# Poor Olivine

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Dec 2002*

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### Roy C. Lackey
*03 Dec 2002, 21:29*

>> Crush wrote before:
>> If one femchem was as good as another to Hammerstone, why did he leave
>> Marble and have the child they were making broken up when she revealed
>> that
>> she was Magnesia?

> Roy responded:
> I probably shouldn't even ask, but **where, in or out of the whorl, did you
> get such an idea???**

> Crush wrote:
> Call me crazy but Marble must have received some sort of information,
> between her warning that she would become an abandoned woman and her
> declaration that she **was** an abandoned woman. Since Marble was
> **abandoned** then Hammerstone has left her. In terms of logic, that is a
> "consistency by equivalence". The only information I can see that could
> have
> led her to that conclusion is what Mucor said - channeling Hammerstone the
> same way she spied on Potto in the house of Blood. The only interpretation
> I
> can derive from Mucor's words is that he is having another soldier "break"
> the child they said they would start on immediately (at their wedding).

To go from Marble's notion of abandonment to the destruction of a child
requires a leap in logic that leaves me in the dust. I can only conclude
that . . . hell, I don't know what to think. You must not have read the SS
series, for one thing. Let me state flat out that no such thing happened to
the child. Fact.

> Crush responds:
> I suppose its **possible** to play with the text to allow this, but it is
> hard to square that with Hammerstone's assertion that he lost track of her
> during his last 74 year nap. That pretty firmly suggests a change in the
> status of their relationship. If he didn't know where she was during the
> entire voyage and then he didn't know where she was after, he can hardly
> say
> he lost track of her.

And if Moly had been at Sun Street from Day One, and nowhere else, then he
would have known **exactly** where to find her. He didn't know. That's why
he said: "Maybe I should've gone looking for Moly."

-Roy

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