Chapter Eighteen
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queensthiefQuestion under the cut, here thar be spoilers. :-)
While Sophos was a “prisoner” of Akretenesh, he gets a message from Helen that I don’t quite understand. It was the love letter which talked about the marriage in the temple, the bed, and the apricot trees. I understood that it was the three “anywhere in the world” answers from TT, but why is that important?
I could see it as reassurance that the magus was alive, but Eugenides could have given her the same information. Then I wondered if that could be a reference to Oneia, a way of telling Sophos that that’s the place to be, but that doesn’t work, either. Oneia isn’t referenced in TT at all, unless my kindle version is messed up somehow and the search option isn’t picking it up (yes, I cheated, but I was curious and didn’t have my copy of TT with me). It couldn’t have been preplanned, because Sophos only realizes it later. He wasn’t looking for it. Unless he was lying, but even Gen never outright lied to the reader. So I’m stumped.
Am I missing something? I’d love to hear what other people thought about this.
While Sophos was a “prisoner” of Akretenesh, he gets a message from Helen that I don’t quite understand. It was the love letter which talked about the marriage in the temple, the bed, and the apricot trees. I understood that it was the three “anywhere in the world” answers from TT, but why is that important?
I could see it as reassurance that the magus was alive, but Eugenides could have given her the same information. Then I wondered if that could be a reference to Oneia, a way of telling Sophos that that’s the place to be, but that doesn’t work, either. Oneia isn’t referenced in TT at all, unless my kindle version is messed up somehow and the search option isn’t picking it up (yes, I cheated, but I was curious and didn’t have my copy of TT with me). It couldn’t have been preplanned, because Sophos only realizes it later. He wasn’t looking for it. Unless he was lying, but even Gen never outright lied to the reader. So I’m stumped.
Am I missing something? I’d love to hear what other people thought about this.
