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CH 26Well Lant is off to a poor start. I know he's young, and Bee is spoiled but he's handling this badly.
Perseverance says that Taffy said something about his sister, but I wonder if it wasn't actually about Bee.
CH 27I really like Riddle. I don't remember him from Tawny man though.
I guess maybe Bee is witted? She hears the poor bulldog. Or is it via her skill link with her father? A little of the old Fitz coming out. I wonder if he and/or Bee will bond one of the pups.
I'm really curious about the fat "beggar" in town. One of the hunters maybe?
Ch 28Fitz finally putting Shun in her place was nice. She really has to be Regal's bastard.
CH 29Wow. Crazy chapter. Now I really want to know who that beggar is.
WARNING BIG SPOILERS FOR THIS SECTION/BOOKIn fact I'll use spoiler tags just in case.
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I've somehow ended past the last set of 5 chapters. Oh well. I'm starting to think Bee has a combination of wit and skill naturally. Fit has to deliberately use both at once but Bee it seems to be just normal. On the way to the markets she reads Riddles thoughts and learns that Nettles favourite colour is green. Then with the incident with the dog she hears the witted communication between the dying dog and Fitz. So it's not just cats she can hear.
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Well Lant is off to a poor start. I know he's young, and Bee is spoiled but he's handling this badly.
Perseverance says that Taffy said something about his sister, but I wonder if it wasn't..."
Lant continues to be a bit of a riddle, it seems that he won his place in Nettle's, Chade's and Riddle's esteem but i'm not quite sure why. Perhaps we have only seen him being attracted to that ridiculous Shun of a woman so we don't get the see the real person.
Speaking of Shun, i cannot stand that ridiculous woman. i'm sure that's what Robin Hobb intended too. What on earth is the point of her?
Lastly, pretty sure the fight was about Bee too, and not Per's imaginative sister :)
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I was expecting him to turn up, but not like this!
David Sven wrote: "Oh well. I'm starting to think Bee has a combination of wit and skill naturally. Fit has to deliberately use both at once but Bee it seems to be just normal."
Hmm, not sure i fully agree here. When Fitz was young some of these two blended into each other and came very natural as well. I remember being very confused to what was Wit and Skill, which tells me it wasn't so clear either.
No-one teached him how to use the Wit, or the Skill, but the opposite happened, he learned to control his Wit (and to keep it out which he has been doing nearly continuously if we can believe his conversation with Webb), and he learned to control his Skill and put up walls to protect himself.
I think the difference between Fitz and Bee is just that he has learned to block things and she hasn't.
Hanne wrote: "I think the difference between Fitz and Bee is just that he has learned to block things and she hasn't."Ah yes - that is a better way of looking at it I think.
Did anyone pay attention to Bee's dreams?Chapter 14: "this is the dream from the end of my time....There is a wolf as big as a horse. He is black and stands still as a stone and stares. My father is as grey as dust, and old, so old..." it reminds me of the scene when Fitz and Co found Verity and his dragon. And the black wolf as big as a horse...feels like it is going to happen...In the future Fitz will become a black wolf... and one of the other Bee's dreams proves it. Chapter 29: "...from the gleaming mists that surrounded us, there burst a wolf, all black and silver (just like the memory stone)....my father was with him and in him and around him...he bled from the dozens of unhealable wounds and yet, at the core of him, life burned like molten gold in a furnace." The hope is, that Fool will join him and the 3 of them : wolf, Fool and Fitz will become one thing, just like the Nighteyes said once: "we are unite" and just like in that memory stone the Fool has left to Fitz... oh....
Tanya wrote: "Did anyone pay attention to Bee's dreams?Chapter 14: "this is the dream from the end of my time....There is a wolf as big as a horse. He is black and stands still as a stone and stares. My father ..."
yes, I thought it prophecized Fitz carving a wolf from memory stone. But no prophecy is guarenteed to be 100% accurate! I hope in the end Fitz and fool go into a stone pillar together and become one beautiful light 'conciousness'. Alone fitz was incomplete, maybe united by the skill, at the end of their days they will go in together and stay. Awwe. We'll just have to wait and see.
Me too, I'd completely forgotten that part though. ....my father is as grey as dust, and old, so old - It does sound like Fitz will actually get to have a very long life at least, unlike Verity. Hopefully the Fool will share a lot of that life with him!
LittleRed, your words reminded me of one episode from the Mad Ship book, where Kennit was unconsious and drifted inside the Vivacia's being and felt the other entity that was both of her and distinct from her:"The connection between the two was amazingly complex. They loved one another and yet struggled not to be one another. Resentments burned like isolated brush fire in the landscape of their relationship. He could not discern where one left off and the other began, yet each clearly asserted ownership to a greatness of soul that could not be encompassed by a single creature. The outstretched wings of an ancient creature both sheltered and overshadowed them, yet they were unaware of it. Blind funny little creatures they were, fumbling in the midst of a love they feared to acknowledge. To win, all they had to do was surrender but they could not perceive that. The beauty of what they could have been together made him ache. It was a love he had been seeking all his life, a love to redeem and perfect him. That which he most desired, they feared and avoided."
As I read it, I couldn't help thinking of Fitz and Fool...
Tanya wrote: "LittleRed, your words reminded me of one episode from the Mad Ship book, where Kennit was unconsious and drifted inside the Vivacia's being and felt the other entity that was both of her and distin..."Oh yes! that is perfect! This is one of the things I adore about Robin Hobbs writing. The fact she can express the 'spirituality' of deep connection. I love the description of when the fool first touches fitz with his skill fingers, in Verity's tower. I just wish fitz would surrender to the expanse of love he has before his eyes! Never was a man so blind! ;-)
Tanya wrote: "Did anyone pay attention to Bee's dreams?Chapter 14: "this is the dream from the end of my time...."
I obviously didn't pay as much attention as I should have - good observation Tanya!
