[LMB] Elli, was Winterfair Gifts

[Tzivia Adler]

>> Elena refused to marry Miles because ... she knew she
>> would be drowned by him and his personality.
>
> I was slightly disappointed by this, since I liked Elena, and thought she 
> had the gumption to
> handle herself with Miles - who had, after all, been a formidable 
> influence on her all her life.
> Elizabeth
>
and yet, at that time of her life, running away from miles is the best thing 
for elena.  seh hasn't finished growing up yet.  attatching herself to miles 
in her teens would have given her some form of 'great-man's-son' disease. 
all her growth would be with him or in opposition to him, but her personal 
growth would not be independent of her hyperactive other half.

didn't ekaterin say, in different words, 'if we had met ten years ago, i 
wouln't have looked twice at you.'

they are on different life paths.   to quote miles - timing is everything. 
what if miles had never proposed on barrayar, and waited until elena was 
settled as a soldier?  a first proposal then might have gotten a differetn 
answer.  she married a soldier, after all.

ziviya.