Q&A 6

I'm not sure if this first question is spoilery or not, so I'm putting it behind a cut-tag just in case it is:

Q: Both Mildmay, Felix, Kay and Mehitabel (and probably a bunch of other characters I've forgotten) all have at least one character who has had a major impact on their life and emotional development, but is dead (or soon to die, or offscreen, you get the picture) by the beginning of the story. Mildmay has Zephyr and Nika, Felix has Isophenus Pompey (whose name I have probably spelled hor