More Questions from "King of Attolia"

[sunshinebutter.livejournal.com]

Hey Guys its me again,

And its all King of Attolia, at this point. As I said, in a recent post, I've been re-reading the books.. again. And I realised that there were still questions that haunted me and I figured that since, they did for me, that they might for a few other people.

1. In a particular revealing dining scene with the Court of Attolia, After Eugenides offers to send the Erondites son back to his Cousins to question them on what happened with the water cache, and Attolia offers him her cup to drink; he asks for a dance and Attolia after hearing the beginnings of the one-handed Eddisian tune reverses her decision to dance... As he dances with her, and simultaneously takes out her hairpins.. from Phresine it is described as - "her Queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the centre of the earth." The Queen then excuses herself and Gen returns to the throne, "looking smug". Elia murmured, "Well that was revealing" and Phresine says, "Only to those with eyes to see" and Ornon agrees.

All of this time, it would seem like they have their own ways of understanding each other and for the Queen relieving anger from the pressure getting to him by joking about drinking from her cup; Or even the King being with the Queen after Relius is arrested, just sitting there in stillness for her.

My question is this: What on earth was revealed during the dance? What on earth was going on?

P.S. I've been completely infatuated with the Queen's Thief series and (lets all admit it) Eugenides and its really nice to have this little community to be able to share our infatuations together. One day this will be a international box office hit and this will be the place to be on the interweb.

Comments

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

KoA is, in part, Costis's story; but it's also Gen's story as told by Costis. The ultimate point of the book is Gen becoming king of Attolia, as it is aptly named. :)

We know Gen has earned the respect of the Guard, the attendants, and his advisers; but what about the rest of Attolia? My guess is that Costis will still play a role in the future stories, but a new narrator covering the changing winds of power in Attolia as well as the growing Mede advance would be awesome, especially if they are still stubbornly putting sand in the king's food. :)

[sunshinebutter.livejournal.com]

I loved it in CoK when you got to see Sophos' view of Eugenides after he got whipped by the Magus and how you got to see a new point of view.

That would be great, if there was so overlap.