Diane of Tremontaine
Another post for Tremontaine, the prequel to Ellen Kushner's most wonderful Swordspoint. As part of #TremonTEAM, and as a prelude to Series 2, I'm taking part in the weekly challenge to promote Tremontaine and SerialBox.
TREMONTAINE
(Warning - contains spoilers for Season One!)
Diane, the Duchess Tremontaine, is a loyal and dutiful wife. She seeks only to support her husband in his most important duties on the Council or at the University, to keep a beautiful home, to be a charming and gracious hostess, and to maintain the good name and integrity of the family.
Appearances, however, can be deceptive.
She is perhaps more akin to a spider. She sits at the centre of a web of intrigue and secrets, controlling each strand of information with her schemes, and spinning plots to undo her rivals.
Like a spider, the female is far deadlier than the male. She will use her husband - the trusting, rather naive Will - only for as long as it suits her. She keeps him oblivious to her schemes and allows him to maintain the belief that he is in control of their marriage and household. After all, why disillusion him? What he does not know will not hurt him.
And like a spider, once her husband has served his purpose and ceases to be useful, she does not hesitate to incapacitate him.
Diane. Duchess Tremontaine. She is a woman of secrets. She is a woman who is not what she appears to be. She is a woman who is not even who she appears to be.
TREMONTAINE
(Warning - contains spoilers for Season One!)
Diane, the Duchess Tremontaine, is a loyal and dutiful wife. She seeks only to support her husband in his most important duties on the Council or at the University, to keep a beautiful home, to be a charming and gracious hostess, and to maintain the good name and integrity of the family.
Appearances, however, can be deceptive.
She is perhaps more akin to a spider. She sits at the centre of a web of intrigue and secrets, controlling each strand of information with her schemes, and spinning plots to undo her rivals.
Like a spider, the female is far deadlier than the male. She will use her husband - the trusting, rather naive Will - only for as long as it suits her. She keeps him oblivious to her schemes and allows him to maintain the belief that he is in control of their marriage and household. After all, why disillusion him? What he does not know will not hurt him.
And like a spider, once her husband has served his purpose and ceases to be useful, she does not hesitate to incapacitate him.
Diane. Duchess Tremontaine. She is a woman of secrets. She is a woman who is not what she appears to be. She is a woman who is not even who she appears to be.