Mar-21-2010, 01:27 PM (UTC)
Yes, there's that brief mention in AA about "Other Folk" with webbed feet and a fear of cats. (In the very beginning of chapter 9.)
There was also an indicent with Kennit and the Others. He found a bag of drowned kittens on the beach of their island and terrified them by telling them about it (of course he lied, saying there were more than there actually were and that some were alive). It is then mentioned that their fear of anything feline is almost as legendary as their ability to sooth-say. This is all in the first chapter of Ship of Magic, if you want to look it up. (Drowned kittens also make think of Thick, but I doubt that's really related. And I also wonder whether these kittens were truly blue, or if the colours from the bag (red and blue) had dyed the bodies in the water. And why does one of them have an earring?
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Hmm. Then there's a weird mention in Ship of Destiny (chapter 11) when Etta is talking with Bolt and the "dragon" instructs her about behaviour fitting for females, that they should act like queens and not wait for males to decide on things like breeding. And Etta wonders about the term queens (because Kennit is aspiring to be a king), though she knows that Bolt simply uses it of all female dragons. The quote I'm thinking about is "Female dragons were queens, like cats." That's an interesting juxtaposition, although I have to ask (since English isn't my native language) - do people really refer to female cats as queens in English? (I fear we simply refer to them here as female or girls or, err... bitches.
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I really need to reread the LST again.
There was also an indicent with Kennit and the Others. He found a bag of drowned kittens on the beach of their island and terrified them by telling them about it (of course he lied, saying there were more than there actually were and that some were alive). It is then mentioned that their fear of anything feline is almost as legendary as their ability to sooth-say. This is all in the first chapter of Ship of Magic, if you want to look it up. (Drowned kittens also make think of Thick, but I doubt that's really related. And I also wonder whether these kittens were truly blue, or if the colours from the bag (red and blue) had dyed the bodies in the water. And why does one of them have an earring?
)Hmm. Then there's a weird mention in Ship of Destiny (chapter 11) when Etta is talking with Bolt and the "dragon" instructs her about behaviour fitting for females, that they should act like queens and not wait for males to decide on things like breeding. And Etta wonders about the term queens (because Kennit is aspiring to be a king), though she knows that Bolt simply uses it of all female dragons. The quote I'm thinking about is "Female dragons were queens, like cats." That's an interesting juxtaposition, although I have to ask (since English isn't my native language) - do people really refer to female cats as queens in English? (I fear we simply refer to them here as female or girls or, err... bitches.
)I really need to reread the LST again.
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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