MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 1777

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: Braid
	by "Julia D" <willowsong15-+AT+-hotmail.com>
  2) Opps and McKennit
	by Amy Trujillo <trujillo-+AT+-southwind.net>
  3) psychic stream/hawkbrothers/Storm(the poem)
	by "Nelson Greenslade" <grenslde-+AT+-nbnet.nb.ca>
  4) Re: Introduction
	by Greg Wooledge <wooledge-+AT+-kellnet.com>
  5) hehehe it's me!!!  
	by MacFey <macfey-+AT+-yahoo.com>
  6) braid
	by "* Winddancer *" <winddancer_13-+AT+-hotmail.com>
  7) Re: Braid
	by Becky Cary <recary-+AT+-phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
  8) Monarch's Own and question
	by Dancekbg-+AT+-aol.com
  9) Re: braid
	by Dancekbg-+AT+-aol.com
 10) Re: braid
	by "Angie" <heraldtg-+AT+-mbox3.singnet.com.sg>
 11) Re: Monarch's Own and question
	by "- Willowsong -" <willowsong15-+AT+-hotmail.com>
 12) Yaay!
	by "Kallia Electra Periwinkle" <kallia-+AT+-mailcity.com>

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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 16:12:23 PST
From: "Julia D" <willowsong15-+AT+-hotmail.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Braid
Message-ID: <19981107001223.27692.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com>

Hi everyone!  Now that I'm back on the list, I'm afraid you're going to 
be hearing a lot from me - please don't get TOO sick of me yet.  I'll 
try to keep the pointless chatter down to a minimum.

Down to business <clears throat, settles collar, looks very important 
and impressive>

Kenneth Alan Hyde wrote:

<Do you think that a really good Healer could actually do genetic 
engineering?>
  
     I think that it's probably possible, from what I understand of 
healing (although Misty never really goes into the logistics of how it's 
done).  As I understand it, the healer first uses healing oversight to 
assess the problem, then uses healing energy from themselves to 
"manipulate" things around.  Poof!  Problem solved.  If they can use 
energy to do this, I don't see why they couldn't use it to move around 
the little DNA structures or whatever genetic engineering involves (this 
is a subject I'm afraid I know precious little about).  Although even if 
they could do it, I'll bet it violates some oath or code of honor to be 
screwing around w/ DNA.

Tylendel Dotzauer wrote:

<Does anyone have any recommendations on how to get into Owlflight?  I 
don't know if it's because I'm too busy with college classes or if I'm 
too lazy or if the book hasn't really caught my interest yet.  I think 
I've read 2 or 3 chapters.. it just seems to be kinda slow.  But then, I 
want all of ML's books to be like LHM... hee ;-)>

     I hate to be the bearer of bad news (although this is just my 
humble opinion) but I don't feel Owlflight is up to Misty's usual 
caliber of work.  As I remember, it never caught my interest because the 
writing just sort of floated around aimlessly and never settled on a 
clear, interesting problem for the characters to deal w/ and solve.  Or 
maybe I too am guilty of comparing ever book I read to LHM (which, of 
course, was truly excellent writing. The only book I found that I feel 
is comparable is The Earthsea Quarted by Ursula K. Le Guin)

    Someone (I think it was Sorana Shadowcat) used Lorenna Mckennit 
lyrics in her signature.  I would just like to take this moment to 
identify myself as another loyal Lorenna Mckennit fan.  Book of Secrets 
is my favorite (The Visitor runs a close second).
     I seem to remember that Sorana Shadowcat also identified herself as 
a herald trainee. I'm just wondering - how did you get that title?

Kalen (One in Black):  *hug* for your truly terrible ordeal.

Okay, that's it (for now - HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!)  :)

-Willowsong

P.S.  How did everyone get all those titles in their signatures?  My 
name looks rather small and lonely all on its own.
  

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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 19:30:35 -0600
From: Amy Trujillo <trujillo-+AT+-southwind.net>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Opps and McKennit
Message-ID: <3643A2B6.4122-+AT+-southwind.net>

Heyla listsibs,

Raven Darkblade said:

>Teren? Wasn't the Mindhealer in LHM called Lancir? I think he was 
>Queen's Own for Elspeth the Peacemaker

Yep, my bad, blame it on the fact that I have not read LHM for awhile. I
knew who it was, I just forgot the name.  I think the biggest thing
about Heralds and their gifts is that a gift does not appear and the
person is not Chosen unless that gift will be needed.  The best example
of that is Griffon, he was the first firestarter in generations because
he was needed to defeat Ancar's demons.  If there was need for a
mindhealer or healer Herald one would be Chosen.

