[LMB] SP:TSK looking ahead to the next book

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Jo'Asia" <joasia at fandom.art.pl>
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 5:43 PM

replying a bit late, but since it was sp:, i didn't read it right away.  now 
i pretty much finished the book, if not the chapter reviews, so i'm reading 
these posts, too.

> quietann wrote:
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>>> 2.  The killing of her fetus primed the sharing knife; I don't think 
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>>> would happen with a pure "Farmer" child.
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> ACB> Lakewalkers only prime with their own deaths. "Because that's what
> ACB> works. How it works. Because we can, and no one else can. Because it 
> is
> ACB> our legacy."
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> At first, after reading the James' Travelling ARC of TSK, I have
> thought that the problem had been "An unborn farmer child's death
> somehow primed the knife, which only Lakewalkers should be able to
> do". Explaining that one could be easy as there would be some
> difficulty with testing the possibility of farmer's knife-priming
> death... "Excuse me, sir, could you stop cutting that tree so I could
> drive this bone knife through your heart to see if it would work?"
>
> I reread the book right after my own copy arrived yesterday and this
> time I noticed Dag clearly stating that *nobody but him* should be
> able to prime this knife, and I'd suppose that Lakewalkers did test
> that possibility, if only from desperation (the knife is prepared for
> X, but (s)he is already dead, and I'm dying with no empty knife ready
> for myself, so I'll try it anyway...)
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>
hmm. it seems to me that anyone could prime a proprly prepared bone knife 
w/their death, but it means more to the bone-donor to know who will get it, 
and to the death-donor to know where the bone came from.  'nobody but him' 
should be able to prime dag's knife, mostly bec he didn't intend to let it 
out of his grip until he needed it.
ziviya

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> Jo'Asia
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