Sneaky answers to prayer. . .
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queensthief I just kind of noticed this one. Queen of Atollia Chapter 17, and Gen is marching chained, spiraling into despair:
". . . He couldn't see, except to see the queen dancing in her garden, couldn't think except of her dressed in palest green with flowers embroidered down the neck of her gown as she watched them cut off his hand. My God, he thought, I am so frightened. O my God, if you will not save me, make me less afraid. He fell on the steep trail.
He hit face first, and the stones in the mud cut into his cheek . . . Once upright, Eugenedies was facing Nahuseresh, who stood looking on, quite amused. White-hot hatred burned through Eugenedies. If he was still without hope, at least he could think clearly again." At which point, he refuses the offer of suicide as an escape.
I love subtleties like that.
So. I wonder. Is Gen going to have a second scar on his cheek? Maybe even shaped like a feather? ;)
". . . He couldn't see, except to see the queen dancing in her garden, couldn't think except of her dressed in palest green with flowers embroidered down the neck of her gown as she watched them cut off his hand. My God, he thought, I am so frightened. O my God, if you will not save me, make me less afraid. He fell on the steep trail.
He hit face first, and the stones in the mud cut into his cheek . . . Once upright, Eugenedies was facing Nahuseresh, who stood looking on, quite amused. White-hot hatred burned through Eugenedies. If he was still without hope, at least he could think clearly again." At which point, he refuses the offer of suicide as an escape.
I love subtleties like that.
So. I wonder. Is Gen going to have a second scar on his cheek? Maybe even shaped like a feather? ;)
