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Teres ([personal profile] teres) wrote 2025-01-12 12:13 pm (UTC)

... Doughlass, did you intend to imply that Axis' blood has overruled his upbringing, or did you just never realise what you wrote?

SCSF: It could be either, for all I know; she does put a all-too-great emphasis on blood relations, after all (to the point that most of the important characters end up being one, through marriages).

Look, either women from Nors are particularly loose and unfaithful or they're not - hang on. Doughlass, are you trying shame the villagers for thinking infidelity is bad?

Looking at what Douglass says... I do not think that is the case. Knowing a bit where this will lead, I rather get the impression that we are supposed to think bad of them for thinking that Azhure's mother was in any way bad.

Axis, they have just a greatly respected (somehow) figure. Be nice, and stop thinking they're morons just for having different funerary customs. (The wailing in particular strikes me as being done for display, and realistically speaking the mourners will not be the ones washing, sewing, and dressing.)

Good to have that confirmed! And I fully agree; they are not harming anyone with their customs, and the Axe-Wielders are only coming through, so they have little to say to this. To be precise, though, this comes from the omniscient narrator, which means it is Douglass sneering directly at the villagers herself.

I think Arne needs to be honourably discharged on account of having lost his brain somewhere.

Yes, and all the more since he does not call in help at any point during this conversation.

No, that is an immediate death threat, because the knife is right there and Axis needs barely any time to use it.

A sharp enough blade over the carotid artery could kill very quickly, actually. Axis presumably keeps his blades sharp, so it's not all that unreasonable. (And somehow I don't either Sentinel is used to such treatment.)

Thank you for the recall! I suppose I was all too willing to give Douglass credit once again.

Good heavens, the Sentinel's healing magic must be something if Beliel's poor cracked skull isn't paining him after all that!

To be fair, he did have a "spasm of pain", but it stills feels a bit too well-healed, especially since I got the impression that Axis came in in the middle of their healing. Come to think of it, Jack and Yr only needed "a few minutes" to heal Faraday and Timozel, while Ogden takes much longer? So was Belial hurt worse, or is Ogden just worse at healing?

I do feel for Belial, and good on him for applying logical thought! (Also, would you mind a fic roundup at the end of this book?)


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