-- As Bren observes, later: they're running to "a man we think is safe" -- man'chi being surer than land boundaries, Association stronger than geography.
-- The scene where everyone hears the plane before Bren does is one of those small, perfect impacts for me. The way the mecheiti all look first, and the atevi, attuned to them, all leap for cover... and Bren, the alien in the midst, doesn't understand until he hears the plane and someone yanks him down.
-- Running for Banichi! Bren, you idiot, you perfect human idiot. *facepalms* Atevi run to their aijiin in an emergency, instinctively; and now you've just bolted for someone who's not an aiji at all. Every doubt they ever had about you must be boiling back to the surface! Poor Jago and Banichi, stuck trying to explain that their charge isn't a traitor or secret subversive, he's just so differently wired in this essential thing that 'insane' is the only way to make sense of it.
-- We're finally seeing atevi technical advances, and it's exactly the nightmare Bren has mused on how humanity tried to prevent -- mass destruction of persons and property using human-devised weapons, with no finesse and no concept of acceptable targets. That's one genie who's not going to go back in the bottle easily...
-- If atevi don't even swear in decent conversation, what does it take to make one strike somebody across the face? Bren's really put his foot in it -- in something -- somehow!
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Date: 2011-06-21 01:43 am (UTC)Some spoilerish thoughts about said revelations.
-- As Bren observes, later: they're running to "a man we think is safe" -- man'chi being surer than land boundaries, Association stronger than geography.
-- Spoilery thoughts about nicknames and Ilisidi! Greyed-out, as they pertain to the third (I think) trilogy.
-- The scene where everyone hears the plane before Bren does is one of those small, perfect impacts for me. The way the mecheiti all look first, and the atevi, attuned to them, all leap for cover... and Bren, the alien in the midst, doesn't understand until he hears the plane and someone yanks him down.
-- Running for Banichi! Bren, you idiot, you perfect human idiot. *facepalms* Atevi run to their aijiin in an emergency, instinctively; and now you've just bolted for someone who's not an aiji at all. Every doubt they ever had about you must be boiling back to the surface! Poor Jago and Banichi, stuck trying to explain that their charge isn't a traitor or secret subversive, he's just so differently wired in this essential thing that 'insane' is the only way to make sense of it.
-- We're finally seeing atevi technical advances, and it's exactly the nightmare Bren has mused on how humanity tried to prevent -- mass destruction of persons and property using human-devised weapons, with no finesse and no concept of acceptable targets. That's one genie who's not going to go back in the bottle easily...
-- If atevi don't even swear in decent conversation, what does it take to make one strike somebody across the face? Bren's really put his foot in it -- in something -- somehow!