Heeeeeeeey.

[bluebombardier]

Yo, where the fen at?

All the comms I've come across are diddly-dying. I just finished AFfC last night, and I'm aching for a substantial bone (preferably a femur) to gnaw on until the next one drops who-knows-when (probably once grrm stops watching so much damn football

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[sparrow_wings]

Warm milk? What? Remind me!

[bluebombardier]

Arya wakes up blind the morning after slicing Dareon's throat, dumping his deserting ass in the canal, stealing his boots, and accepting a glass of warm milk from the thirty-six-year-old waif once the kindly man disapproves of her ongoing identity-retention.

I was SO DISTRAUGHT after reading that chapter.

[sparrow_wings]

Oh, that! ... I don't know. Arya's survived so many cliffhanger catastrophes, I've kind of stopped worrying about her. ^^.

[sparrow_wings]

Oops, hit post too early. Um... I still don't know. Martin doesn't really go for reversible damage, and when he maims his characters by god they STAY maimed (hi Bran, hi Jaime), so I doubt if Arya will become a super-virtuoso blind swordsman like the guy from Privilege of the Sword. But I also can't figure out why the kindly man would blind her permanently, since it seems to wreck her usefulness as an assassin -- unless that is his reason. *shrug*

[bluebombardier]

I'm hoping that the kindly man meant it as a lesson, and that once Arya finally understands that the gift is not to be given so lightly, and ceases to lie about being no one, will he give her the antidote.

Maybe it's easier to forget who you are if you are unexpectedly blinded. Or something.