Dr. Sheehy
Names: Dr. SheehyBridgetB. SheehyMrs. BrodeurBridgeBridget BrodeurOriginal Bridget
First appears in Book 2: For We Are Many, chapter 2 (2. Colony Site)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: For We Are Many
- Ch 25Dr. Sheehy is a red-haired, freckled colony biologist with a flair for drama; Howard finds himself attracted to her.
- Ch 29Dr. Bridget Sheehy is perfecting a device that detects parasite infection by body odor, and named the parasite the Cupid Bug.
- Ch 31Dr. Bridget Sheehy has become Howard's close friend; she tests his home-made whiskey and offers to become his partner in making it.
- Ch 35Bridget sees the liquor business as a real source of extra income and jokes about becoming a liquor baroness.
- Ch 42Bridget suffers recurring backaches and deflects Stéphane's advice to see a doctor.
- Ch 42Bridget asks curious questions about replicant immortality but denies wanting to become one.
- Ch 45Howard has intercepted a worrying medical scan of Bridget Sheehy, which he keeps re-examining.
- Ch 48Bridget undergoes surgery to remove a tumor that had spread more than expected; doctors say the outlook is positive.
- Ch 51Bridget marries Stéphane, becoming Mrs. Brodeur.
- Ch 51Bridget tells Howard he is human where it matters, and wishes she had met him when he was alive.
- Ch 58Bridget and her husband had a son and named him Howard.
- Ch 69Bridget's children are Rosie, Lianne and Howie.
- Ch 70Bridget's daughters were horrified at the idea of her being replicated, and even Howie was unsure.
- Ch 75Bridget is physically about 57, has let her hair go grey, and Howard couldn't care less.
Book 3: All These Worlds
- Ch 4Bridget is a liquor baroness in her late fifties biologically, who loved and has fully mourned Stéphane.
- Ch 4Bridget insists her relationships are her own business and she will keep seeing Howard regardless of her family's views.
- Ch 9Bridget has been quietly shielding Howard from her children's lectures and local gossip about their relationship.
- Ch 9Bridget tells Howard she loves him, partly because he shares her lowbrow humour, unlike Stéphane.
- Ch 14Bridget wants people, including specific people, to see Howard as ordinary rather than a novelty.
- Ch 20Bridget, a biologist, is thrilled by the Odin life but again refuses replication, despite Howard showing her a young avatar of herself.
- Ch 23Bridget Brodeur dies suddenly after collapsing, and her body is placed in stasis per her instructions.
- Ch 23Months before her death, Bridget changed her will to give Howard permission to replicate her and set up a defense fund.
- Ch 37Bridget Brodeur's last will is on file and uncontested; her wealth funded the long legal fight over her replication.
- Ch 41Bridget appears in VR as her twenty-eight-year-old self, with red hair, dimples and a lab coat.
- Ch 41Original Bridget died of heart failure after changing her will to allow her replication.
- Ch 41Bridget says the chance to study Odin's lifeforms is what changed her mind about replication.
- Ch 43Bridget and Howard study Odin's wildlife from manta android bodies, an idea she proposed after hearing of Bob's and Marcus' androids.
- Ch 43Bridget makes her first public appearance at a Bob moot, where almost a hundred Bobs stop and stare.
- Ch 43Bridget dislikes the idea of replicating herself and intends to catalog every species on every planet in the human sphere.
- Ch 45Bridget agrees to join Howard's Odin city project, with android bodies letting them live there as beta testers.
- Ch 55Bridget proposed fitting Rivendell with kitchens and infrastructure as though living people would occupy it, as a proof of concept.
- Ch 58Bridget keeps her old apartment in Landing on Vulcan as a base for their androids.
- Ch 61Bridget is a grandmother via Howie and his wife, and catalogs Quilt's ever-evolving native species.
- Ch 61Bridget proposes that she and Howard adopt orphaned children, arguing they are citizens who pay taxes.
