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The party's loyal little agent, ousted after a homeworld tragedy and sent to ominous 'reeducation' — replaced by the Bloom censor Loita.
Zev's fear comes true. In the epilogue the party learns from her replacement Loita that Zev has been sent to a 'reeducation retreat' following the personal, homeworld tragedy she'd hinted at — Loita's chilling gloss: 'Such things never take long, especially on the weak-minded.' When (and if) she returns, she'll be demoted to mere social-media manager while Loita runs primary PR. Princess Donut is heartbroken and defiant, insisting Zev is her friend regardless of being 'a bad guy' ('We're going to write a tv show together'), while Carl quietly admits to Katia Grim that 'reeducation' means nothing good.
The party's warm, loyal liaison is gone, her fate uncertain — a loss that stings all the more under the Bloom's new cold regime.
A small, roughly two-foot bipedal fish-like kua-tin with big expressive eyes, normally sealed in a bulky dive-suit; now absent, sent away to 'reeducation.'
The party's ousted loyal agent, sent to ominous reeducation, a live unresolved thread.
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