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 Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 1:01 pm Post subject: The Power That Preserves, Chapter 12: Amanibhava |
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Chapter 12 is very much a transition point for the story.
Lost and wounded, Covenant pulls himself to his feet on a horribly fractured ankle. Poor Lena lies nearby, murdered by Pietten. The weight of the Land and his personal guilt was overwhelming:
| Quote: | Behind him, Lena lay slain in her own blood, with a wooden spike through her belly. Elena was buried somewhere in the bowels of Melenkurion Skyweir, dead in her private apocalypse because of his manipulations and his failures. She had never even existed. Ranyhyn had been starved and slaughtered. Bannor and Foamfollower might be dead or in despair. Pietten and Hile Troy and Trell and Triock were all his fault. None of them had ever existed. His pain did not exist. Nothing mattered except the one absolute question.
He moaned deep in his throat, "Hate?" |
He was alone wandering throught the frigid cold of an unnatural winter.
He marched despite the pain and icy wind, falling and climbing back to his feet with only a spear to maintain himself. Terrible dreams and harrowing pain were his only companions. He would continue his journey going in circles until he fell finding a bit of amanibhavam. It seemed to infuse or unlock some sort of power keeping him alive.
Perhaps by luck or maybe some subtle manipulation, Covenant finds himself at the margins of the Morinmoss and in the capable hands of an Unfettered One. Struck by both madness and exhaustion, he sought to defend himself and his ring.
This chapter has always made my ankle hurt! It is rather short, acting as a slow transition between Covenant and Revelstone but conveys some strong emotions.
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Oh UGH!! This chapter makes me wince every time I read it. Covenant walking on that shattered ankle. Makes me queezy every time.
The best part is when the Healer comes upon him:
| Quote: | "Yes I see--for this reason the Forest called me from my old repose. Injured--cold ill. And he has eaten amanibhavam. Ah, mercy. How the world intrudes, when even Morinmoss bestirs itself for such things as this. Well, the grass has kept life in him, whatever its penalty. But I mislike the look of his thoughts. He will be a sore trial to me"
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"Mercy," she mumbled on herself, "mercy, indeed. Cold-ill and broken-minded. I left such work. Where will I find the strength for it?" Then her deft fingers bared his left hand, and she gasped. "Melenkurion! White gold? Ah, by the Seven! How has such a burden come to me?" |
I loved how the spiders wrapped him all up like a mummy too. And we know that it was Caer-Cavaral that called her to him. Awesome 
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This chapter and this particular moment seems to exemplify how Covenant’s best intentions end with disastrous results. In the proceeding chapters we applaud his actions. For nearly the entire series to this point, the reader longs for Covenant to fulfill the expectation that he will become the unquestioned hero he is destined to be. Though he for the first time actively begins to take the Land’s fate upon his shoulders, his leadership has apparently led to a ruinous end for his companions and for himself. This was a particularly difficult part of the story for me to read. I agree that next to biting into a bun with a razor blade in it, the shattered ankle made me wince.
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Welcome, clearfrontier!! I don't think many first posts are in Dissecting, so you distinguish yourself already.
btw, I just bumped a couple comic book threads in the General Dicussion forum for you. It's been a while since we discssed that kinda stuff.
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Hail clearfrontier! Be welcome and true
and oh...that razor blade!! 
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| Quote: | | Dreams roiled his unconsciousness, giving him no consolation. Again and again, he relived the double-fisted blow with which he had stabbed Pietten. But now he dealt that fierce blow at other hearts - Llaura, Manethrall Rue, Elena, Joan, the woman who has been killed protecting him at the battle of Soaring Woodhelven - why had he never asked anyone her name? In dreams he slew them all. They lay around him with gleams of light shining keenly out of their wounds like notes in an alien melody. The song tugged at him, urged - but before he could hear it, another figure hove across his vision, listing like a crippled frigate. The man was dressed in misery and violence. He had blood on his hands and the love of murder in his eyes, but Covenant could not make out his face. Again he raised the knife, again he drove it with all his might into that vulnerable breast. Only then did he see that the man was himself. |
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I was just starting to like Covenant at this point, and then he went into crazy mode again. Sheesh.  
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