Book 4: Heaven’s River
- Ch 3Bridget has not cloned herself, partly to avoid being seen as the default wife of the Bobiverse.
- Ch 6Bridget, an expert in biological sciences, helped improve androids and virt realism; she and Howard live in real and have adopted many children.
- Ch 12Bridget, a biologist married to Howard, asks to join the Quinlan expedition; Bob had hoped she would.
- Ch 12Bridget decides not to clone, feeling a copy would have half a soul and be cut off from Howard and their children.
- Ch 13Bridget studies Quilt species, which spawn new species every few generations; she is torn about leaving for Bob's expedition.
- Ch 13After swimming as a dolphin manny, Bridget concludes being aquatic will not be a problem in Quinlan mannies.
- Ch 15Bridget autopsies a Quinlan corpse in an Emergency Management office and finds remains of a large viral load.
- Ch 17Bridget, the expedition's biologist, insists the team speak Quinlan and behave like Quinlans to avoid standing out.
- Ch 17Bridget punches a brawling Quinlan in the snout when he threatens her, ending the fight.
- Ch 22Bridget fights without martial-arts training, relying on enthusiasm, yet defeats her attackers.
- Ch 25Bridget fears that without selection pressure, Quinlans in the idyllic habitat could lose knowledge, culture and eventually intelligence.
- Ch 27Bridget presents herself as a 'seeker' who wants to go home eventually, and heads for the Three Lagoons library.
- Ch 27Hours after leaving for the library, Bridget stops answering comms, and Bill and Garfield go silent too.
- Ch 29Bridget and Bob agree the Administrator would likely kill alien spies, ruling out going public.
- Ch 31Bridget wonders whether moving her single backup back and forth would preserve continuity, the 'closest continuer' idea, but drops the topic when it turns to souls.
- Ch 49Bridget is the reigning expert on Jovian-class life throughout human space.
- Ch 49Bridget plans to outwait the political backlash, keep a low profile and pause new adoptions; their current children are all adults.
- Ch 49Bridget proposes a new expedition to one of several candidate planets with interesting ecosystems, rather than waiting on Herschel and Neil's voyage.
- Ch 53Bridget warns that general mistrust of replicants remains a problem even if MacIntosh is recalled.
- Ch 53Bridget plans to study a newly found system with a very weird ecosystem featuring flying, monkey-like creatures.
- Ch 56Bridget advises wilderness over river because Quinlans dislike being far from water and infrared searching would be ineffective.
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 23Bridget, Howard's wife and an exobiologist, is preparing a full study of an intelligent species Mario found on Jabberwocky.
- Ch 26Bridget is building android dragon bodies to observe the dragons on Jabberwocky.
- Ch 26Bridget persuades Howard to secretly fund research into greatly extended human life, despite FAITH's opposition.
- Ch 33Bridget is proud of her fire-red hair, and all her mannies are redheads by default.
- Ch 33Bridget and Howard have been funding research into delaying the terminal phase of human senescence.
- Ch 36Bridget and Howard were previously pursued by what may have been a dragon patrol.
- Ch 36Bridget refuses to postpone their dragon visits but suggests building spare drannies in case they get shot down.
- Ch 40Bridget calls herself an honorary Bob and wants to learn about the warlord causing upheaval among the dragons.
- Ch 40Bridget claims they come from Nirvana, a real college-town floater, to explain their presence.
- Ch 42Bridget sees Alexander as a tin-pot dictator for whom control itself is the goal.
- Ch 42Bridget rejects killing Alexander, believing a lieutenant or child would simply take over.
- Ch 42Bridget examines a floater tendril and finds something she needs to think about.
- Ch 44Bridget refuses to help defend the Hunter because she does not want to kill anyone.
- Ch 47Bridget is recruited by force to analyse records and tells Alexander that floaters spread fish eggs between lakes.
