Just curious what everyone else would have like to have seen included in the first 6-1/2 entries in TCTC. I'm not daunted by a thousand page book, so if I had my druthers, I would have loved (and wept over) a chapter devoted to Korik's return to Revelstone. I realize that SRD was trying not to destroy TC's unbelief by not having stories told by characters that were not actually with him (Hile Troy excepted), but what a chapter that would have been!
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Well, that would certainly be a fantastic moment to see. I can just see it on film, the two trios approaching each other in slow-motion... Blows being exchanged... Korik & crew looking completely robotic, whether hitting or being hit... Bannor & crew in tears as they are forced to slay their brothers...
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
Flinch.Fist and Faith wrote:Bannor & crew in tears as they are forced to slay their brothers...
Perhaps SRD didn't narrate this scene because he knew we would all "see" it indelibly from what he does tell.
Think of the scene before the slow-motion combat (in which Korik et al. have no less speed and skill for having no souls).
A lethal attack on innocent civilians in the farmlands just outside the city; a survivor with torn clothes and the glazed look of one who needs a caamora and is the wrong species for it, running to tell the sentries at the gates. The glazed look spreading as the telepathic signal propagates; the First Mark rudely summoned from private conference with High Lord Mhoram--perhaps even in the act of speaking of "his solicitude for the Lords' survival". Running to the battlements as though he means to fling himself over, until he sees (and, ye gods, perceives in health-sense) the three themselves approaching.
And remember who helped Bannor in this, the Bloodguard's last battle ever. Runnik, who had been reluctant to tell even the beginning of a tale that was not yet as dire as Tull's, now seeing its latter end. And Terrel, who had slapped Tull to attention (Narrate first. Grieve later, and when the civilians won't see!) to go on with a tale that only Mhoram knew was yet unfinished for all its woe.
How must Mhoram have responded! He had already seen all this, in a nightmare from which Terrel had to shake him awake: "Lord! Corruption will see you!"
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased.
--Spider Robinson
--Spider Robinson
On a much lighter note, when Foamfollower first arrives at Revelstone (with TC) in LFB, he and Korik greet each other as very old friends (just how many centuries, I wonder?) I'd like to have been a fly on the wall during their "catching-up" conversation after Foamfollower had rested up from the exhausting trip upriver. Pints of diamondraught optional. (Surely at three in the morning when no one else in the city was awake, duty could be safely handed off to some younger brother-in-arms for a couple of hours?)
Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased.
--Spider Robinson
--Spider Robinson