[LMB] comments on just finishing "The Hallowed Hunt" (comment #1)

[Tzivia Adler]

From: "Elizabeth Holden" <azurite at rogers.com>
> I was mildly disappointed that in the end, Ingrey
> didn't assume the throne of Easthome, or even take
> over the Sealmaster's position of power (already
> adequately filled, thank you, by Hetwar).
>
> In "Shards of Honour" I found it so satisfying in the
> end that Aral became Regent of Barrayar,
> ....  Keeping the balance, as it were, between happiness
> and stress; capability and duty; need and response to need.
>
> it was a little disappointing to see him just retire, his job done.
>
a rather interesting comparison.  however, i seem to remember a (short?) 
honeymoon betewen aral and cordelia, in which they got to laze around and 
enjoy each other, before aral got shanghaied for the new promotion.  he 
wasn't exactly snatched from the wedding feast.

give ingrey a chance to enjoy his new wife, and to recover from blood loss 
and exhaustion, both physical nad spiritual.  i have no doubt that he - and 
likely, ijada too - will grew bored of rusticating and start to travel a 
bit.  and i have no doubt at all that hetwar, if not biast, will dangle 
shiny new mysteries for ingrey's curiosity.

but if ingrey tried to be king, it would not be like aral's publicly heroic 
persona taking the crown.  it would be like miles, physically/spiritually 
damaged in public opinion, and all heroism locked under secrecy.  who would 
back him?  biast wouln't fight him, but the other king-candidates and their 
vote/backers would throw a lovely civil war for him.


> This goes double for Ijada.  Ingrey would be a great
> king because she would be a great queen.
>
isn't s she still too naive?  g-d-touched, and in her own case correct, but 
how would she deal with the back-stabbing smooth talkers who alwasys show up 
at court?


> I don't know the population of Ijada's holding that
> they go to live in (minus 4,000 now-released dead
> souls), but it's described as small.
>
small backwaters can have thier own tragedies, as does 'mountains of 
mourning.'

> So in my imagination, after the end of the book, Biast
> calls Ingrey to his service because there is a greed
> need to be met, and Ingrey and Ijada again take a role
> in the larger governance of the realm.
>
oh, yes!  i would love a book like that.  or a fanfic like that!  *looks 
around hopefully*
ziviya 



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