FOREIGNER: Discussion Post #7, Spoiler Edition

[krait]

If you have discussion points for Chapters 14-16 you wish to bring up but which include spoilers for future books, 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]

Now that you've reminded me of that reframing, I wish I knew anyone in person who liked these books, so I could cheerfully tell them that I am turning completely twenty-seven today. :D

[krait]

Felicitations and good wishes!

Not to mention what a coincidence: you are much more fortunate than myself, who will be twenty-nine tomorrow. (Which, come to it, is an atevi number-workaround that would pass completely unnoticed amongst humans -- we often say "I'll be [age] in [near time]" instead of giving a number, when the time is within a week or two!)

[cheyinka]

Ah, but you will celebrate a fortunate birthday, with good fortune expected for the year to come, whereas I merely celebrated the completion of a fortunate year. :D

(I wonder whether zero is fortunate or unfortunate, and whether infant atevi are in their zeroth year...)