Of Dust and Dreams and Locust Alone were the two standouts for me this issue. I was expecting some kind of tragic twist ending to Dust, since much of the story was about throwing yourself on a grenade for your family. I wasn't expecting the finale of the story to be "anyway, here's the reasons the Society is totally cool and good, wanna join?" I generally don't care for Clan material but this one won me over.
Locust was a story that, as I think about it, could have easily been a dud. I can see a different version of this story that is really loaded down with exposition and it really struggles under the weight of it. But the author did a really good job of doling out information only when it was relevant and stretching that out over the course of the story. It's really hard to balance that and I thought the author succeeded where a lot of people don't.
