's fortified Lawai Kai home.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Honeymoon night on Pu'u Kiloia
After a Hawaiian-style second wedding exchange of leis, Jack carries Diamond to a grass shack among night-blooming cereus. They consummate their marriage; Jack finds his desire real and Diamond removes her mask for him.
- Book 4 · Ch 11Exchange of leis and vows
Jack presents Diamond with pikake and orchid leis and says he weds her again in the old island way; she replies in kind and they recite verses from the Song of Songs.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Rogi's mind is reamed for the exorcism
Jack and Dorothée secretly visit Hanover and redact Rogi's memories for data on Fury, then explain the plan to heal Denis on Christmas at Marie's farm.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Rogatien's depression and dread
After recovering over the summer, Rogatien grows depressed in autumn 2078, rejecting that Denis is Fury yet knowing the metaconcert redaction of Denis will proceed at Christmas with his own participation.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Dummy-unit plan agreed
Jack proposes using Severin as a sedated dummy participant, as done on the Siberian planet. Paul agrees to proceed, and prepares to cue the others and bring Denis downstairs.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Integration of Denis and Fury
Rogi lures Denis to the cellar, where eight minds forge a metaconcert, subdue him, and force the fusion of Denis and Fury, leaving an unnamed merged personality that then vanishes.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Dorothea and Davy ride a gondola
Dorothea and Davy MacGregor discuss Fury, Denis, the Remillards and Marc; Davy voices resentment of the Dynasty.
- Book 4 · Ch 18Anniversary dinner
Paolo gives Dorothea a free takeout meal, and she and Jack share a candlelit anniversary dinner with champagne and roses.
- Book 4 · Ch 23Rogi's ream and argument
Dorothée reams Rogi's memory of seeing Denis's spectre; the result is inconclusive. Rogi argues with Jack and Dorothée over Marc, whom they fear is preparing for war.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Tri-D debate and tense green room
After the televised debate, loyalists and Rebels spar over the loyalty oath, arms buildup and sequestration; Paul vows to prove the Rebels are stockpiling weapons.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Dorothea reveals her face and coadunating children
At the Couthy 'Shroom, Dorothea removes her mask; the group learns children are coadunating and that Jack and Dorothea have had an unprecedented experience, to be kept secret.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Jack and Dorothea analyze the attack
They conclude that Fury attacked Paul, identify three suspects, and deduce that Denis's resurgence saved Paul. Dorothea plans a pro-Unity campaign.
- Book 4 · Ch 33Ian's secret appeal
Ian asks Dorothea and Jack, on behalf of a Rebel faction, whether war can be averted; they reveal the loyalist strategy and that they will confront Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Departure for Okanagon
Jack and Dorothea return the Carbuncle to Rogi, collect Paul after verifying his neural recovery, and set out to confront Marc.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Destruction of Okanagon
As a bubble of coadunate energy expands from the Carbuncle, Marc fires antimatter bombs; they pass through and strike Okanagon, killing two billion people.
- Book 4 · Ch 34Confrontation ends
Humanity, including many Rebels, joins the Song of Unity. Marc's blast destroys Scurra and Paul, but the Mind of Humanity crystallizes in the Carbuncle.