[LMB] A question about TSK:B (attn to LMB and others :)

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 06:19 PM 2/10/2007, Jude Mustard wrote:
>It has been more than 3mths since the release of the
>book :) so no more spoiler space. (Based on Oct 10,
>2006, which is the date given on the amazon website,
>it's 4mths now.)
>
>I was a bit puzzled by something (ref pg 293 on the
>HC.)
>
>When Dag is explaining to Fawn about string-binding,
>he says something which doesn't make sense to me --
>that if someone is out in the field and feels the
>ground draining out of the cord that they're wearing,
>it tells them that their spouse has died, but that
>they hope that it's just the string that's been
>destroyed in a tent fire or something.
>
>What I don't get is this: they're each wearing the
>string with the other person's ground in it, right?
> >From what I understand, if one partner dies, the other
>would feel the partner's ground draining out of the
>string that they themselves were wearing. However, if
>the partner's string was just destroyed, they would
>feel their own ground "coming back," or maybe they'd
>feel nothing at all? Either way, seems to me that the
>two feelings should be quite different.
>
>Only way I can make it fit is by saying that the two
>bracelets are linked to each other, and if one's
>destroyed, the other would cease to work as well.
>
>Anyone else puzzled over this?

I would have said that he wears a string imbued with her ground, she 
wears a string with his ground.  He feels her ground in her string; 
if she dies, her ground drains from the string he's wearing.  I would 
guess he doesn't feel anything if the string she is wearing is 
destroyed.  In the particular case, she, not having ground sense, 
might not know if he died, but he would definitely know if something 
happened to her.


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Regards, Pete
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