[LMB] "Half-blood woman at Tripoint"

[quietann]

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On 7/15/07, Joel Polowin <jpolowin at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Given the demonstrated prejudice of the Lakewalkers against relationships
> with Farmers, and the consequences thereof, and the poor communication
> between the cultures... where does "that half-blood woman at Tripoint"
> fit into things?  "Many's the farmwife has me to thank for providing
> her man with the treasure map, scandalized as she'd be to learn it."
>
> Assuming, of course, that "half-blood" refers to Lakewalker/Farmer.
> She's "at Tripoint"; she seems to regard herself as apart from the
> farmers but has regular contact with them.



I was curious about this, too.  This woman may have been half-blood, but she
clearly was raised around Lakewalkers, or at least *a* Lakewalker (LW
hereafter; I am really tired tonight!)

We know that LW/Farmer liaisons happen.  It isn't surprising, given how much
contact the two groups have when LWs are out on patrol.  People are people,
after all, and a lot of Patrollers are in their late teens/early adulthood,
precisely when, um, s*x is a big drive.  It's common enough that LWs even
have a slang term for having s*x with a Farmer woman: "dipping his wick in
the strange."

A man can "hit and run," but what happens when a LW woman gets pregnant by a
Farmer man?  Yes, she would be aware of when she's fertile, but people do
get carried away, and there's always beer available to be blamed :)  We
don't know for sure, but I'd assume that midwives in both societies have,
um, "herbs for regulating the monthly cycle" ... but not everyone will want
to use them.

So I think that half-blood woman at TriPoint must have a LW mother, who
taught her a thing or two about s*x.  I'd assume that a LW woman who got
pregnant by a Farmer would be thrown out of the LW tribe, but she'd still
have her knowledge to pass on to her daughter.  And the Farmers wouldn't
take in a LW woman... so no wonder the half-blood woman is "outside" both
societies....

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