Urth Net
Nettle's motive
↰ answers Nicholas Gevers
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, [iso-8859-1] Nicholas Gevers wrote:
is said and done; Oreb accompanies Silk to the Whorl
again, as you would expect; Nettle ditto, because the
only remnant of her husband is in Silk, Old Viron is
her old home anyway, and her children are all grown up
on Blue and Green; Seawrack ditto, because she and
Silk form an archetypal couple once Hyacinth is out of
the way, and Horn (again) is still in Silk
Don't have the passage in front of me, but in OBW, Horn tells Wizer that he wants to see Silk again and talk with him more than anything else in the whorl, and "Nettle feels the same."
I think Horn is pretty much gone at the end of RTTW, and that Nettle knows he's dead. So with her husband dead and (as you note) her children grown, she follows her desire to be with Silk, not as a wife, but as a disciple.
Seawrack, I don't understand, but I think that Scylla knowing how to summon her is a clue. I'm guessing her leaving has more to do with the designs of the undines, the Mother wanting to send her to other whorls, than any attachment she has to Silk. Why Silk would summon her, I don't know.
-Rostrum
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.