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I think 'Sali and the widdle pwant are distracting Castel from the answers she seeks.

I wonder when Pickle will understand that she can't interact with what she's seeing... If I'm not mistaken this is more along the line of an ultra realistic holographic projection...

This playback is about to get tragically interesting...

AmriloJim wrote:I think 'Sali and the widdle pwant are distracting Castel from the answers she seeks.

Distractions won't matter much, I think... the answers are about to arrive with the awful inevitability of a train wreck.

To very slightly misquote Zelazny in "Lord of Light": the fit is about to hit the Shan.

(That was his dreadful pun, guys, not mine. I can almost see him chuckling as he wrote the whole character and subplot of the Shan of Irabek into the story, just for that purpose. I never got the chance to meet him at a con, but if I had I would definitely offered to buy him a beverage of his choice for doing what he did. That, and the tyiga demon in the Amber stories.)

AmriloJim wrote:http://wapsisquare.com/comic/figured-that-out/

I think 'Sali and the widdle pwant are distracting Castel from the answers she seeks.

'Sali and widdle pwant ARE the answers she seeks.

Paul has a knack for gut punches, eh?

Well, this is interesting. The plant won't stay in the pot? Castella was mobile already?

Opus the Poet wrote:Well, this is interesting. The plant won't stay in the pot? Castella was mobile already?

as well as poking noses and eating brownies.

So our young sprout has been in the house long enough for the two of them to become playmates of a sort. But from the call to daddy it looks like the substitution has been discovered back at the lab. Yeah, we're about to see that grim day play out (how bloody it gets 'onscreen' is anybody's guess).

oldmanmickey wrote:

Opus the Poet wrote:Well, this is interesting. The plant won't stay in the pot? Castella was mobile already?

as well as poking noses and eating brownies.

And apparently covering ear-analogues as well, judging from frame three.

Eating brownies is possible, but not certain . . . A'sawi may have been eating for both of them.

Hmm . . . I wonder if the good guys realized that Castela/Wittle Pwant had been in the house? The way that's written isn't completely definite if "where it should be" is there or somewhere else.

--FreeFlier

My rational brain is telling me calmly not to let myself be vulnerable because the strike team is about to swoop in guns blazing... but my heart won't hear of it and just keeps going "AWWWWWWWWW THEY WERE SISTERS ALREADY!"

This is the sort of consequence you get when you practice a full embargo on "what really happened." If they had practiced a managed leak of "what really happened", this would probably have been less traumatic.

I wonder, if we hadn't already been shown what happened to Atsali's parents, would it have been more shocking to show us what happened as Castela learns it?

I can't really remember, though, was it originally presented to us as a resurfacing memory?

Alkarii wrote:I wonder, if we hadn't already been shown what happened to Atsali's parents, would it have been more shocking to show us what happened as Castela learns it?

I think that depends on just what she sees.

We've been told (or at least led very strongly to believe) that Atsali's parents were killed by the attackers, but we weren't actually shown their death, or their dead bodies. So, we may see something more shocking than what we've seen before.

Alkarii wrote:I can't really remember, though, was it originally presented to us as a resurfacing memory?

I believe it was an authorial flashback, rather than any one person's memory. We saw several sets of scenes (Leucoisa and Atsali together, Leucoisa and some of the attackers, Atsali alone in the locked safe-room, and then Leucoisa's coworkers including Foxglove). As far as I can tell, there was no single living person present at all of those locations, so it can't be a resurfacing memory from any one person.

Dave wrote:I believe it was an authorial flashback, rather than any one person's memory. We saw several sets of scenes (Leucoisa and Atsali together, Leucoisa and some of the attackers, Atsali alone in the locked safe-room, and then Leucoisa's coworkers including Foxglove). As far as I can tell, there was no single living person present at all of those locations, so it can't be a resurfacing memory from any one person.

It was a truly evil author, letting us think we'd seen the worst, felt the strongest feels ... and also making sure we know what Castela doesn't - what's about to happen and what she's about to see - so we can suffer even more this time.

Brilliant.

What if the family room with Atsali and Castela in it is not the nursery that the agents speak of the Blackthorn still being in?
What if Castela is abandoned there because the only living person that knows she is there is a broken Atsali?

Or the Foxglove knew about her through whatever creepy-mumbo jumbo she does and had her secreted away?

Or a step worse where the bad guys had tried to force Atsali to give up where Castela was, killed her parents in front of her, took Castela anyway, and was then she was abandoned when her kidnappers' heads left for the senate floor?

Dave wrote:Distractions won't matter much, I think... the answers are about to arrive with the awful inevitability of a train wreck.

Well, maybe the Library can distract Castela by revealing how the Fae who she tortured and killed when at the orphanage was actually there to keep her safe. . .

Catawampus wrote:

Dave wrote:Distractions won't matter much, I think... the answers are about to arrive with the awful inevitability of a train wreck.

Well, maybe the Library can distract Castela by revealing how the Fae who she tortured and killed when at the orphanage was actually there to keep her safe. . .

... which will make her feel oh so much better about life, the Universe, and everything ...

Dave wrote:

Catawampus wrote:

Dave wrote:Distractions won't matter much, I think... the answers are about to arrive with the awful inevitability of a train wreck.

Well, maybe the Library can distract Castela by revealing how the Fae who she tortured and killed when at the orphanage was actually there to keep her safe. . .

... which will make her feel oh so much better about life, the Universe, and everything ...

Leading to Castela-age-seventeen-who-has-Issues. But i can't imagine her turning on Atsali or Katherine.

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Predat or Bevvie?

I cant see her turning on them either but i can see her thinking herself a monster and bring death to those that try to take care of her or help her.

oldmanmickey wrote:I cant see her turning on them either but i can see her thinking herself a monster and bring death to those that try to take care of her or help her.

And THAT'S why Phix got Lily out of the way by asking her to go to her study, most probably Phix's version of a "Panic Room", that's out of the way and heavily fortified... while she herself cannot be injured in her Library she's OK, and the Library itself... well, it's self-repairing and the books go POOF when angry thoughts are around, so THEY should also be OK when Pickle FINALLY flips out and gets pissed at everyone and everything and goes on a Captain Smartypants Super Villain Rampage...