Cassie as the Ambassador's wife

Adam Thornton · 17 Sep 2009, 11:13 · from 2009-September.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:13:40 -0400
Subject: (urth) Cassie as the Ambassador's wife
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On Sep 17, 2009, at 3:28 AM, Mo Holkar / UKG wrote:
>
> This means, though, that she would have to court and marry Bill as  
> haggard old Cassie -- she has had no opportunity to restore her  
> looks inbetween? Unless you postulate there are also Woldercan  
> resources for doing that.

*THAT* part is easy.  That'd be "fey glamour," and it'd be basically  
what Gideon Chase (who, in my opinion, is a Woldercan changeling)  
does.  I think we have much firmer evidence of this than we do of  
manipulable time travel.

Note also that THIS would make some sense of that last weird  
conversation Cassie has with the former ambassador: he warns her about  
taking a sanitary napkin.

That made me go WTF for a while, but: what do the fey want from  
humans?  What can Cassie trade them?  Her womb, so they can beget more  
changelings, so it is in fact vital that she still be fertile.

In fact, if we want to throw in a time loop, then Cassie can be  
Gideon's mother.  How you like THEM apples?

Adam

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