A Question

[yao590.livejournal.com]

Here is another question I have in KoA. It's after the assassination, in the king's room:

"If he'd been stoic and denied the pain, the entire palace would have been in a panic already, and Eddisian soldiers on the move."

l read the sentence  again and again, but I can't understand why if Gen deny the pain, then the palace would panic? I think that if the king was calm, the palace wouldn't panic.

And then "He'd mean to deceive them, and he'd succeeded."  Deceive them what? I totally can't understand these, so I am all confused about following things as well. May someone explain it for me? But just those two sentences. I'd like to try to figure out the following by myself. Thanks!! 

Comments

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

By fussing in an unconvincing way, it seems to be more for show (and thus not taken seriously). Much like a child throwing an unconvincing tantrum, or wailing vs screaming in pain and fear, it tends to be dismissed without much investigation.

They expected him to be injured, and if he had denied it ("No, no I'm fine. Really. It's nothing. Just don't ask me to remove my hand from the gaping slit in my side.") they would have insisted on examining him; the seriousness of the injury would've been very difficult to hide under close examination.

And he didn't want Attolia to know, because 1) she was already so consumed with guilt over the injury she inflicted on him, and 2) she already did not think he took reasonable precautions to protect himself, and she was very afraid of him being seriously injured or killed. She loves him, and values his life probably above her own.

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

"No, no I'm fine. Really. It's nothing. Just don't ask me to remove my hand from the gaping slit in my side."

I almost spewed water all over my monitor and keyboard at that one...