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August 29, 2024
Haha too much unaccounted for by the tidy tales ….
From her dream
was that an image from the past, or an image from the future?
how many different ways might three people kill two of each other with one knife?
Haha - a math problem
Lady Cattilara, however, saw both. Spoke to both. Told whatever tales she pleased, to both. Let us see if we can change that condition.
The rope was beginning to thicken slightly.
Haha - still no trust or approbation.
She willed the rope to shorten,
More than just sight had been included in the Bastard’s gift, it seemed, for the manipulation seemed effortless.
Is it the rope that brings Arhys. Question.
Lord Arhys
Haha
“Lord Arhys,” said Ista. “How long have you been dead?”
ARHYS’S
Five gods. He really does not know.
The rope of white fire between the two was short and thick.
Haha when Ista says sit, you sit.
Haha
The time I brought back Goram and the ground plan of Castle Hamavik.”
Regent Dowager Joen
“My faithful flank man.”
Haha - pre-airplanes talk for wing man.
the best swordsman in Caribastos, hobbled by his own trousers—
Haha - farce.
“Who are you?”
Haha he remembers he doesn’t know. Ch. 13 p. 233
The sorceress died, and the demon is in neither of you, I assure you. Who’s left?”
Haha
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“Good, Arhys,” muttered Illvin. “Stand up to her, for once.”
Cf. when Gooper tells his wife to “shut up” in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
The demon,
on certain narrow issues, Cattilara was more willful. More than willful: obsessed.
“You do realize,” Ista said, “that the demon is stealing life from Illvin to keep Arhys . . . moving?”
Haha obsessed - and selfish.
“Four persons combined to effect an outcome desired, I daresay, by none.
The demon!
demons thrive on misfortune and disorder; it is their nature, and the magic they lend partakes of that nature.
I’d arranged Illvin
Haha
The artistic malice of Illvin’s naked arrangement took her aback.
Haha
“Very many people suffer, who are not at fault,” she said. “It’s not a new condition in the world.
Ista hesitated, shaken in her certainties. Uncertainties, her bleak thought corrected.
Arhys isn’t alive now.
he is cut off from the support of his god, and his spirit is equally torn from the nourishment of matter.
his fate must be the fate of the lost spirits.
It is a sort of senility.
blind ghosts
Haha
A senile mind trapped in a decomposing body?”
Which end will come first in this evil race, I cannot guess. But that is the ultimate arithmetic of demon magic:
“Demon magic—the divines say—invariably engenders more chaos than it ever produces order. The cost is always higher than the prize.
“demons thrive on misfortune and disorder; it is their nature, and the magic they lend partakes of that nature.” p.251.
Some who dabble in demons try to spread the cost to others and keep the prize for themselves.
True? Question