Willowsong said:

>  Someone (I think it was Sorana Shadowcat) used Lorenna Mckennit 
> lyrics in her signature.  I would just like to take this moment to 
> identify myself as another loyal Lorenna Mckennit fan.  Book of Secrets 
> is my favorite (The Visitor runs a close second).

Me too!! I love McKennit, I can listen to her songs for hours.  I also
love Steve McDonald's Sons of Somerled.  It is really similar musically
and the theme is Scottish mythology/history.  It is really, really
good.  I found it in the Firebird catalog, he just came out with the
sequal Stone of Destiny and it's pretty good too, although I have not
listened to it as much.

Until Next Time,
Sheep shaped cookies and ferret shaped brownies to everyone

Amy 
Ferret Friend
Lady of All Things Missing, Especially Socks

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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 18:53:34 -0400
From: "Nelson Greenslade" <grenslde-+AT+-nbnet.nb.ca>
To: "Misty" <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: psychic stream/hawkbrothers/Storm(the poem)
Message-ID: <011901be09ee$93a23460$96f1a4c6-+AT+-epzfbrwg>

O_o mid-terms today and the day before, mid terms on Monday and
Tuesday...30%, 40%...ACK!!!!!!

   Okay, sorry, I'm just feeling kind of stressed. Do you think the Collegia
gave anything like mid-terms?

<<Do any of ya'll belive that psychic powers exist? I belive in them, I
just don't belive that everyone who claims to have them do have them. I
just got my palm read at school today-it was free and I've always been
courisous. Besides,I didn't have anything else better to do. It was so
weird. Either that guy was for real or he was the best con- artist that
I've ever met.>>
   I do believe that psychic powers are real, but I have to say that many
palm-readers don't read your palms, they read your eyes, your face, your
body language.
   Now, as for psychic powers....I have a theory about telepathy and
empathy. I think that every human being -- maybe animals and plants, too --
are all connected by this link in our minds. Picture it like a blue stream
of thought and emotion running through the back of your mind. Sometimes the
thoughts or feelings leak from the stream into our minds. That's why two
people can have exactly the same great idea a continent away. It's stronger
when you know someone, because the pattern of your mind and theirs alter
slightly once you get to know them, so that certain parts match up ever so
slightly.
   Some people are more sensitive to the stream than others: for instance,
say such a person is at a dance with lots of other people. They just touch
the surface of all those other thoughts and emotions without actually
intercepting or even perceiving them. It can be too much to handle, and they
get dizzy. Or at a major sporting event, a more sensitive person would get a
heady feeling from not only their own excitement, but that of everyone else
in the crowd.
    Again, some people can deliberately tap the stream, choosing the psychic
"spring" of the person whom they focus on to read their thoughts and
emotions. Some of these can insert their own thoughts and fellings into the
mind of their focus.
   Telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and other physical manifestations of psychic
ability are much the same, but instead of manipulating the stream of
consciousness, it involves the personal energy each object possesses. Matter
is made of electrons and protons moving around inside atoms, which creates
energy. Just as one personality may be stronger than another, so may one
person's energy field may be more powerful than those around him or her.
This person might unknowingly affect the energy of other things, or perhaps
even do it on purpose, "it" being anything from healing to setting on fire
to levitating.
    And that's my theory.

<<Is it just me, or are the Hawkbrothers <Starwind and Moondance in
particular... I haven't read any books with others recently...> generally
funny?  Well, Magic's Pawn they had the serious role for the most part, but
Magic's Promise they seemed just _so_ comical!  :-)>>
    They are. They're...eccentric when compared to common Valdemarans, and
since most of them are mentally healthy, they usually have a healthy sense
of humor as well. Plus, at times they try to be strange and funny.

<<I'm just an AVID puddle jumper.>>
   I went to PuddleDuck Preschool. I'd jump from puddle to puddle, splashing
my mother, and tell her I had to do it, because "I'm a puddleduck." Funny,
but I can only remember going to preschool on rainy days. Hmmm....

<<BTW, what the hell is a glomp? ;-)>>
    Oh, that's a term I picked up from a favorite fanfic writer of mine,
Tayla Firedancer. I think it's a cross between a tackle and a hug.