- Ch 47Bridget's research shows fish numbers falling year after year and the shortage is cyclical.
- Ch 50Bridget becomes an assistant in Alexander's Research Division, the scribes' group.
- Ch 50Bridget decides they should support Alexander and offers him maps and knowledge of Lemuria.
- Ch 50Bridget proposes trawling nets behind floaters to catch ocean fish, with Howard designing the gear.
- Ch 55Bridget warns that dragons burn five thousand calories daily and will fight over food long before starving.
- Ch 57Bridget notes Alexander has been paying her more attention, and vows to confront him over Howard's attack.
- Ch 59Bridget's dranny repair systems needed twenty-four hours to regrow her cut primaries.
- Ch 62Bridget is writing up the dragon adventure as a report for the UFS Exobiology Society and will monitor the dragons for centuries.
Connections
- related toHowardattracted to
- friend ofHoward
- related toVulcan parasitenamed it
- partner ofHowardunspoken feelings
- ally ofHowardbusiness partners in liquor
- leadsEnniscorthy Distillery Company
- partner ofStéphane Brodeurpartners
- member ofBrodeurs
- family ofRosiedaughter
- family ofLiannedaughter
- family ofHowieson
- friend ofKumar
- friend ofArnie
- createdRivendell
- related toStéphane BrodeurHoward gave his Enniscorthy interest to both
- friend ofBob
- createdDrannies
- member ofResearch Division
- ally ofAlexander
- ally ofMario
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 25Rabbits proposed for the vine
Dr. Sheehy tells Howard that rabbits eat Vulcan's invasive vine and could be released to control it; she also reveals colonists are now eating bronto.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Howard's whiskey passes testing
Bridget confirms Howard's force-aged whiskey is safe to drink, offers to partner with him, and they discuss rabbits and parasite-hunting drones.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Howard introduces Bridget and Stéphane
Howard brings Bridget and Stéphane together for beers to set up unofficial channels that bypass the colony committee.
- Book 2 · Ch 35Whiskey approved for sale
Colonel Butterworth tastes Howard and Bridget's Irish whiskey and declares it saleable, launching their liquor business.
- Book 2 · Ch 35Business dinner or date
Over dinner at The Shaded Green, Howard and Bridget plan around Cranston's liquor ban, and Howard admits the evening is also a date.
- Book 2 · Ch 42Howard explains his lineage
As the distillery thrives, Bridget asks Howard about his age; he traces his memories through Original Bob, Bob-1, Riker and Charles, and they discuss immortality.
- Book 2 · Ch 45Howard asks about replication
Howard asks Riker for human-to-replicant know-how, hiding his concern over Bridget's medical scan; Riker agrees, keen to bypass Cranston.
- Book 2 · Ch 48Bridget's cancer surgery
Bridget has a tumor removed; a frantic Howard waits for news, then learns she will recover.
- Book 2 · Ch 48Howard sees Bridget and Stéphane together
At Bridget's bedside, Howard realizes she and Stéphane are a couple and retreats, confronting his own feelings and his non-human status.
- Book 2 · Ch 51Bridget and Stéphane's wedding
Bridget marries Stéphane; heartbroken, Howard gives them his share of the distillery as a wedding gift.
- Book 2 · Ch 51Howard leaves Vulcan
Howard hands Vulcan over to Dexter, says a painful goodbye to Bridget and Stéphane, and sets out to explore.
- Book 2 · Ch 58News of the Brodeurs' son
Dexter's email tells Howard of colony progress, Cranston's fall in New Jerusalem, and that the Brodeurs have named their new son Howard.
- Book 2 · Ch 67Manny completed
Dexter finishes building the android Manny at Vulcan; Bridget tells Howard Stéphane has only weeks left and is mostly not lucid.
- Book 2 · Ch 69Stéphane's memorial
Howard attends Stéphane's memorial on Vulcan in the android Manny, hugs Bridget, and meets her children, who know him from Stéphane's stories.
