Those are great questions that I at any rate like revisiting. I feel like certain questions I have to go through and come back to a couple of times before I feel like I've really hit on the right answer. However, I am book-less right now, which doesn't help.
1. I really think this emotion is adoration/love, yes. Other ideas have been put forward. Forgiveness was a good one. Betrayal or something like that was interesting, but didn't seem right to me. I think, for the book, it makes sense to be able to go back to this scene and see that it was there, all along, even then, but, yes, so foreign to her she couldn't see.
2. At first I thought he wasn't down with the "message" they were sending Attolia, but he tweaks her with jealous later, so probably not. And of course he's a bit grumpy from the horse-riding in public. But I think the big thing here is the whole Eddis-alone-with-the-magus thing with the guards, when she's not alone with him, Gen's there. It makes Gen feel like crap, the attitude that he's not enough to protect his queen.
I can't recall whether it makes sense to think at this point that he's already back in his habit of "portraying himself as a non-combatant" as I think Eddis later puts it, and chafing against his own decision not to show what he can do with that hook. I suspect yes because I recall him not being touchy when the magus asks about the hook/hand, but I'm not sure.
3. I keep forgetting the reason here. I know at one point I thought it was because she was putting things together and realizing that Gen had indeed kidnapped the Magus and framed Attolia for it and was just as much a threat to her as he'd ever been.
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Date: 4/21/11 03:33 pm (UTC)Those are great questions that I at any rate like revisiting. I feel like certain questions I have to go through and come back to a couple of times before I feel like I've really hit on the right answer. However, I am book-less right now, which doesn't help.
1. I really think this emotion is adoration/love, yes. Other ideas have been put forward. Forgiveness was a good one. Betrayal or something like that was interesting, but didn't seem right to me. I think, for the book, it makes sense to be able to go back to this scene and see that it was there, all along, even then, but, yes, so foreign to her she couldn't see.
2. At first I thought he wasn't down with the "message" they were sending Attolia, but he tweaks her with jealous later, so probably not. And of course he's a bit grumpy from the horse-riding in public. But I think the big thing here is the whole Eddis-alone-with-the-magus thing with the guards, when she's not alone with him, Gen's there. It makes Gen feel like crap, the attitude that he's not enough to protect his queen.
I can't recall whether it makes sense to think at this point that he's already back in his habit of "portraying himself as a non-combatant" as I think Eddis later puts it, and chafing against his own decision not to show what he can do with that hook. I suspect yes because I recall him not being touchy when the magus asks about the hook/hand, but I'm not sure.
3. I keep forgetting the reason here. I know at one point I thought it was because she was putting things together and realizing that Gen had indeed kidnapped the Magus and framed Attolia for it and was just as much a threat to her as he'd ever been.
I look forward to more questions from you!