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

[rain-ing.livejournal.com]

imagine this, (after i am nearly killed)
me: no im not in pain *wince*
them: omg! stop trying to play the hero! you were nearly killed!! call the eddisians!

or this
me: ow! ow! ow! @!$)@ !@#$ !@#$ !@#$ !@# my innards are falling out!! *wince*
them: oh whatever if you have enough energy to curse you are not horrendously injured, you wimpy king!

i think its a reverse psychology thing, people will be concerned if you deny the pain after an attempt on your life, but if you create a racket people would be more inclined to think that you are less seriously injured? and i think its mentioned in the book somewhere that if he had enough energy to pile one foul word on top of the other (although i cant rmb the exact quote) meant that he wasnt in too much pain.

furthermore people didn't exactly know the extent of his injuries so they thought he might have been playing it up since he is perceived as el stupido, el wimpo, etc. by the attolian court.

and about the deceiving bit, eugenides successfully tricked them into believing that his life wasn't in danger, when in fact he could have died. by doing this he was trying to convince attolia that he wasnt in much danger else she would have had everybody slaughtered

i think?

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

me: ow! ow! ow! @!$)@ !@#$ !@#$ !@#$ !@# my innards are falling out!! *wince*

:D