Kalen Delaney
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Hi Lois!I was in a bit of a funk so I reread Cordelia's Honor and caught a couple of things that I hadn't noticed before. I will have a separate post for each. #1. At Ezar's deathbed, Ezar refers to the massacre where Aral's 'mother and uncle' were killed. I thought it was Aral's older brother. We never heard anything else about an uncle. Was this just a slip of the pen?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Early work, and I don't remember what all I intended. I suppose there could have been an uncle on one side or the other also caught up in the general deadly sweep, possibly Padma's father i.e. Sonia's husband. It was an extended family gathering, after all, plus the death squads struck elsewhere at the same time. Final version is mother, brother, and sister there at the time for sure.
Ta, L.
Early work, and I don't remember what all I intended. I suppose there could have been an uncle on one side or the other also caught up in the general deadly sweep, possibly Padma's father i.e. Sonia's husband. It was an extended family gathering, after all, plus the death squads struck elsewhere at the same time. Final version is mother, brother, and sister there at the time for sure.
Ta, L.
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