[LMB] SP: TSK:Beguilement Chapter 1-2

[Tzivia Adler]

 Chapter 1-2

many thanks to robert parks for sending me a spare copy!  i find i enjoy a 
story much better in printed, bound format than electronic, which i can only 
read sitting at my computer

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chapter 1

fawn introduces herself to us with the classic line, 'whats a smart girl 
like me doing in a situation like this?'  which makes me, for one, try 
tofigure out waht exactly her situation is.

next pargraph - she's vomitting in the morning.  being that i'm in the same 
predicament, , pregnancy is immediately deduced :)  adn i wonder where the 
other parent is.    aaah, that must be her 'situation'.  so how will she get 
out of it?

 the next character is the elderly farmwife, who calls fawn a child.
that is likely the --most-- aggravating thing you can call a person who has 
just finished being a child, especially if she is rather in over her head.

a bunch of horsemen come, and the farmwife suggests fawn hide in the apple 
tree.  no dummy, that old lady!  doesn't know, but suspects...

fawn mentally lists everything she knos about lakewalkers.  included on the 
list is wierd bed customs, which no one will tell ehr.  i wonder if they 
told her about her own culture's bed customs, and if not, is that how she 
ended up throwing up alone?

a one handed lakewalker-patroller sits down under her tree, adn more plot is 
revealed.  then tehy leave.

fawn leaves the farm for glassforge.  as she walkes, she calls up her tired 
anger at sunny, the stupid nasty stupid foo.  interesting that 'stupid' is 
ehr repeated insult.  its kind of... school-room.  did her family leave out 
her education in cuss-words, along with her education in bed-customs?  also 
this short girl has to -practice- saying she's twnety.  so what is she, 
sixteen?

chapter 2

the one-hand dag is patrolling with a nervous youngster.  'you'll do fine', 
he says.  he has no idea how hte youngster will do, but the boy believes him 
completely, oh dear.  dag adds that you can't have a disaster w/o rain, so 
they'll certainly be ok, eh?  :)

what's this groundsense they keep talking abot?  and mud-men?

the youngster finds out that a long sword is very manly, but not so good in 
close-up situations.  hmmm, the groundsense can be used to speed healing. 
interesting.

dag tracks 2 run-away bandits, and we switch to fawn.  she's tired and wants 
a lift to glassforge, but everyone she meets is giong the other way.  now 
she meets 2 riders on one horse, also going the wrong way.  they take an 
unhealthy interest in her, and though she tries to run, they take her.

interesting:  fawn wishes for her brothers, though they are usuallly a 
plague on her.  how much plauge?  enough that she can't rely on them to 
force a wedding on stupid sunny, enough to fear they might actually take his 
side and call her bad names?

dag is still tracking hsi 2 bandits, and surprise!  they are the ones who 
took fawn.  he hurries when she starts yelling, even though he's totally 
exausted.  however, he is very happy to be -not too late-.  the human bandit 
dies of the arrow-wound, the mud man runs away.  fawn fights dag until she 
realizes he's not a bandit.  dag is upset that teh bandit dies, he wanted a 
prisoner.  'good intentions where have we met before?' :)

teh chapter ends with dag and fawn recognizing that they almost met at the 
farm house.
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