- Book 2 · Ch 70Bridget declines replication
Howard tries to persuade Bridget to be replicated after death; she declines for now, and they plan a dinner date once Manny is upgraded.
- Book 2 · Ch 75Howard and Bridget reunite
Howard, in the upgraded Manny, walks up to Bridget's porch and takes her hands for their long-awaited meeting.
- Book 3 · Ch 2Howard tells Bridget the Bobs lost
A distraught Howard tells Bridget the Bobs have lost against the Others at the Pav home world, dooming a billion Pav; a moot will meet to decide what to do.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Mall date and mockery
On a lunch date at Landing's mall, a teenager mocks Howard and Bridget's apparent age difference; Bridget tells Howard her family has no vote in her relationships.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Butterworth's suicide
After a movie date, Howard and Bridget learn from the coroner that George Butterworth has died by neurotoxin; his note to Howard explains his incurable dementia and his refusal to be replicated.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Howard grieves with Bridget
Howard confides to Bridget that immortality means endless losses, and fears losing her one day; she asks him to stay with her.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Howard discovers public backlash
Bridget admits her children lecture her about Howard, and Howard finds online opinion split, with many objecting to a replicant dating a human.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Dinner with Bridget's friends
Howard wins over Bridget's old friends with humour at a dinner, but a tipsy Kumar asks if the Bobs plan to take over the world, leaving Howard uneasy.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Bridget visits Howard's VR
Howard brings Bridget into his VR to study the Odin life, giving her a youthful avatar; she calls it a dirty trick and reaffirms she doesn't want replication.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Bridget dies
Bridget collapses and dies; per her changed will she is placed in stasis and Howard is given permission to replicate her.
- Book 3 · Ch 37Bill scans Bridget
Suspecting sabotage, Howard asks for help; Bill sends a drone to scan Bridget during court, before the saboteur's device shuts her stasis pod down.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Bridget is replicated
After hesitating, Howard activates Bridget's replicant in his VR; they reunite and he begins teaching her replicant life.
- Book 3 · Ch 41Bridget contacts her children
Replicant Bridget phones her children; Howie is distant and Rosie remains unforgiving, leaving Bridget in tears.
- Book 3 · Ch 43Manta flights on Odin
Howard and Bridget fly manta androids among a flock of blimps on Odin, recording their behaviour.
- Book 3 · Ch 43Bridget's moot debut
Bridget attends her first moot with Howard, meets Henry Roberts, and hears Bill report that the Others' harvesting of Delta Pavonis continues unchecked.
- Book 3 · Ch 45Odin city project
Howard shows Bridget his design for a floating city in Odin's atmosphere, a possible refuge from the Others; she agrees to help build it.
- Book 3 · Ch 55Rivendell deployed
Mover plates lower Rivendell into Odin's clouds where it floats stably; Howard and Bridget explore it in androids until a blimp tries to mate with the dome.
- Book 3 · Ch 58Howie's wedding
Bridget and Howard attend Howie's wedding to Angelina in androids; Howie embraces his mother, and Bridget reconnects with Lianne.
- Book 3 · Ch 58Rosie cuts off the family
Rosie boycotts the wedding, cuts off her brother and sister, and announces she is emigrating to Romulus.
- Book 3 · Ch 61Bridget proposes adoption
In their Tantor apartment, Bridget asks Howard to consider adopting orphaned colony children; Howard, stunned, realizes he will agree.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Bridget joins the expedition
Bridget asks to join the Quinlan expedition, later deciding to go in person rather than clone herself.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Natives named Quinlans
The Skippies' report reveals the natives call themselves Quinlans and their world Heaven's River, though history remains obscure.
- Book 4 · Ch 12Infiltration strategy set
The team agrees to tunnel through the outer shell, send one small team inside, and spread spy drones upstream and downstream to find leads on Bender.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Swimming with Poseidon dolphins
Howard and Bridget borrow dolphin mannies from Marcus and join a native pod at Moody Port to learn about aquatic mannies for the Quinlan expedition.
