Kiss of Death and Turlough's timeline
Well, his timeline was all jumbled from Planet of Fire, so I cannot say that Kiss of Death made it any worse.
From my own impression I'd have to go with time travel as our explanation of why Turlough was a serving officer when Malkon was an infant and their apparent ages later. I know that very idea has been proposed before, but I think this gives it additional weight. The war isn't over yet in KoD and Turlough was an adolescent 3 years ago. As for Lomand not being surprised at Turlough's age, I guess it's fill-in-the-blank on your explanation. I'm going to go with him knowing Turlough was traveling with a time traveler for the moment.
On a sidenote, it seems like there was a line about Turlough's father and brother and that he didn't know what had become of them (or indicated something other than the colony planet), but for the life of me, I can't recall the specifics. Can anyone else?
Now I can't promise I didn't miss a line or two and end up getting completely the wrong idea, but those are my thoughts.
From my own impression I'd have to go with time travel as our explanation of why Turlough was a serving officer when Malkon was an infant and their apparent ages later. I know that very idea has been proposed before, but I think this gives it additional weight. The war isn't over yet in KoD and Turlough was an adolescent 3 years ago. As for Lomand not being surprised at Turlough's age, I guess it's fill-in-the-blank on your explanation. I'm going to go with him knowing Turlough was traveling with a time traveler for the moment.
On a sidenote, it seems like there was a line about Turlough's father and brother and that he didn't know what had become of them (or indicated something other than the colony planet), but for the life of me, I can't recall the specifics. Can anyone else?
Now I can't promise I didn't miss a line or two and end up getting completely the wrong idea, but those are my thoughts.