Alta has mostly spent the first week doing what she can to keep up morale and taking the temperature of the troops, both new and old, regarding the progress of the war. She's currently still determined to bring it to a close without losing too many of her people, and without excessive slaughter of the humans. She doesn't have confirmation yet that her wife is still alive; that may or may not change how she proceeds, depending on what she does eventually find out.

I have a couple of questions going into next week:
1) What is the general content of the dream communication (?) she has with the Consort?

2) What do the Imperials know about the spread of the X-pressure virus in the humans? Have they managed to capture any infected human soldiers prior to Jaunt start?