Loose threads

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

In KoA, after the assassination attempt, when Gen and Costis are walking back to Gen’s room... It’s been noted (I missed this on I don’t know how many readings of KoA) that the comments about Gen’s bloody hand probably refer to  blood from the slice in his palm from the assassin’s long knife.  And when he wakes up screaming from the nightmare, and is staring at his bloody hand (and the blood spotted nightshirt), again it’s the sliced palm bleeding, not his sliced abdomen.  Is it fear of losing his remaining hand, and possibly his life, prompting the nightmare?  General flashback to when his right hand was cut off, and the entire health nightmare which followed?

 

Then, when Costis shakes him awake from the beginnings of the next nightmare (later, in the Queen’s bed), Attolia comes in and Gen says the “tell me you won’t…” bit – is this residual from the previous nightmare, combined with his close brush with death bringing back the “deaf, dumb, and blind” fear from QoA?

 

Because it’s not from the first nightmare, after the fight with his wife, that he is so shaken, and needs the “tell me you won’t …” reassurance – that comes after they’ve decamped to her room, and apparently reconciled their differences.

 

Or maybe I’m just reading too much into it all.

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[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

don't have time to actually look at what you've said--but your music--LOL.