When he eventually left the craft, to go on his first tour of duty for the Culture - a series of missions which culminated in him taking the Chosen to the Perfumed Palace on the cliff - it was on a ship just starting its second tour of duty; the General Contact Unit Sweet and Full of Grace. He never saw Chori again, and heard that she’d been killed on active service some fifteen years later. He was told this news while they were regrowing his body on the GSV Congenital Optimist after he’d been beheaded on - and then rescued from - a planet called Fohls.
