t’s difficult to find entitled and spoiled underhivers, given the crushing poverty and endemic violence of their surroundings – but they do exist, and the Gorvos siblings are among them. Both Gaen and Vunder are scions of the notorious Gorvos clan of the Two tunnels triumvirate – though Gaen shares none of her brother's delusions about the world. Vunder genuinely believes himself a hive noble, aping any uphive fashions or affectations he happens to hear about, and is universally despised as a result. Gaen, on the other hand, knows that the only way for the Gorvos clan to hold onto power is