>"almost as though they had come from the same bedroom?"
Such an interpretation will certainly appeal to those who have a Lacroix/Janette preference! Indeed, PJ has already testified to it below in this thread. :-)
For myself, I prefer to think that Janette had her own bed, and that she and Lacroix were independently wakened and drawn by the commotion and turmoil.
>"I'm not sure she wouldn't have left him behind under similar circumstances."
That's an interesting and potent point.
As Susan G. depicted so memorably in the flashbacks of her second "Dorian the Archivist" FK novel, Kind Soul, and also in her non-series FK novella paper zine Three of a Kind, I also interpret that Janette would free herself of Lacroix if she believed she could do so successfully, completely undetected, with no injury to herself.
But the challenge is always that there's more peril of injury to herself. In dire danger, Lacroix survives, and he does not forgive those who cross him. I think that Janette's interest in her own survival keeps her from daring to be perceived as crossing Lacroix, even at great cost to herself. She's even more trapped than Nick is, in that way.
Such an interpretation will certainly appeal to those who have a Lacroix/Janette preference! Indeed, PJ has already testified to it below in this thread. :-)
For myself, I prefer to think that Janette had her own bed, and that she and Lacroix were independently wakened and drawn by the commotion and turmoil.
>"I'm not sure she wouldn't have left him behind under similar circumstances."
That's an interesting and potent point.
As Susan G. depicted so memorably in the flashbacks of her second "Dorian the Archivist" FK novel, Kind Soul, and also in her non-series FK novella paper zine Three of a Kind, I also interpret that Janette would free herself of Lacroix if she believed she could do so successfully, completely undetected, with no injury to herself.
But the challenge is always that there's more peril of injury to herself. In dire danger, Lacroix survives, and he does not forgive those who cross him. I think that Janette's interest in her own survival keeps her from daring to be perceived as crossing Lacroix, even at great cost to herself. She's even more trapped than Nick is, in that way.
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