[LMB] SP: TSK: Beguilement Chapter 3

[Beth Mitcham]

On 11/30/06, Tzivia Adler <tadler at yeshivanet.com> wrote:
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> >> <viewpoint switch> dag realizes that fawn is  a malice-magnet, being
> >> pregnant.  therefore he wants to tuck her away, all by herself, with no
> >> protection whatsoever.   in case of possible danger, she should just
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> >> until she figures out they are ok.  this is supposed to be enough
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> > You are the second person to make fun of Dag for this decision
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> i must have missed the first one, i dont remember any chapter 3 at all.


It was titled Re: Digest 86, I think.  Victoria L'Ecuyer wrote it.  She was
annoyed at Dag diverting any time at all to helping Fawn.

Her words:

My main issue with this chapter.... Dag behaved counter to his
established behavior and demonstrated characteristics in chapters one
and two.

He, an experienced patroller/soldier-analog, ignored a known threat in
favor of cooing over a doe-eyed girl. Since Fawn was not hysterical from
the near rape, he had no legitimate reason to stop his hunt and lose
several hours getting her to safety. This sudden and unexplained hard
left turn in Dag's character development pulled me out of the story.
There was no explanation either internally through thought or externally
in description for Dag's sudden change in operating procedures.


> oh, from dag's point of view he's doing exactly the right thing, but i am
> over-identifying with fawn, being in much the same condition myself.  so
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> far as i 'm concerned, she's an inexperienced, knocked-up gal who's just
> been abandoned by another guy she thought she liked. feh.


OK, I can see the gut instinct here, but if you pull back a bit you see that
if the world (Dag) catered to Fawn it would be a very odd story.  Should
Dag have married her out there in the woods so she would no longer be
alone?

as to higher priority, his injured partner established that dag was
> over-protective of his female partners, and woudln't be getting any more
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> them.  which must be why he did't just pack fawn onto the horse and send
> her
> on her way in the first place.


See, you and Victoria should be talking!


> for argumetns sake - he could take her to glassforge, tell the patrol that
> the malice is laired that-a-way, and take a bunch of people to help kill
> it.


That-a-way is a very big area.  That's Dag's problem.  He's not abandoning
her because he's tired of her, but because he has already let the bad guy
get really far ahead. If he goes back to glassforge, he's lost the trail and
the Lakewalkers will have to split up and cover a wide area while the
already strong malice grows in power.  Many more people could die.

I'm not saying it's an easy decision, but I think Dag's choice is
reasonable.  He doesn't abandon the young woman in the forest, but he
doesn't abandon his hunt either.

ziviya, planning to do chpater 4 tomorrow



Thanks for this -- I'm enjoying the discussions.

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