- Book 4 · Ch 13Leviathan passes
A huge leviathan glides beneath the pod near the mat; everyone keeps still until it passes, and Marcus alerts Perimeter Security.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Council of war
Bob's team agrees to field-test mannies on Quin, ferry the expedition mannies in one at a time, travel as a four-member sabbat, and start digging an entry tunnel.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Field test on Quin
Bob and Bridget land Quinlan mannies in a dead city on Quin, explore its canals and a government building, and Bridget autopsies a corpse.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Viral evidence found
Bridget finds remains of a large viral load in the corpse and sends scans to the Skippies for simulation.
- Book 4 · Ch 15Mannies cleared for production
After a canal swim test, Bill judges the androids good to go pending Garfield's vacuum test; Will will practice on Quin.
- Book 4 · Ch 16Will visits Howard
Will learns from Howard about pams, public manny storage, growing anti-manny protests, and Howard's human/android interface research.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Expedition enters Heaven's River
The four-manny expedition crosses between the shells, rides a mining drone to the inner shell one by one, climbs the stairs of a transit station and emerges into the habitat.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Will plugs the tunnel
Rather than join as a conspicuous five-person sabbat, Will returns his manny to the entry tunnel and plugs the entrance.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Bridget corrects the team's behavior
Bridget points out that Quinlans don't walk long distances upright; the team goes on all fours and takes to the water.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Swim to Garack
The expedition plays tag in the stream, then floats downstream into the village, where a sword-carrying cop warns them as sabbatarians to register or stay at transient hotels.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Bridget ends a brawl
When a brawling Quinlan threatens her, Bridget knocks him down, and the group takes a cramped four-bunk room at a sabbatarian hotel.
- Book 4 · Ch 17Planning the search for Bender
In VR the team agrees to search local written records first; scanning the topopolis for Bender is ruled out as taking far too long.
- Book 4 · Ch 19Bob flees Garack
Accused of trying to rob a cart, Bob evades Officer Friendly and a mob of bystanders with martial arts and escapes downriver; the team leaves town.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Ambush in the alley
Tracking Skeve's would-be killers, the team is ambushed; they drop the pretense of being biological, beat the attackers, and Bob bandages the wounded Skeve.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Second attack
As Skeve asks if they are the Resistance, another group jumps Bob and Bridget and shoots Garfield point-blank.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Skeve rescued by unknowns
The team fights off Skeve's second set of attackers; Garfield survives a gunshot, and Skeve vanishes with rescuers into Barney's Place.
- Book 4 · Ch 22Ambush by the Resistance
After their room is invaded, eight knife-wielding Quinlans, including one from the Resistance group, encircle the team; the team defeats them and leaves Galen by river.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Ambush in Elbow
Led into a trap on the way to the library, the team leaps over armed attackers with superhuman speed and hides on a rooftop, watching via roamers.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Through the segment boundary
The team swims underwater for hours, then floats through a strait in the segment-boundary mountains into a night-time segment and reaches a larger city.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Library research in First Stop
Bridget's library research reveals the Quinlan origin myth, the Administrator's rule-by-scattering, and the Crew; the pub crawls yield nothing.
- Book 4 · Ch 25Riverboat to Three Lagoons
The team rides a hown riverboat down the Gronk and meets Kar's sabbatarian group, whose contentment prompts Bridget's warning about loss of intelligence.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Crossing to the Utopia
The riverboat rides through the rough Gronk connector; the team parts from Kar's group and swims to Three Lagoons.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Bridget goes silent
While Bob eavesdrops at a dockside pub, Bridget goes to the library; when Bob pings her hours later, neither she nor Bill and Garfield answer.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Bob alone in Three Lagoons
Bob hides the mannies, plants surveillance roamers across Three Lagoons, and orders new replicant matrices as Hugh urges local backups.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Library research
Bob reads histories in the Three Lagoons library and learns of Anec's gift, the Quinlans' betrayal, scattering and lost technologies.
