chenille

David Stockhoff · 28 Nov 2011, 16:31 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 11:31:18 -0500
Subject: (urth) chenille
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On 11/28/2011 11:25 AM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 11/25/2011 7:11 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>> Quick question, James.  If you don't think the big woman blitzed on 
>> something in the alley is Chenille, then how did the ring from Horn's 
>> body get to Dorp for Oreb to drop it in the Rajan's hands?  Horn died 
>> on Green trying to get to the Lander, the ring on his finger.
>
> Well, the ring he gets from Oreb is a different color. There are many 
> ways for the Neighbors (or even Mother) to get the *same* back to the 
> Rajan if that is what they want. The problem is that we don't know 
> what the ring signifies or does. The question is WHO wants to get 
> thing ring "back" to the Rajan is key. It stretches credibility that 
> Oreb just happened upon it. 

To the extent that the Neighbors are Faeries, Seawrack's ring is a 
faerie ring. So it's going to go where the faeries want it to go.

Similarly, I read the ring as I would any faerie ring. It identifies the 
wearer as someone who has been given a faerie ring (i.e., by a faerie). 
It doesn't need any other features or qualities.

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