<<What I really like is a storm. Thunder, lightning, wind--it's
exhilarating.>>
    The howling winds, the raging sea,
    The waves which crash upon the shore,
    The lightning, rain, and thunder crash,
    Like a giant knocking at my door.
    The sky is turned dark by the storm;
    Outside, it bellows, scream, and wails.
    My shadow flees the flash, accompanied
    By a sound like hoof beats in a dream.
    And the sky is black and roiling,
    And the night turns wild and fey,
    My whole world seems to be shaken
    It's beauty takes my breath away.
                              by Ashley Greenslade

<<*holds up an I LOVE KEROWYN sign* Phew, those guys just don't have her
class.>>
    *knocks the bottom of her I LOVE VAN sign against the floor, causing a
scroll at the bottom of the sign to unroll, revealing the words "and Jonne
and Moonbeam and Iceshadow and Korendil and Kerowyn and Stefen and Warrl and
Tullin and Altra and Tremane and Tarma and Medren and Skif(young) and Savil
and Mardic and Donni..."*

<<The only thing that kind of freaked me was the getting married in
later life and 2 kids. Well as I have said before I rate myself as a
5 on the Kinsey scale of sexuality [ almost entirely gay with the
very occasional lapse] Does this mean that the very small part of me
that is str8 is going to raise its head and suddenly become dominant?>>
   *smiles* I think it means that no matter how good you are at predictions,
you make mistakes now and then. That, or you'll either marry a man with 2
kids, or marry a man and adopt. *shrugs*

<<My favourite (yes..favourite. I'm Canadian. HA!)>>
   So am I, but I spell it favorite, or abbreviate it to fav. or fave.

Thanks all for now, ladies, gentlemen, and those undecided. Adieu!
Elsa
Knight of Fluff, One In Black, Member of the Order of Drifting Ashes, OoUH
Champion of Jonne, Moonbeam, and Iceshadow, caller of monsters
       who has to rush off to a doll club meeting! Ta!


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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 20:58:58 -0500
From: Greg Wooledge <wooledge-+AT+-kellnet.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Introduction
Message-ID: <19981106205858.B14154-+AT+-phoenix.local>

Saraphina Periwinkle (kallia-+AT+-mailcity.com) wrote:

> I have a question; how many of you knew that Vanyel would die before
> you read Magic's Price?

I read the Arrows trilogy before the LHM trilogy, so I knew.  There was
also quite a bit of foreshadowing within the LHM trilogy itself.

Since the Arrows books were published before the LHM books, I think most
readers were expected to know of Vanyel's fate.

-- 
"Daddy, why do those people have to    |   Greg Wooledge
  use Microsoft Windows?"              |   wooledge-+AT+-kellnet.com
"Don't stare, son; it's not polite."   |   http://www.kellnet.com/wooledge/

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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:14:34 -0800 (PST)
From: MacFey <macfey-+AT+-yahoo.com>
To: Misty List <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: hehehe it's me!!!  
Message-ID: <19981107061434.11621.rocketmail-+AT+-send103.yahoomail.com>

Heyla,

Oh, I'm feeling good... got some grades and I'm gonna make honor roll!
 All I have to do is keep up the good work.  Candy coated sheep for
those who have been testing and brandy soaked sheep for those old
enough to enjoy...

Let's see... my braid (which I still can not make Yahoo do.. if you
can please tell me how)...


Wintershard wrote --
*   I think it would be a wonderful idea for Misty to
look into Iftel. It would do two things: one, allow
her to write in a Velgarth-based society; two, allow
her to write something that is almost entirely
separate from Valdemar (the early years, remember). I
would like to see, not how the system came about, but
what it would be like for someone to live in the
warrior system that they did. Politics, blood, feuds..
and no Herald or Companion in sight... 'twould beinteresting indeed :).

Personally I would like some more detailed histories of the
surrounding lands as well.  Iftel is a mysterious enough place to
start.  I would also like to know how the other lands reacted to
Valdemar arriving in their midst and setting up house... ya know what
I mean?



OK the delete key got who wrote this...
The only thing that kind of freaked me was thegetting married in
later life and 2 kids. Well as I have said before Irate myself as a
5 on the Kinsey scale of sexuality [ almost entirelygay with the
very occasional lapse] Does this mean that the verysmall part of me
that is str8 is going to raise its head and suddenlybecome dominant?>>

DUH!  married does not mean man-woman-priest any more... take your
lover by the hand and wed.  Then adopt. If you are female you can
still have kids the old fashioned way...  me, I plan on adopting, or
utilizing modern technology.  I would very much like to be a papa one
day, but if I have to do it the natural way... well I never will.  

