Caina vs. Callatas – personal loathing

One of the fun things about writing GHOST IN THE WINDS was that Caina and Callatas had such a level of personal contempt for each other, as especially shown in Chapter 17 of GHOST IN THE PACT.

I don’t think Caina had that with manyof her previous foes. She hated Maglarion, of course, and by the end she came to hate Sicarion as much as she had hated Maglarion. Caina also hated the Red Huntress, but she was also frightened of the Red Huntress, and its hard to feel contempt for someone who terrifies you.

With the Moroaica, by the end Caina felt a twisted sort of respect, mostly because their backgrounds were very similar. The Moroaica was on a centuries-long rampage of revenge, and Caina could understand that on some level.

But Maglarion and Sicarion and Kalgri were all looking out for themselves, without any pretensions to virtue. Callatas, though, insisted that he was making a better world, that he was doing not only the necessary thing but the right thing, and furthermore felt the need to justify himself at length. This absolutely disgusted Caina. Callatas, for his part, thought Caina was an archaism, a fool clinging to an old world, and was infuriated that she couldn’t understand that he was doing the right thing (or so he thought). That meant they couldn’t stand each other on a personal level.

So as a writer, writing their scenes together was great fun!