Cassie as the Ambassador's wife

Dave Tallman · 19 Sep 2009, 01:33 · from 2009-September.txt.gz

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From: davetallman at msn.com (Dave Tallman)
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:33:14 -0600
Subject: (urth) Cassie as the Ambassador's wife
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Roy C. Lackey wrote:
> >/ She could have considered doing that, but it might not have saved them
> />/ from other dooms arranged by Gideon Chase. She seems to have decided
> />/ that he needed to be eliminated very early on (after enhancing Cassie,
> />/ of course). This is under the theory that Margaret was Chase's shooter.
> /
> I'm sure I've said this before, but Gid repeatedly referred to the shooter
> with masculine pronouns.
I'm not sure how good a look Gid got. Also, isn't Wolfe of the old 
school on pronouns? He doesn't go in for the "him or her" stuff much.

> Gid also said that it is easy for a shape-changer to slip back "down", so
> easy that "werewolves have trouble maintaining their human forms at times."
> (100) Getting hit in the face with a meat cleaver is pretty traumatic, quite
> enough so, it seems to me, to lose control. Besides, within a couple hours
> of the shooting, Margaret showed up at Cassie's place and had no visible
> wound.
>   
If the shooter is anyone we know or see later (and it should be, to be a 
fair mystery), then they should either have an injured face or be of a 
type of creature known to regenerate rapidly. Werewolves in legend can 
heal rapidly from any wounds not made with silver weapons. We never see 
anyone with an injured face. So the shooter is someone we never see 
again (unfair) or Margaret.
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