To the person with the Zodiac Book... my delete finger was too quick
tonight...  April 1, 1979 please.  

Uh I guess that's all tonight... 

OH! I don't like Elsbeth in the Storms books but I did before that... 
does that make sense?

And OwlFlight... it was an easy read, but a relaxing one... no stress
at all, although I did enjoy it.  

 

==
I don't suffer insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!

              Wind To Thy Wings....

                                  MacFey


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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:37:12 PST
From: "* Winddancer *" <winddancer_13-+AT+-hotmail.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: braid
Message-ID: <19981107073713.24575.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com>

                    ***<fluff>***
::Upon entering the Hall, Winddancer makes her immediate way to the 
beautifully welcoming site of the hot springs, where she proceeds to 
collapse.  From amidst the steam, you hear a rather peevish voice saying 
something to the effect of how it's rather sad when you can't even take 
ten minutes to write an e-mail due to pointless, unnecessary, but 
forced-upon-you activities.</minor rant>
Not long after, she rises, in a much improved state of mind, and 
translocates her copies of the LHM books to her presence.  She skims 
through them, re-reading her favorite parts, which puts her in a much 
better (but rather depressed) mood indeed.
                               ***</fluff>***

Angie once said:

>Misty has already said that she would not be writing on the
>Singer and Dancer (no idea why). 

Could be because we already know that their story had a horribly sad 
ending...have you ever read the song "Windrider Unchained"?  In it, it 
says that the singer and dancer gave up their new-won power (power that 
could shatter their curses at last) to free the Heir of Valdemar and his 
Companion from the prison of the Darklord.  So what kind of a story 
would it make, anyway?  they strive their whole existence to get enough 
power to break their curses so they can be together, and when they 
finally get it, they have to give it up for someone else!  
What I think might be interesting, though, is the story of Darshay and 
Windrider, the ones they freed.  Shadowdancer and Sunsinger would make 
an appearance, but you wouldn't be in their minds, so it wouldn't be 
/quite/ as heartbraking when their lives became so hopeless again.
that was a bit longer than I intended, sorry.

May:
>In "early" Valdemar, they used candleclocks, where a candlemark = an 
>hour I think. The rest of the calender was the same... ?
>Later I didn't see them mentioning candlemarks anymore, so I guess 
>they 
>found more accurate ways of keeping time. 

Actually, they're still using the candleclocks and candlemarks as late 
as the storms books.  I remember Karal talking about them once (no 
textevd, sorry).

Oh, someone (sorry, I forgot who) was saying something about how Misty's 
tone of writing had changed as early as Magic's Price...that's because 
it was the first book Larry Dixon wrote with her.  It doesn't say so on 
the cover, but I know I read that somewhere.

Okay, I really need help with something, if you wouldn't mind sparing a 
moment to give it.  I just started the SERRAted Edge books and so far 
have only read Born to Run.  And I can't find out what the next one is.  
Everywhere I look, the list is in a different order, and I hate reading 
books out of order.  So if someone actually knows, would you /please/ 
tell me?  thanks

All right, I think that's it for now...maybe I won't have to stay away 
so long next time.

Zhai'helleva,

Winddancer
unwilling semi-lurker
homepage-->http://members.tripod.com/~Windblade/index.html
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          A wolf with cubs, 
             A man with power,
                And a woman's sense of wrong!
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wrath, and all-round annoying idiot (I like that song, though!:Þ)
            

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Date: 	Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:10:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Becky Cary <recary-+AT+-phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Braid
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9811071102060.3319-100000-+AT+-flagstaff.Princeton.EDU>

First, (bad delete key! bad!) I lost who wrote this, but someone was
commenting on the covers of Vows & Honor and asking whose eyes were really
supposed to be what colors -- I'm pretty sure Tarma's were supposed to be
blue, and Kethry's were definitely supposed to be green (when they go to
visit the Plains, the kids start exclaiming about her "sunset-hair" and
"grass-eyes!").

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Kenneth Allen Hyde wrote:

> Actually, I always assumed that Donni and Mardic were doing what any
> Herald Mage with a fetching gift could do: physically controlling the loss
> of blood.
I had never thought of that -- good idea. I like it.

