Mouse and Dragon – Chapter 13

In which Aelliana and Daav communicate.

Now, this is more like it. I’m glad this isn’t one of those stories where the characters drag on in misery for chapters on end over something that could be cleared up easily if they just talked about it.

It occurs to me that Daav’s error is in some ways similar to Aelliana’s error of a few days earlier. Aelliana shut out her comrades for fear of them getting hurt, without giving them a chance to decide for themselves what level of risk they were prepared to accept for her sake, when as it happened they would have been prepared to accept the risk and to point out that the risk was less than fear made it seem; that also describes what Daav tried to do to Aelliana. Fortunately, this time it got sorted out before anyone got seriously hurt.

And in the midst of all that drama, a passing mention of a plan of the delm’s that will become important later. No, two passing mentions of projects of Daav’s that will become important later; this chapter is also the first in which the name of Kiladi is mentioned.

2 thoughts on “Mouse and Dragon – Chapter 13

  1. Othin

    I just realized it is the first time ‘Tree-Kin’ is mentioned. “She was his lifemate and thereby Tree-kin. She had a right to the gift.”
    I wonder if Daav’s father also falls into the category Tree-kin – even though he never was a lifemate.

  2. Ed8r

    Othin; I wonder if Daav’s father also falls into the category Tree-kin – even though he never was a lifemate.

    Surely he must, since the Tree offered him its fruit/nuts?

    Jumping (way-y-y-y) ahead, we see in Neogenesis possibly the beginnings of a whole new definition of Korval “kinship,” as defined by the Tree.

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