Juturna, the Missing Sister

Lee Berman · 28 Jul 2010, 11:38 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 07:38:19 -0400
Subject: (urth) Juturna, the Missing Sister
Message-ID: <SNT123-W43CF78AD396FE8AA73E1B7CFA80 at phx.gbl>

>Jeff Wilson- Isn't is customary for children stolen by fairies or selkies or the
>Erlkoenig to be given a new name as well?  Severa the apprentice witch
>could have been snatched any time she went swimming in Gyoll or had been
>left unattended for a few moments near the water.
>And Juturna/Severa could have any color hair under the alage.

My assumption was that, like Idas, all the undines have white/albino hair. The green
algae color wouldn't work so well atop a brunette. 

I put a lot of stock in the undines' claim to be daughter-brides of Abaia. The
Tzadkiel/sponge sexual/asexual reproduction model works for me.

I'm not sure if that can fit in with this scenario of Severian's twin being dragged
underwater as a child to be transformed into an undine. Some sort of Corn Maiden?
But if that's what happened I can certainly see her name being changed to match the
lake.

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