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

[(Anonymous)]

How old is Eugenides in _The Thief_? I thought (since he is quite short and clearly hasn't hit any sort of growth spurt yet) maybe about 16-17 or so. And how long a time span do the events of QoA cover? One year or two? At the beginning of the book, Eugenides is still small, but by the end of the book he's gotten a little taller...KoA seems to pick up only a few months after QoA ends...Sorry if these are ridiculous questions that have already been asked and answered.

Also, my pet theory on what "special duty" Eugenides has for Costis: Attolia is pregnant and Costis is going to be Captain of the heir's guard...

~Feir Dearig (a new lurker)

Special Duties

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

I think Costis will be Captain of Gen's Guard. As well as being sent off to deal with the Medes (because Gen cannot strangle N. with one hand...). And I think the visit to Mede Land is the actual "special duty".

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Welcome! There has been discussion on all the characters's ages. Here are a couple of the most recent threads:

http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/43335.html

http://community.livejournal.com/sounis/31764.html