[LMB] SP: TSK:B Chapter 10

[Victoria L'Ecuyer]

Chapter 10

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Dag goes back on Patrol -- very reluctantly. Fawn makes friends at the 
inn and in town while being helpful - also shows that Fawn is insatiably 
curious about everything and especially about Dag. Fawn is only accepted 
among the Lakewalkers as long as she's showing the Malice marks.

Lakewalkers are opaque to outsiders -- Fawn can't tell the Patroller 
groups apart. Fawn learns more and so do we with her. Lakewalkers have 
Farmer prejudices, and one accidentally insult Fawn. Dag takes offense, 
and Mari notices. Fawn dismissed the exchange. She saw it as the insult 
as the speaker being an "ordinary lout” as discussed in conversation 
with Mari.

Dag is fretful when separated from Fawn. Mucho Bondo. The fellow 
patrollers start twitting him on it.
Dag: “I’m not being jealous..." *grits teeth* "I’m not being jealous...”
Saun: "Dude, she's all about you."
Dag: “Oh." *blinks* "I guess that’s okay then.”
Saun: *sniggers* “Dude.”
Mari is very much against the Mucho Bondo Thing. Dag knows he shouldn't 
be doing what he is but doesn’t want to stop.

Dag outfits Fawn for the road with tack for her horse/war prize. This is 
important since they're taking the knife for further exam and stopping 
at her farm on the way. Fawn is very reluctant to go and gets a promise 
from Dag not to leave her there, at the farm.

Some mutual Farmer/Lakewalker history. Lakewalkers responsible for the 
Farmers moving into the area. The information seems lost to most 
farmers, or at least Fawn. The two factions are remnants of an older 
people. Malice history, they are a war remnant, emerging from the ground 
like cicadas and collect things to give them a body.

Glimpes into the Patroller life -- busy and over worked. Endlessly so. 
Lakewalkers are badly understaffed and over worked (10 lakewalkers to 
support 1 patroller).

Landscape - Swamps and rocky ravines to add to the hills. We have 
politics to add to the mix. Lakewalker needs vs. Farmer wants and 
unknown needs for Malice protection.


Story Deduction:
General consensus for Lakewalkers -- “Farmers are not good enough to 
sleep with let alone marry”. That makes Dag’s and Fawn’s romance very 
“wrong side of the track” and very nearly “Romeo and Juliet.” It also 
re-inforces my impressions about Lakewalker blood lines. “Dipping your 
wick in the strange” indeed. Petti Horseforge, the farmwife, had a right 
to be angry about her cousin’s treatment. Mari and Petti have the same 
world view “Never the Twain Should Meet”

Dag should have been string bound and fathering children by now as per 
his genetic duty. Dag is still living day by day, but wants Fawn 
tomorrow and beyond. Dag was pretending to be dead but now he is now 
coming back to life again thanks to Fawn. The process seems painful.

Dag is antagonistic with his Mom. Mom sounds pushy. Incluing? Foreshadowing?

Fawn is more forgiving of unintentional slights. Dag defends her to 
Lakewalkers the way she defended him to Farmers. Incluing? 
Foreshadowing? Either way, it’s a nice balance of care and concern. Not 
quite a “You and me against the world” but things seem to be heading in 
that direction.

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Victoria