Feb-08-2012, 12:09 AM (UTC)
^ I can't believe you're letting Selene get away with that one word answer (though I'm impressed too Selene! 
). No wheres or whys??!! You beings are slipping! 
Right. I expect I'll have to guess now because I'm starting the second chapter and likely to stumble on the answer soon (if I don't decide to stay put on Others' Island for a little while longer...so many things to still uncover/discover about that place and all that happens there!!
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While Althea has hooks in me, I think I'm going to have to go with Ronica grieving for Ephron. That would place it fairly early on in SoM, while her grief is still fresh. It has to be her as I just can't think of where Althea had nothing else but grief...she always had some other emotion to anchor herself with. Ronica, on the other hand, was cast adrift and though she felt other emotions, they were the kinds of things that she had to work through within her grief and weren't 'true' eg Her anger. While she was angry with Ephron, it was not 'true' anger...rather it was an anger drawn from the frustration and grief that they would never spend those years and times together. My husband and I have planned similar things, made similar promises to each other etc and I know that I too would be angry at him, even if only briefly, for letting death get in the way of those things. Of course, then I'd be all awash once the tears fell...
Ronica didn't have time for such grief though.
Argh! Now that I think it's Ronica, I'm not even sure if Ephron had actually died at the time I'm guesing the quote happened. I have a feeling that it was during her bedside vigil with him prior to his death because I think I recall her being rather introspective at that point, and that's likely the time she shared that moment of grief with us.
David was hanging around there somewhere too...??
Since I'm feeling that Ephron was in bed at the time, it actually HAD to be prior to his death because he died ("drowning on a dry deck" from memory) on Vivacia's deck and later thrown into the sea.
So, I'll say it was Ronica speaking of Ephron, in expectation of his death, during the very early stages of SoM?
). No wheres or whys??!! You beings are slipping! (Feb-07-2012, 12:23 PM (UTC))thul Wrote: The answer to R2Q1 is somewhere in your posts, possibly in a few pieces, but it is there, farseer.
Right. I expect I'll have to guess now because I'm starting the second chapter and likely to stumble on the answer soon (if I don't decide to stay put on Others' Island for a little while longer...so many things to still uncover/discover about that place and all that happens there!!
).While Althea has hooks in me, I think I'm going to have to go with Ronica grieving for Ephron. That would place it fairly early on in SoM, while her grief is still fresh. It has to be her as I just can't think of where Althea had nothing else but grief...she always had some other emotion to anchor herself with. Ronica, on the other hand, was cast adrift and though she felt other emotions, they were the kinds of things that she had to work through within her grief and weren't 'true' eg Her anger. While she was angry with Ephron, it was not 'true' anger...rather it was an anger drawn from the frustration and grief that they would never spend those years and times together. My husband and I have planned similar things, made similar promises to each other etc and I know that I too would be angry at him, even if only briefly, for letting death get in the way of those things.
Of course, then I'd be all awash once the tears fell... Ronica didn't have time for such grief though.
Argh! Now that I think it's Ronica, I'm not even sure if Ephron had actually died at the time I'm guesing the quote happened. I have a feeling that it was during her bedside vigil with him prior to his death because I think I recall her being rather introspective at that point, and that's likely the time she shared that moment of grief with us.
David was hanging around there somewhere too...??
Since I'm feeling that Ephron was in bed at the time, it actually HAD to be prior to his death because he died ("drowning on a dry deck" from memory) on Vivacia's deck and later thrown into the sea.
So, I'll say it was Ronica speaking of Ephron, in expectation of his death, during the very early stages of SoM?
"I am the Catalyst, and I came to change all things. Prophets become warriors, dragons hunt as wolves."
My poor copy of SoM is in pieces. 
Oh well, as good an excuse as any to save up and buy all new copies of the entire RotE series...the old ones can be my 'research' copies. 
She was with Jathan (Carillion's husband) but thinking of Retyo in that moment. 
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