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Jul. 8th, 2002 06:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
strange_aeonsI can't actually take coherent notes about the WIP. I can write skeletal versions of future scenes, but I'm not ready to write a skeleton of this one. However, I can talk to people about it — and will do so, at length, whether they want me to or not — and this is close enough to direct conversation to work.
Anyway, I've been noodling at what happens when Rook meets Q're for the first time, because I had some ideas about it that I couldn't get to resolve properly. I finally worked it out last night.
Rook's blindfolded, because they're outside. I'm not sure why they're outside; I haven't figured out the events surrounding them picking up Q're, who they've left in some small town for some reason or other while Sweeney went to go get Rook (probably to hold their rooms in the inn, actually — which means it's probably not so small a town, because the only good reason I can think of for them to need their rooms held is a high turnover rate. Actually, they're going to need to buy more shit for Rook, including a tent, so it's going to need to be a not-so-small town anyway).
This song is curiously appropriate.
The first thing Q're says is to Sweeney, something like, 'Why did you blind him? Can he see?' which makes very little sense to Rook, but is the sort of thing she would ask — she wants to know if he has the same ability to navigate by sensing the numen flows in his vicinity that she does. Rook's heard enough of her voice to notice that its timbre is similar to Arunir's and Sweeney's, and he supposes from this, more or less correctly, that she's the same race as they are, leading him to wonder if she's also as weird-looking and monochrome as they are (yes and no, respectively). All this, coupled with the, y'know, pounding terror of knowing there's a sky over his head somewhere, is sufficiently distracting that he forgets not to offer her his hand.
(In Underground the custom is to touch hands, briefly, with different sorts of touches for different sorts of encounters. These people don't like getting into other people's personal space, and won't spend more time there than they have to. But when Rook tried this with Sweeney, Sweeney tried to grab his hand — to shake it, but Rook doesn't know that — and Rook's become paranoid about surface people and their strange forn customs.)
So Rook offers his hand, and Q're takes it and kisses the back. Rook has utterly no idea what to make of this, which amuses her. There seems to be something about him that compells people in this family to fuck around with his head. I'm not sure if Sweeney and Q're are always like this, but I know Arunir isn't; she's always cold, but not openly sadistic. Actually, I suspect Q're isn't either, since her behavior around him seems to border on outright flirting, possibly because he's (a) unusually shiny and (b) the most obviously harmless man she's ever met. He's blindfolded, for God's sake.
Anyway, I've been noodling at what happens when Rook meets Q're for the first time, because I had some ideas about it that I couldn't get to resolve properly. I finally worked it out last night.
Rook's blindfolded, because they're outside. I'm not sure why they're outside; I haven't figured out the events surrounding them picking up Q're, who they've left in some small town for some reason or other while Sweeney went to go get Rook (probably to hold their rooms in the inn, actually — which means it's probably not so small a town, because the only good reason I can think of for them to need their rooms held is a high turnover rate. Actually, they're going to need to buy more shit for Rook, including a tent, so it's going to need to be a not-so-small town anyway).
This song is curiously appropriate.
The first thing Q're says is to Sweeney, something like, 'Why did you blind him? Can he see?' which makes very little sense to Rook, but is the sort of thing she would ask — she wants to know if he has the same ability to navigate by sensing the numen flows in his vicinity that she does. Rook's heard enough of her voice to notice that its timbre is similar to Arunir's and Sweeney's, and he supposes from this, more or less correctly, that she's the same race as they are, leading him to wonder if she's also as weird-looking and monochrome as they are (yes and no, respectively). All this, coupled with the, y'know, pounding terror of knowing there's a sky over his head somewhere, is sufficiently distracting that he forgets not to offer her his hand.
(In Underground the custom is to touch hands, briefly, with different sorts of touches for different sorts of encounters. These people don't like getting into other people's personal space, and won't spend more time there than they have to. But when Rook tried this with Sweeney, Sweeney tried to grab his hand — to shake it, but Rook doesn't know that — and Rook's become paranoid about surface people and their strange forn customs.)
So Rook offers his hand, and Q're takes it and kisses the back. Rook has utterly no idea what to make of this, which amuses her. There seems to be something about him that compells people in this family to fuck around with his head. I'm not sure if Sweeney and Q're are always like this, but I know Arunir isn't; she's always cold, but not openly sadistic. Actually, I suspect Q're isn't either, since her behavior around him seems to border on outright flirting, possibly because he's (a) unusually shiny and (b) the most obviously harmless man she's ever met. He's blindfolded, for God's sake.
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Date: 2002-07-08 04:01 pm (UTC)I may have a non-flip comment later; at the moment I'm thumping my own WIP.