May-18-2010, 02:48 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: May-19-2010, 10:54 AM (UTC) by Lord Punctual.)
I took something of a darker connotation from the serpent-baby. I reminds me of (spoiler for Dragon Haven) I don't think it's a direct correlation, but maybe more of a symbolic one. Even in Bingtown women sometimes have monstrous offspring, inviable babies born with serpent's tails or scales or claws or the wrong number of limbs. Perhaps this is a portent that symbolically, Etta will give rise to a "monstrous child" - namely, the cut throat mini-kingdom of the Pirate Isles.
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