[LMB] HH Chapter 21

[Tzivia Adler]

sorry this is coming in late, but better then never, i hope - ziviya

From: "Kalina Varbanova" <kikibug13 at gmail.com>
> OK, here goes...
>
> For some reason, the first part of the chapter always seems to me like a 
> darker version of Teidez's death scene ...
>

i just liked the difference between the physician with his air of depressed 
quiet, that his medical efforts were in vain, and between the divine of hte 
father's order, who is ready to begin his own work.
although when the divine tells fara not to be afraid, not to worry - you'd 
think that anyone senior enough to attend the king's deathbed would be 
experienced enough to know mourners who are waiting to hear the last breath 
are -not interested- in vague comfort.  as indeed, fara is not at all 
comforted, not has she been afraid or worried.  just annoyed at the 
interruption her private thoughts.


> And then the king is dead. And the broken Hallowed King, separated  soul 
> from spirit (don't know if this is precise, just the way I  picture it), 
> is whole again.
 that sounds like a good way to describe it.  ingrey noted when something 
sepeated from the soul going to the father, and noticed again that 
horseriver caught the whatever it was.  he realized that there had been two 
crippled kingships before, and now just one.
wencel's very first act  is to mentally leash ingrey and his great wolf, 
which incidentally unhooked his connection to ijada.  a double shock.  next 
he puts the touch on fara his wife, and says her shock is a sick headache, 
which she has on and off through the book.

>  If I were Ingrey at that point, I would probably think at that moment - 
> Oops. I think I made an error. I shouldn't have let them talk me into 
> accepting Horseriver as my master, or I could have avoided being here 
> right now... or something like that. Just... realization that his  enemy 
> is beyond reach, it seems.
>
oh, yes.  definitely.

> And then there is obedience, without actual will to go against the
> wishes of the master; and then there is analysis (which gently
> introduces hereto unknown information to the reader).
>
obedience is scary, unthinking obedience is terrifying.

> I really like the idea of the three figures, wrapped in darkness - and
> in Horseriver's will - passing unknown Biast and Hetwar's group in the
> night-dark, foggy streets. So simple, logical, yet so chancy.
it's so believable, and yet it seems a big gothic romance, cloaked figures 
walking past each other without seeing the others in the dark and gloom...

And in
> it is a short idea of why Hetwar is called seal-master. ... just a 
> snippet, but
> it hints at a set of traditions that I would like to know more
> about...
>
me, too :) its nice to know that there are cultural things going on, even if 
they are not important to the main story.

> I like the tying of the loose end with Ingrey and his horse - earlier,
> Ingrey intends to get his horse used to himself, but there doesn't
> seem to be time for that, and Horseriver's easy subdues beast as it
> has subdued guards.
i wonder if ingrey could have used the weirding voice on the horse, too. 
although vomitting up blood seems a bit much just for quiet.  couln't 
horseriver have let ingrey deal with a nervous horse, and hit the groom over 
hte head instead of sending home to forget?
<snicker> bleeding ulcers run in the family.  we give them to each other :)

> The blood sacrifice, now as explicit as it can get - this is a clue
> that definitely leads somewhere. Where?
>
wherever horseriver is taking htem all so secretly.  obviously.  blood = 
bloodfield? although if they were going to ijada's place, shouldn't they 
take her too?

so there they are, led by a madman, running off to who knows where, 
incapable of thinking of escape, and ingrey takes time to note that if they 
get out of htis alive, hetwar is going to lecture him severely.  how ingrey 
of him. :)  ah well, maybe they'll die and be spared the yelling ;)
ingrey also thinks, if they survive, if fara is not condemned for her spirit 
beast, that will be good for ijada, so it seems ingrey is thinkng about her 
even without the link connecting htem.

ziviya 



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