[LMB] HH Epilogue

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Kalina Varbanova" <kikibug13 at gmail.com>
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> Fara is disposed to widowhood and seems content with it.
i think she had quite enough of being married.  perhaps in a decade or so, 
she'll meet someone to rusticate with, or someone who makes it worth going 
back to the capital city.
i like the line, she was grimly pleased that her spirit horse rendered her 
less a prize for some new political marriage.'    so perhaps after she heals 
from this dreadful night, she might fall in like with someone, and make a 
non-political marriage.

> I was also glad her headaches got rid of... she  deserved some 
> compensation for getting an unwanted, and to her mind,soiling, 
> soul-animal.
>
i do wonder if hte headaches started before or after she was married?  and 
if after, did the headaches have a back-brain basis:  oh no, not 
pregnant -again-, my husband is going to drift even further from me now... 
in which case, removing wencel would definitely remove the cause of hte 
headache.


> Ingrey's cousin seems rather sceptic, but he is hospitable. The room
> where his life changed paths is smaller and more provincial than he
> recalls her. Which is a good sign how much Ingrey has grown - his
> experience allows him to see the reality of this room of - well - fate
> for him, in the perspective of his larger experience.
>
yes.  ingrey's thought, how can a stone room get smaller?   reminds me of 
ekaterin's puzzlement when her brother seems so much smaller.  yet the room 
and the brother remained the same... with rather liberating 
self-realizations coming on the heels of puzzlement.

> Of course, the drastaB grants his saint's prayer to give the divine
> vision to Ingrey and Ijada.
ingrey tries to empty himself of his own will, and is being very, very tired 
enough?  a most inappropriate moment for laughter, but having too many 
sleepless nights lately this had me rolling.

> When they meet the ghost, he is very much faded... and Ingrey realizes
> he no longer remembers the appearance of his father's face. Because it
> was not his face that mattered, it was his presence that warmed Ingrey
> as a child. And gave him an illusion of security.
i like that he wonders if his own children will forgive  him when tehy 
discover the illusion.  it is such a rare forward-looking moment for ingrey, 
yet he manages to make it bleak.  every silver lining must have its cloud!

> If one drop is not enough, even a bucket of of your blood won't be enough.
>
but a mourning son will try, and try...  and all he is able to give is a bit 
of peace - your sacrafice is not in vain - and a son's love.  which is not 
nothing, either.  *sniff*

> On to bed, in the name of our progeny  :)) I like that... ambiguity.
> It could be taken literally in context, and literally out of context
> (a "say what" quote?)
>
and i can warm my feet on your back :)  i like ijada.  she's so practical :) 
:)

ziviya 



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