> The Healing Gift seems to be qualitatively different from Fetching, in
> that Healers can work on a much smaller scale (microscopic, apparently)
> and they can actually stimulate and accelerate the growth of cells in the
> body.  Maybe someone with a degree in biology could think of a way for
> conventional Fetching to do this, but I can't. =)
Hmmm. Not so much stimulating cell growth, but I can imagine using
Fetching to help close a wound, etc, by causing cells from adjacent areas
to move into the gap and stay there. It would leave you with slightly
thinner skin in that area until it had time to regenerate, but if anybody
could Fetch on that miniscule a level, it might work.

Becky

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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:46:05 EST
From: Dancekbg-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Monarch's Own and question
Message-ID: <6548bd33.3644794d-+AT+-aol.com>

Ty wrote:

<<Misty doesn't really address the Monarch's Own very often, except a little
with Shavri and Lancir, but they don't really play a major role.  It would
certainly be interesting to see some kind of short story about a Monarch's
Own.  I haven't read any of the short story books... anyone know if there
is anything like this?>>

What about Talia?  The entire series was devoted to her!  I would like to see
a short story on how the MOC chooses the MO though.  Like, what special Gifts
or personality do they look for?

Question:
Which of the Companions in Misty's books would you like to Choose you?
Assuming they hadn't already Chosen and etc?  I really liked 'Fandes, but I
liked Sayvil too.  I think that I would have liked Gwena better had she not
beent trying to lead Elspeth wherever she wanted her to go.  Any thoughts
list-sibs?

Windy

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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:03:47 EST
From: Dancekbg-+AT+-aol.com
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: braid
Message-ID: <3cadb9c4.36447d73-+AT+-aol.com>

Winddancer (hey, my fellow namer!! ;-)

<< Could be because we already know that their story had a horribly sad 
 ending...have you ever read the song "Windrider Unchained"?  In it, it 
 says that the singer and dancer gave up their new-won power (power that 
 could shatter their curses at last) to free the Heir of Valdemar and his 
 Companion from the prison of the Darklord.  So what kind of a story 
 would it make, anyway?  they strive their whole existence to get enough 
 power to break their curses so they can be together, and when they 
 finally get it, they have to give it up for someone else!  
 What I think might be interesting, though, is the story of Darshay and 
 Windrider, the ones they freed.  Shadowdancer and Sunsinger would make 
 an appearance, but you wouldn't be in their minds, so it wouldn't be 
 /quite/ as heartbraking when their lives became so hopeless again.
 that was a bit longer than I intended, sorry. >>

Whoa!  Okay, probably shouldn't be talking, but I thought that after Sun and
Shadow freed WR and D., they regained their power and got Chosen.  Anyone have
any textevd?  Probably in song-form.....

Sorry that the majority of the post was cut-and-paste!  :ducks at oncoming
fireballs:

Windy

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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 01:09:20 +0800
From: "Angie" <heraldtg-+AT+-mbox3.singnet.com.sg>
To: <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: Re: braid
Message-ID: <01be0a71$5bfc5bc0$23d415a5-+AT+-heraldtg>

eh-oh people!
*run! it's the teletubbies greeting arrgh!*
sorry, didn't mean to kill your ears. alright *to the glares of many listsibs,
she waves sheepishly and re-starts*

heyla listsibs! *happy now? ;)*

i wrote:
:>Misty has already said that she would not be writing on the
:>Singer and Dancer (no idea why).


and winddancer replied:
:Could be because we already know that their story had a horribly sad
:ending...have you ever read the song "Windrider Unchained
<snip>


well.... look, in LHM, van had a terrible ending too. in fact, it was worse.
there was this snippet in AotQ that Shadowdancer and Sunsinger both became
Heralds (that was probably the "Compassion" that "sent them onto aid") but it
didn't say if they broke their "curses" after all, with all the neat endings
that misty has been having recently, they probably got some avatar to strip the
"doom" (read: an'desha and nyara; trevalen and dawnfire)

winddancer also wrote:
:Oh, someone (sorry, I forgot who) was saying something about how Misty's
:tone of writing had changed as early as Magic's Price...that's because
:it was the first book Larry Dixon wrote with her.  It doesn't say so on
:the cover, but I know I read that somewhere.


