My problem with the MSQ this time was Y'shtola, but mainly because I felt like she sort of sucked the air out of the room.

Her interactions with Zero were given the primary focus--even though I could very easily see Zero having interesting dynamics with the other two as well as Y'shtola. For example, Estinien on the surface likes to act a lot like Zero, pretending that his friendship towards us (and now the other Scions/Vrtra) isn't as much of a factor in his actions as it actually is. I'd like to see Zero put him on the spot by asking him what he's "getting" out of coming to the Void. And, for Vrtra, considering the amount of aether he has, I would have found it interesting if she insisted on him being the primary feeder for the deals Y'shtola brokers, or even Vrtra getting frustrated with her transactional nature when they got more concrete word regarding his sister and she wants to haggle down to the last drop of aether what they can and can't expect from her.

I've said in the past I feel like the writers sort of rely on Y'shtola in a way I don't like, namely to use her as a narrative device to explain locales or new functions of magic to us. This means her "hunches" or "theories" tend to be "fact" nine times out of ten, instead of something she has to refine and work on as she gains more knowledge. I would have liked to see the Void be a struggle for her to navigate or something to throw her more off guard than she was. Something that makes her feel like she's also going with us into uncharted waters, instead of acting as our all-knowing navigator through them. I don't mind her and Zero having a unique bond in theory--and there's certainly time for the others to get their own with Zero--but I will confess 6.2 MSQ did leave me a little colder overall than I would have liked going into 6.3.