is Bren's experience like that of a really really bad rider on a horse, or twice or ten times as bad...? He certainly seems miserable, no matter how much fun mecheita-riding seems to be to me.
Well, aside from the increased chance of being gored and/or trampled, it's rather horselike. :D Especially the accidental split lip (you can do that when jumping, if you're leaning too far forward when the neck comes up) and the going-in-circles (try dropping a rein sometime -- embarrassing AND dizzying, esp. if the horse steps on it!) and the intimate bruising. :D Though I have never been quite as saddlesore as poor Bren, I have also never spent hours on essentially a runaway horse -- mecheiti seem to travel faster, and over rougher terrain, than I've dealt with), and what I have dealt with makes it sound reasonable!
"I've never betrayed you. I will not, Bren-ji," has the same emotional impact it did when I first read this! In a language that judges by previous actions and future intent, how else to say "you can trust me"? :3
That scene hits me every time. :D Maybe if she knew that Mosphei' had a word for that, she'd feel less frustrated about how to convince Bren...?
another cliffhanger ending!
Heh, I was afraid of this when I was writing up chapter sets! I knew there was the chance, going strictly on page counts, that I'd end up breaking the plot into dangling chunks... And it's happened! (Wonder if that's a usual novel structure? "Throw a cliffhanger at them every 60 pages or so for ideal pacing"? Hmmmm.)
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Well, aside from the increased chance of being gored and/or trampled, it's rather horselike. :D Especially the accidental split lip (you can do that when jumping, if you're leaning too far forward when the neck comes up) and the going-in-circles (try dropping a rein sometime -- embarrassing AND dizzying, esp. if the horse steps on it!) and the intimate bruising. :D Though I have never been quite as saddlesore as poor Bren, I have also never spent hours on essentially a runaway horse -- mecheiti seem to travel faster, and over rougher terrain, than I've dealt with), and what I have dealt with makes it sound reasonable!
"I've never betrayed you. I will not, Bren-ji," has the same emotional impact it did when I first read this! In a language that judges by previous actions and future intent, how else to say "you can trust me"? :3
That scene hits me every time. :D Maybe if she knew that Mosphei' had a word for that, she'd feel less frustrated about how to convince Bren...?
another cliffhanger ending!
Heh, I was afraid of this when I was writing up chapter sets! I knew there was the chance, going strictly on page counts, that I'd end up breaking the plot into dangling chunks... And it's happened! (Wonder if that's a usual novel structure? "Throw a cliffhanger at them every 60 pages or so for ideal pacing"? Hmmmm.)