Actually, the whole ring business is going to bother me until I know what
is going on with it, because it reminds me of something very strongly:
Thomas Covenant. Yes--Horn rapes Seawrack, and she gives him a white/gold ring with mysterious powers; as Covenant raped Lena, who (did she? I don't really remember) gives him a white-gold ring with mysterious powers. If it was anything else, I'd say the reference was obvious, but I so disliked the Covenant books that I'm really hoping that future events will convince me this resemblance is purely accidental.
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.