FOREIGNER: Discussion Post #4, Spoiler Edition

[krait]

If you have discussion points for Chapters 5-6 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!

Comments

[cheyinka]

It seems a human really could inspire it, because one inspires it by succeeding, right? By making a grand gesture and having it work? So Bren, the most willing to "go native" so far except maybe for Ian, is the most likely to be able to inspire it - but then he won't feel it, he won't have the visceral reaction to seeing someone else have man'chi to him, and he won't have man'chi to anyone.

I concur that the quartet leaving Bren unaccompanied is really strange. Like I said on the non-spoiler post, there had to have been a way for a gentleman to accept an invitation that included his security, but Bren didn't know what it was, or know that it was expected that he do that - did he insult Banichi et al again by not including him in the acceptance?