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    "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1168",
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  "archive": "urth",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1168,
    "subject": "Perils of Agia",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-10-13T17:56:17+00:00",
    "last": "1998-10-13T17:56:17+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0019-0105@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Charles Dye",
        "address": "raster at highfiber.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-10-13T17:56:17+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Perils of Agia",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Robert Borski asks:"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "One last question for raster on the Claw's disappearance: when and how do\nyou think the Claw winds up in Sev's sabertache? Is it after the altar\ncrash, meaning that injured Agia, with her wits still about her, limps\nover, picks up the Claw, limps back over to unconscious (or dead) Sev,\nwhereupon she puts it in in his sabertache, because she knows she's gonna\nbe eventually stripsearched by the high nun of the Pelerines?"
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "Planting the stolen goods on an unconscious man would be just a little\ndumb, wouldn't it?  Especially if he also happens to be dead.\n\nAt the point when the Pelerines appear (and Agia finds herself in\nimminent danger of being caught) Sev is carrying her.  I suppose he\ncould've slung her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes, but that's\nnot how I visualize the scene.  She has her arm around his waist, and\nhe's a bit distracted.  A sweet disorder in the dress, etcetera.  In\nfact, between the girl, the fire, the loss of his sword, and the approach\nof the nice folks whose altar they've just trashed, he's probably very\ndistracted.\n\n(Could Agia have had some experience as a pickpocket before she and\nAgilus moved on to more lucrative crimes?  I suppose her failed attempt\nin Agilus's cell argues against it.)"
        },
        {
          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "Because I've\nnever believed Agia's involvement; if she's not looking for coins as her\nbrother suggests when Sev comes to visit her and Agilus in his cell, I\nbelieve she's looking for Sev's whetstone, which she knows is in his\nsabertache. Sev also doesn't notice he has the Claw until just before the\nPelerines torch their cathedral tent, which is, what, two days after the\nfiacre crash? Leaving me still perplexed as to how and when the Claw made\nits way into Sev's possession in the first place."
        },
        {
          "kind": "text",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "The Pelerines clearly know that that Claw is gone already (\"Will you now\nalso return to us anything of value to us you may have found?\")  But I\nmust agree it's odd that Severian takes so long to discover his new toy.\n\nWhat good would the whetstone do Agilus?  His cell door (\"merely wood\nbound with iron\") locks from the outside!\n\nraster at highfiber.com"
        }
      ]
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