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E asked Marie Brennan:

Thank you so much for interacting with your fans! Another world building question: what do you imagine was Jacob's oceanographic discovery that got him into the Colloquium? And did he and his mother ever partner up with any field work as adults, ie was there any overlapping project in their work?

Marie Brennan I don't actually have an answer to that first one! (Honestly, I don't know enough about oceanography to come up with a good answer.) He and Isabella probably worked together at some point, though -- maybe further research on sea-serpents and their migratory life cycle, or something like that.

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