Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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A RED-ROSE CHAIN open thread!

To celebrate the release of A Red-Rose Chain, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book. Judging by the comments I'm seeing, some of you have had time, and I'd really, really rather book discussion (sometimes including spoilers) didn't crop up on other posts.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.) I will be DELETING all comments containing spoilers which have been left on other posts. No one gets to spoil people here without a label.

You can also start a discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun, and try not to bleed on the carpet.
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RE: Great minds

bree_ramsey314

September 6 2015, 21:40:42 UTC 1 year ago

Ah, not so fast there. Nobody called Lilly, Toby staggered all the way to the moon bridge and collapsed at the water's edge. It was her blood in the water that called Lily, and gave her permission to keep Toby alive, until she could grant her permission to heal her. Marcia's reaction at the gate gave no indication that she saw a woman soaked in blood standing before her, so she either:

1) Didn't see a blood-soaked woman, only the illusion Toby had about her, or

2) Saw through the illusion, and let this critically injured person just walk away. Toby said she almost fell half a dozen times before she got out of sight of the gate, so if Marcia had seen through the illusion there could have been no doubt that Toby was near death.

I simply cannot, will not. believe that any mother even marginally worthy of the title -- even Amandine -- could have stood that. She could easily have reacted, and Toby would have just assumed her illusion had crumbled, which it had by the time she reached the moon bridge.

Nope, I don't buy it. Unless Amandine has prescience, or the ability to sense impending death, there's no way she could have known Toby wouldn't drop dead before help got to her and, if Marcia is Amandine, she was right there.

RE: Great minds

marabett

September 6 2015, 22:10:13 UTC 1 year ago

It was her blood in the water that called Lily, and gave her permission to keep Toby alive, until she could grant her permission to heal her.
That was what Lily told Toby, when Toby asked how Lily had found her. That doesn't mean Lily was telling the truth, or the whole truth.

Unless Amandine has prescience, or the ability to sense impending death
Yes, if only she had the ability to find out all sorts of vital things from blood, such as the blood Toby was releasing… :)

Watch Marcia turn out to be someone, or something, that none of us have guessed!