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Post by Refugee on Oct 1, 2010 1:46:34 GMT
As for an etheric presence....a gift like that from Coyote? Whyever would it *not* have an etheric presence? Exactly why I raised the question. On Formspring, Tom has said that Annie can't use it now, because she's not carrying it, and even she was, she couldn't get to it because she can't get back to her body. Annie not having it I can accept, but it's harder for me to believe that if she had it on her, it wouldn't have an etheric presence, just as the the blinker stone does. Ah, Tom's exact wording: Q: "Is using Coyote's tooth an option at this point?" A: "If she had it on her, Annie wouldn't be able to reach it since she's being kept from returning to her body right now" I guess I have to accept WOG, but I'm very surprised she'd have to return to her body to get it. Hmmm, what about the signal stick?
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Post by Max on Oct 1, 2010 2:04:52 GMT
I guess I have to accept WOG, but I'm very surprised she'd have to return to her body to get it. I figure that she has absolutely no control over her muscles right now; essentially, her body is a vacant shell. So she can't use her hands to grab the tooth.
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Post by jayne on Oct 1, 2010 2:15:07 GMT
Signal stick IS in her pocket.... she can't reach that either.
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Post by Chrome on Oct 1, 2010 3:39:12 GMT
Hmm, then it might really be down to Parley to do something. I don't think she's run out of powers. Then again, is there some rule about touching someone while they're in blinker-stone mode?
Also, another thing occurred to me. The stone acts like a lens for natural ability that's already there, right? Maybe instead of the tooth being a plot point, we might be about to see Annie figuring out that she shouldn't be as dependent on the stone as she thinks she is?
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Post by Max on Oct 1, 2010 3:57:21 GMT
A thought just occurred to me (apologies if it was already mentioned earlier). Since the chapter is titled "The Coward Heart," and Tom drew attention to Parley's heart, does anyone think it possible that Parley might possess the "coward heart?" I mean, it's hard to imagine Parley doing something like this, but might she somehow try and save herself and abandon Annie. Edit: Requesting the thread title be renamed "It Should Be Mine to Take' Sorry, didn't notice that until just now. I think I went with "Get down!" because it was the main thing that happened in the page.
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Post by aaroncampbell on Oct 1, 2010 4:53:41 GMT
Not gonna search for it, but someone asked in Formspring why Jeanne was guarding the Waters, and Tom replied she has no choice... I think it's pretty safe to assume that Diego's arrow somehow forced her spirit to kill anythingt trying to cross the river (or anything that just comes near it), taking some advantage of her anger and sorrow... This really made me thing about it and I can't help but agree. After all, didn't Jeanne say that her body was "ensnared" by the green light in the river? And didn't the arrow have an "odd weight" to it, as Steadman noted? All I can do is conclude that the arrow was definitely designed to trap Jeanne into guarding the waters against her will(!) for not loving Diego. However, it should also be noted that my tiny fangirling mind is jumping waaaaaaaaaaay ahead of itself (as it often does). Agreed. I thought that on page 779 she was standing as if transfixed, and after reading your thoughts above, I realized that "transfixed" is exactly the right word to use. Check out the various definitions, (emphasis mine): Definitions of transfixed on the Web, courtesy of Google: fascinated: having your attention fixated as though by a spell wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Rendered motionless by completely focused attention, rapt, entranced, mesmerized en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transfixed
Pierced by an arrow or similar weapon. Said of an animal. www.digiserve.com/heraldry/pimb_t.htm
(p. 243) to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror cms.springbranchisd.com/LinkClick.aspx I think that despite not being physically hit by the arrow, she was transfixed nonetheless...
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Post by xheralt on Oct 9, 2010 0:12:52 GMT
"The luxury afforded by [Jeanne's] death" -- freedom? peace? love? Especially in the light (no pun intended) of Parley's glowing silver heart (her love for Smitty). Love, true love, is an exercise in empathy, a good thing for an empath. As Heinlein once observed, "love is that state where someone else's well-being is more important to you than your own", this is also not, to my mind, something that would disqualify a potential medium.
Also, "in spite of" being a teleporter, Parlay was immediately able to join Annie's (forced) rapport with Jeanne simply by touching Annie -- which means Parley also has a decently strong telepathic talent, which may or may not be separate from her teleportation talent.
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