AEG: Margaret

Roy C. Lackey · 16 Jan 2009, 06:34 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:34:36 -0600
Subject: (urth) AEG: Margaret
Message-ID: <008d01c977a4$83d84360$efcf4a0c@rclackey>

Speaking of Cassie as Margaret . . .

After Gideon aided Cassie to bring out her "star" power, it is implied that
she was then elevated, transformed "up", to a state higher than normal for
humans. The text even suggests that her heightened state was somewhat
angelic, though not, I believe, angelic in the usual religious sense. Cassie
was certainly no angel.

So if Margaret is really an over-the-hill Cassie who wants to give her
younger self a second chance at a happier life, who went to Woldercan
seeking something she apparently didn't find, what did she accomplish there?
If, as Dave Tallman has suggested, Margaret is now a shape-changer, whether
or not an actual werewolf, when and where did she acquire that ability, and
was it her choice?

I mean, only humans can transform themselves; Wolders can't do it, and Gid
said he (personally) couldn't do it. (99-100) So it doesn't seem likely that
Cassie learned how to transform on Woldercan.

-Roy

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net