FOREIGNER: Discussion Post #2, Spoiler Edition

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If you have discussion points for Chapters 1-2 you wish to bring up but which include spoilers, please post them here. Then link your comment in the general post, so those who want to avoid being spoiled can do so!

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Re: continued from Post #2

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... O.o

I like the way your mind works! :D I'm a little afraid of how it works, too, but I admire it!

That is a really interesting thought, especially when you consider Banichi saying that Bren {having to defend himself} was a failure on the part of his security, and Banichi's tension over the next day.

Add in that Banichi and Jago didn't know -- hadn't been informed by their aiji -- that Bren was armed, and, well. Even if it wasn't staged, I think everyone involved underwent a major adjustment in understanding of his or her position in the association/hierarchy! (Doesn't Tabini look at Banichi rather consideringly when Bren says Banichi told him to lie about whose gun was fired? So even Tabini has learnt something new about the various lines of man'chi involved!)

Bren probably did not help matters at all by intently quizzing Jago on her man'chi to both Tabini and Banichi, come to think of it! Wow, Bren. Everyone's feeling the shift of man'chi all around them (except you), and you go probing into deeply personal levels of loyalty with someone you've barely met? No wonder Jago was so touchy and upset...

Re: continued from Post #2

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This will be my fourth time through the first book, so it's not that I normally think that way, but something about the way you phrased the "testing" summary made something go "click!" in my head.

I'm still not sure whether I think it really was staged or not. If it was, it's a little odd that no one ever admits it and Bren never realizes it, but then again, he was so sleep-deprived that he probably doesn't remember a lot of details from that night!