(Let's see, how much text do I need to leave in here before the automated preview ends? It's probably quite obvious what I want to talk about but ... that should do it.)
While reading GWP, I was struck by some of the details about Dairine's emerald bracelet. We see it mentioned in Ch 4, from Nita's POV about what Dairine is wearing to the Invitationals session in Antarctica:
(On that note, I love everything about the Dairine-Wellakh arc in this chapter. I love that Nelaid is just hanging out in her father's flower shop and going grocery shopping with him and teaming up to tease Dairine, I love that Dairine wears Wellakhit casual wear to events, I love that Nelaid is Dairine's space dad and Miril calls her daughter! I'd love to see more of this too. Just fabulous.)
And then we see it again in Ch 16 when Dairine uses it to find Roshaun in the sun:
Presumably these are the emeralds that Dairine picks up in Ch 5 of WAW when visiting Wellakh? But I'm a little confused about the details -- as I remembered, the jewelry came into existence as a result of Spot's spell, not as a gift from Roshaun:
And it was the necklace that Dairine kept, not the bracelet:
Cut to Ch 7, Dairine & Roshaun arriving on the Mobiles' planet:
And in Ch 15, when Dairine has gone to Wellakh to tell Roshaun's parents of his disappearance:
The idea of green as Earth's life-color was established back in WH, and again in WAW. Dairine could have switched out the necklace for the bracelet -- but where does the "Roshaun giving it to her" stuff come in? Was this something we didn't see in WH or WAW (so an entirely different piece of jewelry?), or is this a reinterpretation of the dialogue around Dairine's magical wardrobe change? Am I just overthinking this?
While reading GWP, I was struck by some of the details about Dairine's emerald bracelet. We see it mentioned in Ch 4, from Nita's POV about what Dairine is wearing to the Invitationals session in Antarctica:
[Nita] also noted (and tried not to show that she noted) something Dairine was wearing wrapped twice around her narrow wrist as a bracelet. It was a double chain of emeralds strung on what at first glance appeared to be a faintly green-glowing chain. But the second glance showed this to be not a physical thing, but a construct of pure energy: simply a single sentence in the Speech, impossible to read for the smallness and fineness of the characters, and elegantly intertwined through itself like braided wire.
And then we see it again in Ch 16 when Dairine uses it to find Roshaun in the sun:
Dairine daughter of Elizabeth daughter of Pearl and so on back ten generations and more to match his: Roshaun ke Nelaid ke Teriaufv ke UmrenAnd what if this
And it was the necklace that Dairine kept, not the bracelet:
Cut to Ch 7, Dairine & Roshaun arriving on the Mobiles' planet:
[Dairine] also realized that her clothes had changed again, back to her T-shirt and jeans. What happened to that dress? Dairine said.
I replaced it with your normal clothes while in transit, Spot said.
Okay. However, Dairine put a hand up to her throat and found that big emerald still there; she smiled slightly. Good call. Come on.
I replaced it with your normal clothes while in transit, Spot said.
Okay. However, Dairine put a hand up to her throat and found that big emerald still there; she smiled slightly. Good call. Come on.
The idea of green as Earth's life-color was established back in WH, and again in WAW. Dairine could have switched out the necklace for the bracelet -- but where does the "Roshaun giving it to her" stuff come in? Was this something we didn't see in WH or WAW (so an entirely different piece of jewelry?), or is this a reinterpretation of the dialogue around Dairine's magical wardrobe change? Am I just overthinking this?
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