That was totally expected and I was waiting for it. Others were too, I'm sure. No, it's not always rational but most humans in her circumstances would harbor resentment. That girl that was kidnapped in Austria and held for 8 years (and only recently found) had some resentment towards her parents for not finding her (like they didn't try hard enough). This is something that Sara and Jon have to work out.
After that, however,
The Bookies ain't taking any bets against the fact that Sarine is now wide awake and listening intently. Elf ears are delicate, sensitive, and at the moment, probably still ringing from that blast. If she wasn't awake before, she certainly is now.
So the next page is either going to be Jon's explanation or his cop-out.
However, we have a story inconsistancy. Early on, it was said that Jon actually came back after his mom died to arrange for the care of Sara. Now, she's saying that he never showed up. The only possible explanation is that he took care of things but avoided seeing her, knowing that he could never be her guardian and stay with the Wraiths. He may have also been honoring his mothers insistance to keep her out of assassin school (that failed) and getting her involved with the Wraiths wouldn't do that. Also, Jon may indeed be ashamed of what he really does for a living. His mom laid a really heavy guilt-trip on him when he left.
Rakshasa wrote:
Forrest wrote:
Also, this adds to my "Jon and Sara's family have latent magical ability" theory. The Ensigerum didn't just come by and say "hey who wants to join the Order" and Sara joined up - they saw potential in her especially. Maybe it was just something about her personality, someone they thought would be easily molded into shape; or maybe it was a more esoteric sort of potential, a kind that might run in the family...
That would make a _great_ multi-page flashback, I wonder why it hasn't happened yet?
from that text wrote:
From the rest of the surviving novices
Ensigerum training isn't nice. It could easily be characterised as a
hellhole. This does support the thesis that mage talents are inherent to the individual. If so, they are genetic and since they share the same genes, Jon might have various degrees of mage talent himself. But then, he might not. It's a dice throw either way.