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i'm a little bit astonished by the protective instict of the cat that is not fully witted to dutiful but to someone else (likely part of the pack?)
i would think that in time of need the cat would choose it's witted partner not the prince he is misleading.
maybe the cat really is sort of bonded to both?
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plus i'm stuck ill at home, not ill enough to sleep 20 hours a day, but too ill to be outside or work or do anything else.
first of all, on the introduction, it's good to finally see confirmed why i struggled to believe that Amber was the fool. The fool, being a white prophet, was unhumanly pale. And amber definitely not.
Which begs the question what really happened to the fool to change his colouring? does it happen after you save the world once? :)
secondly, the cat-girl thing finally makes sense. so there was a huntress who found the cat, they bonded but she is now dead.
we should have known. robin hobb showed us a similar case of the girl-deer earlier this book. which is why the cat is so utterly cunning and rational. it's the girl who rides her that is on a mission.
i guess the girl might have been killed the piebald way, and is big on revenge right now, making somehow a spectacle of the prince?
Sorry you're not feeling well. At least you have a good book to keep you occupied. Then another after that (The Lies of Locke Lamora)
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beaches and cliffs, could be Other Island?
would it be cool if the stunted dragons come back to lay their eggs and take fitz and the prince home?
or better even, if the fool would be riding the stunted dragons?
aa one can dream!
Rob wrote: "Sorry you're not feeling well. At least you have a good book to keep you occupied. Then another after that (The Lies of Locke Lamora)"
it's ok, i'll survive :)
i got the book now, but i think i'll try to finish Hobb first. i don't do well if i have to read 4 books at once :)
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at least one cool thing: dutiful recognizes fitz on some level. i was getting a bit scared that his treatment of dutiful would damage their father/son or uncle/nephew bond for the next 50 years.
perhaps it won't be that bad.
if only nighteyes could kill that hunting cat!
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also, poor nighteyes :(
please tell me fitz will at least be there?
seems like i was also wrong about that connection dutiful felt, it might just be the skill imprint and nothing more.
i was kind of hoping that dutiful might recognize the man from his dreams on some level
Hanne wrote: "ch21 - i'm a bit disapointed by these hunting cats, i thought they would have put up a better fight."Well they were on a narrow hill path with a cliff down one side, so the cats didn't have a lot of room to manoever and they had all the horse legs to navigate as well
Hanne wrote: "ch21 - i would think that in time of need the cat would choose it's witted partner not the prince he is misleading.
maybe the cat really is sort of bonded to both? "
I took it to be the cat was acting under instructions from whoever the woman is. It also seems that the cat and the woman have taken over dutiful's mind to a degree. I wonder if the woman is actually inside the cat like Fitz was inside the wolf in Farseer. There seems to be something off about it.
David Sven wrote: " I wonder if the woman is actually inside the cat like Fitz was inside the wolf in Farseer."That was my understanding of it.
That make's sense because in the dreams Fitz is following both the cat and the woman - but he never sees the woman.
Hanne wrote: "secondly, the cat-girl thing finally makes sense. so there was a huntress who found the cat, they bonded but she is now dead. "Yep - it makes sense now.
Hanne wrote: "ch22 - The fool, being a white prophet, was unhumanly pale. And amber definitely not.
Which begs the question what really happened to the fool to change his colouring? does it happen after you save the world once?"
I thought he mentions earlier that it changes with age in stages. His white complexion was his pre adult adult stage. Maybe his female form was another stage.
Hanne wrote: "ch24 - it is others island! and the others are still very scary, and possibly still pissed that their "oracle" has dissapeared by now."Just think, there'd be no context for this chapter if we hadn't read Liveships first.
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yeah. there is more to come too. None of it key to understanding what's going on, but certainly a lot more meaningful to those who read liveship.
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Coming in late to the game! I just wanted to chime in about the feathers. For the wooden rooster crown? Surely it couldn't be made of Wizardwood, could it?
Coming in late to the game! I just wanted to chime in about the feathers. For the wooden rooster crown? Surely it couldn't be made of Wizardwood, could it?
Daniel wrote: "Coming in late to the game! I just wanted to chime in about the feathers. For the wooden rooster crown? Surely it couldn't be made of Wizardwood, could it?"Oh yes. Now that wood be something :)
