krait: dark-skinned alien in armour (Foreigner - security)
Krait ([personal profile] krait) wrote2011-06-16 09:35 pm

FOREIGNER: Discussion Post #5, Spoiler Edition

If you have discussion points for Chapters 7-8 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!
cheyinka: An ateva riding a mecheita through the snow. (atevi)

Re: slight spoilers for later books?

[personal profile] cheyinka 2011-06-19 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
My point was more that it's hard to tell whether it's a seven- to ten-year-old being indiscreet (everyone's thinking "hey, Shiri's kid is as tall or taller than the human!" because that's true, but nobody's saying it because that's rude), or a seven- to ten-year-old being purposefully rude (perhaps as a way of testing whether discretion applies to humans?).

And, of course, at this point I don't think we have any reason to suspect that the kid might be that young - ten at the lower end, not the higher, is what I was guessing before meeting Cajeiri!

Ilisidi implies that Cajeiri was on the later end of when a "normal" ateva starts feeling man'chi as something distinct from parental love, so I think it's not so much puberty-esque as I guess equivalent for humans wanting friends' approval in addition to / instead of parental approval, maybe? I am... ambivalent about whether I want to see Cajeiri going through puberty, tbh.