Just an appreciation post of Mike
“We were gods. But even gods sometimes have to step down from their lofty thrones.”
Merin thought this, but I’m going to cheat and imagine Mike saying it (yeah, I’m a fangirl of the consul’s narration).
“‘Shut your mouth and follow me,’ Mike ordered, and, like a lesser member of the pantheon following an older, wiser deity, I shut my mouth and followed him.”
Yeah, he barely has any dialogue and only appears for a few pages, I know, but I found him especially memorable and likable, and the fact that we later see the consul using the Hawking mat just makes me remember him as someone even more important. Whenever I think of *Hyperion*, the first thing I usually remember is the consul’s narration, and therefore, Mike.
There’s not really much to say about him (because there’s hardly anything about him in the book), I just didn’t want you to forget him.
I found the illustration from the Hyperion Cantos wiki.