ONE SALT SEA open thread!

I wouldn't say Seanan "cheated" on her own rules. I'd say one of Seanan's characters broke a rule. And I'm pretty sure that realistic characters break rules sometimes. :) (I'm pretty sure it's not the first rule *Toby* ever broke.)

As I understand it, the killing of changelings who choose human is a societal rule, a law. It's not a law of nature, where if they choose human they automatically die. It's a rule not because humans die anyway, but basically to keep Faerie secret.

Before Toby... before Amandine... nobody had ever been born who *could* remove all the fae out of the blood. It hadn't been an option to the law before because the option had never existed.

So yeah, technically, Toby broke one of Faerie's rules. But who's going to find out, and how? There is no changeling child running around with a memory of Faerie or magic powers they can accidentally let slip. The Queen's probably never going to find out, and nobody else we know of would have any interest in reporting Toby and seeing her punished.

What's *really* interesting to think about is all the parents of changelings since Amandine was born. I don't think it's common knowledge that she and her line had that particular power. If word ever got around...