TheWormoftheWorld'sEnd wrote:I'm now at least 3/4 of the way through
This Day All Gods Die, and I am faced with another glaring inconsistency in the text.
The reasons for the Amnion wanting to acquire Morn and Davies have shifted away from what they were originally. The Amnion wanted Morn so they could study methods for safely transferring human minds into Amnion bodies. They only wanted Davies in return for the force-growing, as part of the bargain they made with Nick. Now it seems they have a way to use Davies against humanity - somehow. The "Why" and "How" of it is never explained in the text. But he's really only a human who happens to be force-grown, and anyway this was a technique known to the Amnion before Davies was born. The glitch in this process involved the transferral of minds. The Amnion want to study the effects of zone implants on this process. There is no other reason for wanting Morn having to do with the antimutagenic drug, since that drug left her system long before.
Apart from that, I have no problems with the text. It was thrilling moment when I sensed that Angus's "apotheosis" was about to arrive, but I didn't know whether it would be an apotheosis, a melt-down, or an event with similar significance. Well, ok, I always knew it would be the first, but SRD has a way of writing that pulls me into the story in a way that suspends judgment.
Now I'm biting my fingernails with suspense wondering what will happen next
To explain it all is not so easy--I blame SRD. I'll cover old ground to get to the point.
First, the Amnion agreed to force grow Morn's baby in exchange for a giving Nick the mutagenic drug, which Nick was immune to due to the anti-mutagenic drug he took in advance. But this issue became moot because Morn didn't lose her mind during the process and Davies development offered them an opportunity to create human Amnion better than Marc Vestibule. Call it the Amnion's human-kaze project. This never changed. What changed was who the Amnion had to deal with to get him.
They didn't want Morn at first, just Davies, because they knew Morn was under the influence of the zone implant (which is how Nick found out). Later, as recompense for the breaking of their deal with Nick that should have netted them Davies, and her part in it, they accepted Morn. That she didn't mutate kept them interested in her, and one could suppose they made the connection between her and Nick. As you said, the passage of time made her less important since the drug would pass from her system.
Their interest in Morn by TDAGD has little actual worth to them, but she has thwarted them (criminal to them) enough times that they want her controlled. You'll find, if you haven't already, that their desire to have her is not so strong.
I don't know if this answers your concerns. I didn't see this as an inconsistency in the text, but rather the result of priorities shifting due to events as they happened.