- Book 4 · Ch 31Strategy meeting
With the others limited to video monitoring, the team weighs passive surveillance against provoking the hidden groups in Three Lagoons, and votes for Bob to rattle the bushes.
- Book 4 · Ch 32Melee at the library plaza
Rival groups of Quinlans following Bob clash in the library plaza with swords and tranquilizer pistols; Bob is tackled and taken by the sword-wielding group.
- Book 4 · Ch 35Bob reports finding Bender
Bob tells Garfield and Bridget he found Bender, lost contact, and asks for a volunteer to clone to help him on the scene.
- Book 4 · Ch 49Howard and Bridget plan an expedition
Facing human political hostility, Howard and Bridget decide to keep a low profile and leave Trantor on a new expedition to a planet of Bridget's choosing.
- Book 4 · Ch 53MacIntosh recall
Howard learns that anti-replicant Senator MacIntosh is being recalled after post-life constituents feared he would threaten their afterlives.
- Book 4 · Ch 53New exploration candidate
Bridget shows Howard a strange new ecosystem Mario found; she asks Mario to build a station and autofactory there so she can study it.
- Book 4 · Ch 54Expedition debates contacting the Administrator
Bob reports the Quinlans' decline; Hugh pushes to contact the Administrator, Bob insists on rescuing Bender first, and Bill proposes poking until the Administrator responds.
- Book 4 · Ch 56Bob jumps ship with Bender
Expecting a boarding party, the team agrees Bob must leave; he slips over the side with Bender's crate at night and hides ashore to await Hugh.
- Book 4 · Ch 64Hugh reveals the ANEC deal
Hugh tells the Bobs he traded SURGE, SUDDAR and SCUT to ANEC for the secret of true AI, explaining ANEC's prime directive and defending the trade against Bill's objections before leaving for Skippy space.
- Book 5 · Ch 23Huey test goes wrong
At New Landing on Vulcan, Howard and Bridget watch Terry test a huey. After lunch the huey cannot exit and the safe phrase fails, so the techs cut the power.
- Book 5 · Ch 23Romulus bans flying cities
Mark tells Howard and Bridget that FAITH, now with a majority on Romulus, has outlawed flying cities and replication, straining relations with Vulcan.
- Book 5 · Ch 26Holiday on Newholme
Howard and Bridget visit Newholme via Xavier Charles's covert base, see the facial-recognition protests, and cut their outing short after encountering an anti-replicant restaurant.
- Book 5 · Ch 26Decision to pursue life extension
Troubled by rising anti-replicant hatred, Bridget convinces Howard to quietly fund life-extension research alongside the Huey Project.
- Book 5 · Ch 29First dranny test flight
Howard and Bridget transfer into their new dragon mannies on Jabberwocky, test-fly them over volcanic lakes, and enjoy a mating flight.
- Book 5 · Ch 29Chased by dragons
Four dragons with spears chase Howard and Bridget, who outpace them. Bridget resolves to raise the possible patrols with Gandalf.
- Book 5 · Ch 31Successful huey test
At the Hawking Institute, Terry's improved huey works smoothly and even lunches with Howard, Bridget and Mark; the project moves to alpha testing.
- Book 5 · Ch 33Hueys declared ready
At the Institute in New Landing, Terry reveals she is riding a huey and Mark announces the human manny is ready; Howard approves the marketing plan.
- Book 5 · Ch 34Matter pushed through a wormhole
Bill announces to the Ancient Ones that he and Garfield sent ten hydrogen atoms through a stabilized wormhole, the first matter ever transmitted.
- Book 5 · Ch 36Gamers brief Howard and Bridget on dragon culture
Gandalf tells Howard and Bridget the dragon analysis is nearly done and warns that dragon society is in turmoil, with a conqueror annexing floating islands.
