Graybeard wrote:
Slamlander wrote:
Sarine, OTOH, seems to be truely curious. This may be an attempt at honest conversation that we're seeing here.
This gets to the heart of it. To all appearances, Sarine's objective with this duel is not to kill Sara, or necessarily even to dominate her, but to open lines of communication that Sara had been resolutely keeping shut. The duel may have started (at least from Sara's point of view) as a real death struggle, but as it progresses, the hidden agenda is emerging. Two mortal enemies are starting to turn into professional combatants who can talk shop, with transition to the same kind of uneasy but basically workable relationship as Jon and Sarine have enjoyed to follow, at least if Sarine's plan works.
Well, maybe a little domination. But then, Sara is much more used to taking orders than Jon is. In the end, Sarine is going to have to call the main tactical shots. This means that she has to get
both the Amraphaels to listen to her as a paying client. To that end, a little domination is good, nicht wahr?
Graybeard wrote:
The irony to all this is the peril that it's placing Sara in. If she had simply taken off when Sarine took the manacles off her, and rejoined the Ensigerum, her life would have gone back to normal, as she "passed" her second "trial" of escaping. (Of course, Sara doesn't know that.) Instead, she's in danger of getting co-opted -- which Anita and Paul will view as defecting, just as when Chris' father left. And then she's really in trouble.
I agree but Sarine doesn't care. She needs Jon and Jon pretty much indicated that Sara was a part of the package. At least, that Sara issues had to be settled. They are now in the process of
settling things.
That this will pretty much alienate Sara from the Ensigerum rapidly becomes a non-issue in Sarine and Jon's matrix and might even become a positive, giving their team capabilites that they didn't have before.
Jon is not about to let his sister go back to the clowns that tried to have her kill him. Sarine can probably guess this and is intervening, her own way. Sarine's way could actually become quite effective.
Elf search party meeting Sarine's team wrote:
Elf Officer: Peregrine Sarine, who are those disgusting humans.
Sarine:This is boyfriend "shoot the eyes out of 100 snakes before you can blink" and his "little sister of slicey death".
I'd love to se something like that happen. [sigh]