May-30-2019, 03:09 PM (UTC)
Good spotting Lady Persephone! I remember that bit from AF now, but at the time of reading it didn't ring any bells that it spelled out the answer to this mystery.(Btw is there any chance you might be interested in editing the wiki...? With all the re-reading back and forth that you're doing, you're in the perfect position to spot facts like this that are still missing from it.)
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
Well, I wish I had so much more time, but oh well, why not?! I'm in the thick of writing my own book, but I still find myself obsessed with TRotE and as I own all of the books and a lot of the short stories, it'll be easy for me to return to them and dig through them and unearth these verbal flame jewels such as the mystery of the Kendry solved.
It really has helped to read through most of the posts here whilst I was reading so I could keep my eyes opened for points of discussion.
OK here I go! Sorry it took hours to get back here.
Silly boring work always gets in the way of the fun stuff in life, doesn't it? I'm going to the link now. 
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