hmm. misty wrote that somewhere. i think it was on firebirdarts.com can't be
sure...
anyhowz, i have this theory. maybe the writing is fading coz misty is including
too many characters in on the storyline? like in LHM and Heralds of Valdemar,
BtS and V&H, the story revolves around one central character or two characters
max. thus, she had the space to really fully develop the characters. but with
her later books, like the Mage Winds or the Mage Storms, the story now includes
an army of characters. looking at the much derided Winds trilogy, you can see
what i mean: firesong, skif, nyara, elspeth, darkwind, treyvan, hydona,
silverfox, falconsbane, an'desha, tre'valen, dawnfire... how much more do you
want?

but she is trying to return to charactr-work (IMO) I mean... look at SBreaking!
One chapter on Tremane, one chapter on Karal... it's as if she's trying to break
them up so that she can give them more focus/depth. but with the different
chapters, it just breaks the reader's concentration on that character...see?

wow, that was lengthy. anyhow, it's just IMHO....

have some caramel sheep for that rant... and some Oreos too!
btw, can someone please help me check up my celtic zodiac. i deleted your mail,
sorry!
my email is shadowdancer-+AT+-deathsdoor.com (pretentious, i know) and my b'day falls
on the 21st of Oct...

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Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 10:47:44 PST
From: "- Willowsong -" <willowsong15-+AT+-hotmail.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Monarch's Own and question
Message-ID: <19981107184744.9036.qmail-+AT+-hotmail.com>

Hello again!

     Getting the all important e-mails out of the way before I have to 
go to work <shudder>.

Windy wrote:
<Which of the Companions in Misty's books would you like to Choose you?  
Assuming they hadn't already Chosen and etc? >
     I'd have to say 'Fandes (so I'm unoriginal).  But after all, 
'Fandes is one of the few companions that readers get to know on an 
intimate level.  Misty only spends time w/ the companions of principal 
characters, and Talia couldn't mindspeak w/ Rolan, so I never felt like 
I got to know him very well.  There's Gwena, but somehow I never really 
got to like her.  Maybe I'm being bias because 'Fandes was in LHM (all 
praise!), but I still think she's my favorite companion.

-Willowsong



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Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 14:02:29 -0700
From: "Kallia Electra Periwinkle" <kallia-+AT+-mailcity.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Yaay!
Message-ID: <LPMKIGAHOAHPCAAA-+AT+-mailcity.com>



Thanks for the greetings, all those that greeted me, would have greeted me, or read my mail.  

Someone wrote:
>At one of the tables he picks up a bowl of salad >and sneaks up to Kallia Electra. (Or is it >Saraphina Periwinkle?) With a quick look >around he makes sure that neither of the two >bearers of the Enchated Bucket (TM) are near. >When he 
>can`t see his Mistress Shantaya neither, he >pours the contents of the bowl onto the >unsuspecting Newbie. "WELCOME!!! >WELCOME!! WELCOME!!!" Grinning he slaps >her back and tells her: "We are glad to have >you with us. Enjoy the madness and  beware of >bucket-wielding ladies."

Kallia blushes...if she can blush when she's soaking wet. 
Yes, Saraphina Periwinkle is my other alias (normal names don't work for me...), but since I'm only going to use this addres for Misty stuff, I changed the name on the email. Smart, aren't I?
Modest too. And dignified. Except you can't look dignified with wet hair.  Is there an Enchanted Towel?

Alexia/Sabrina wrote:
>Talia annoyed me as well actually- she was far >too passive... That's why I liked Elspeth more- >she got up and DID and made a path for >herself... Talia basically got her path decided for >her... and if she was going to kill herself in >prison she should have just got on with it! <very >sympathetic...> I just thought that waiting
>to see about the message was a bit- OK VERY- >thin as she took the argonal<sp> and didn't >know either at that point... oh well.
Yaaay!!  I've decided part of the reason I liked Elspeth so much is because she gets mad.  Yes, it's an unreasonable reason, but I like characters with temper problems.  Again, because I can (no pun intended) empathize.  I always thought that was so weird about waiting for the message. Since if it were me, after going through being beaten, etc., and knowing I had no chance of rescue, and not being able to DO anything about the message, I would not have waited to be tortured.  Hmm, oh well.

Becky Cary wrote:
> I'm pretty sure Tarma's were supposed to be
>blue, and Kethry's were definitely supposed to >be green (when they go to visit the Plains, the >kids start exclaiming about her "sunset-hair" >and "grass-eyes!"). 
And Tarma calling her Greeneyes.  I actually wrote this because I got confused by the covers of V&H. They seem to make Kethry as a definite blonde, but I thought she had 'dark amber' hair, which would be redder.  Maybe I'm just going blind.



~Kallia Electra Saraphina Periwinkle



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