- Book 5 · Ch 40Howard and Bridget land on Jabberwocky
Riding drannies, Howard and Bridget glide over Jabberwocky, practise fishing, and land on the floater called the Hunter, where an armed squad questions them.
- Book 5 · Ch 40News of Alexander's army
The squad leader tells them Alexander's army is within fifty miles and his scouts are intercepted daily; the pair take a hotel pod in the village.
- Book 5 · Ch 42Alexander sympathizers thrown overboard
At the Hunter's village, a group promoting peaceful union with Alexander is tossed off the floater; a local tells Howard and Bridget of rumoured floater burnings.
- Book 5 · Ch 42Bridget inspects a floater tendril
Bridget climbs down a floater tendril after it drinks from a lake and finds something that troubles her.
- Book 5 · Ch 44Alexandrians take the Hunter
Watching from high above, Howard and Bridget see an Alexandrian raiding party seize the Hunter's three villages in a brutal ten-minute assault.
- Book 5 · Ch 44The Hunter under occupation
The occupiers let Howard and Bridget return, life resumes calmly, and the Hunter is steered toward the Alexandrian floater cluster.
- Book 5 · Ch 47Bridget conscripted as a scribe
After questioning a guard, Bridget is taken to Alexander's library, impresses the majordomo with fish-egg ecology, and wins an audience with Alexander.
- Book 5 · Ch 47Mysterious canoe and wreckage
Howard spots a canoe of alien hull plates and advanced SCUT wreckage in Alexander's throne room; Mario confirms neither is human or Bob-made.
- Book 5 · Ch 50Alexander reveals the famine cycle
Alexander explains his family's millennia of records show recurring, worsening famines, justifying his plan to move dragons to Lemuria.
- Book 5 · Ch 50Bridget and Howard join Alexander's planning
Bridget offers maps and route advice for crossing to Lemuria and proposes net fishing from floaters, effectively joining Alexander's leadership.
- Book 5 · Ch 53The flotilla sets out north
With eruptions confirming Alexander's warnings, floaters join his flotilla and head north early while Howard's crew builds a fishing winch.
- Book 5 · Ch 53Floaters refuse salt water
Turning out to sea, the floaters recoil from salt water and head back to shore; Alexander plans to heat them, fill them at a lake and cut their tendrils.
- Book 5 · Ch 55The flotilla flees out to sea
Eruptions reach the lake; after a last net test the flotilla leaves, carried two miles offshore by a doming toxic gas plume.
- Book 5 · Ch 55A floater burns in the storm
In a fierce storm, fire breaks out on a floater; Howard, Bridget and soldiers cut it loose and it falls burning into the sea, with dozens of dragons lost.
- Book 5 · Ch 55Secret fish restocking and food crisis
Mario's drones secretly restock floater reservoirs until it is noticed, nearly causing civil war; with food short, Howard proposes flying the dragons ahead.
- Book 5 · Ch 55Alexander adopts the raft plan
Howard proposes a chain of rafts and signal fires so most dragons can fly ahead to the mainland; Alexander approves it.
- Book 5 · Ch 57Howard's dranny is assassinated
A dragon spears Howard's dranny in flight; Mario's drone recovers and repairs the body while Howard and Bridget suspect Alexander.
- Book 5 · Ch 59Alexander grounds Bridget
Alexander surrounds Bridget, tells her Howard is dead, and has her primaries cut so she can't leave until she agrees to join his records team.
- Book 5 · Ch 59Howard rescues Bridget
Howard flies a cargo drone to the flotilla, confronts Alexander, drops the drone on his soldiers, and escapes with Bridget aboard it.
- Book 5 · Ch 62Aftermath of the dragon migration
Back at Trantor, Bridget tells Howard the migrated dragons are doing well while the old continent faces ecosystem collapse.