TSK discussion | Beguilement, ch 12-19
This is the final discussion post for Beguilement. The focus here is on chapters 12-19, but the whole book is fair game.
Summary
Chapter 12: Fawn and Dag have a few more days at the hotel in Glassforge to explore their relationship, but eventually they set out for West Blue. Fireflies are persuaded. They stop in Lumpton Market the night before arriving, and thieves steal Fawn's bedroll -- which has the primed sharing knife in it as well as the shards of Kauneo's. Dag catches the thieves, but they break his right arm, so no he has no working hand.
Chapter 13: Dag and Fawn arrive at the Bluefield farm, and Dag starts to understand where Fawn has come from, and why she wants to leave. He also begins to hatch a plan.
Chapter 14: Sunny Sawman comes to see Fawn for himself, and see what she's telling people. Dag, um, escorts him out abruptly. Fawn has a heart-to-heart talk with Nattie. Dag then has a useful talk with Fawn's mother, Tril. Over dinner, Dag's age is finally pinned down -- and he announces that he would like to marry Fawn.
Chapter 15: The prospect of Fawn's marrying Dag ignites an uproar. The twins, in particular, are vehemently opposed. In the course of an argument, the glass bowl that Fawn brought her mother from Glassforge gets broken. Dag mends the bowl with groundwork and discovers his "ghost hand."
Chapter 16: Nattie tells Fawn and Dag about the Lakewalker who had helped her years ago. She brings up the question of Lakewalker marriage cords, and insists that they try to add them to the marriage ceremony so that Fawn's status as Dag's wife would be recognized by Lakewalkers too. Then she asks Dag to "lend" her sight, by matching grounds, so that she might see Fawn's face.
Chapter 17: Dag and the Bluefields go to the village clerk to register their wedding and all the official agreements; Reed is spotted hanging around with Sunny Sawman. Then Nattie, Fawn, and Dag make the wedding cords. Fawn comes up with an ingenious solution for keeping her own ground in her cord.
Chapter 18: Sunny Sawman and the twins have hatched a plot to get rid of Dag -- they mean to lure him into the woods and threaten to thrash him if he doesn't ride away and abandon Fawn. Thanks to groundsense, Dag is not fooled, and he manages to ensure that Sunny and his henchmen have a very close encounter with a nest of angry wasps. The twins have a very close encounter with their father.
Chapter 19: Fawn and Dag are married, at the Bluefields' farm, with several families of cousins in attendance. The string-binding works. After a wedding supper, they set off north -- to the Lakewalker camp at Hickory Lake, where not even Dag knows what sort of reception they will find.
It sounds like at least a few people are interested in continuing with the series, so let's forge ahead! I was thinking that we could do the discussion for Legacy, the second book in the series, in two parts: next week we could read through the end of chapter 9, and then discuss 10-19 the following week. (I think Ch 10 goes better with the second half of the book.) But if anyone thinks that's going to be too fast -- or too slow -- then please yelp in the comments. :)
Past discussion posts:
Summary
Chapter 12: Fawn and Dag have a few more days at the hotel in Glassforge to explore their relationship, but eventually they set out for West Blue. Fireflies are persuaded. They stop in Lumpton Market the night before arriving, and thieves steal Fawn's bedroll -- which has the primed sharing knife in it as well as the shards of Kauneo's. Dag catches the thieves, but they break his right arm, so no he has no working hand.
Chapter 13: Dag and Fawn arrive at the Bluefield farm, and Dag starts to understand where Fawn has come from, and why she wants to leave. He also begins to hatch a plan.
Chapter 14: Sunny Sawman comes to see Fawn for himself, and see what she's telling people. Dag, um, escorts him out abruptly. Fawn has a heart-to-heart talk with Nattie. Dag then has a useful talk with Fawn's mother, Tril. Over dinner, Dag's age is finally pinned down -- and he announces that he would like to marry Fawn.
Chapter 15: The prospect of Fawn's marrying Dag ignites an uproar. The twins, in particular, are vehemently opposed. In the course of an argument, the glass bowl that Fawn brought her mother from Glassforge gets broken. Dag mends the bowl with groundwork and discovers his "ghost hand."
Chapter 16: Nattie tells Fawn and Dag about the Lakewalker who had helped her years ago. She brings up the question of Lakewalker marriage cords, and insists that they try to add them to the marriage ceremony so that Fawn's status as Dag's wife would be recognized by Lakewalkers too. Then she asks Dag to "lend" her sight, by matching grounds, so that she might see Fawn's face.
Chapter 17: Dag and the Bluefields go to the village clerk to register their wedding and all the official agreements; Reed is spotted hanging around with Sunny Sawman. Then Nattie, Fawn, and Dag make the wedding cords. Fawn comes up with an ingenious solution for keeping her own ground in her cord.
Chapter 18: Sunny Sawman and the twins have hatched a plot to get rid of Dag -- they mean to lure him into the woods and threaten to thrash him if he doesn't ride away and abandon Fawn. Thanks to groundsense, Dag is not fooled, and he manages to ensure that Sunny and his henchmen have a very close encounter with a nest of angry wasps. The twins have a very close encounter with their father.
Chapter 19: Fawn and Dag are married, at the Bluefields' farm, with several families of cousins in attendance. The string-binding works. After a wedding supper, they set off north -- to the Lakewalker camp at Hickory Lake, where not even Dag knows what sort of reception they will find.
It sounds like at least a few people are interested in continuing with the series, so let's forge ahead! I was thinking that we could do the discussion for Legacy, the second book in the series, in two parts: next week we could read through the end of chapter 9, and then discuss 10-19 the following week. (I think Ch 10 goes better with the second half of the book.) But if anyone thinks that's going to be too fast -- or too slow -- then please yelp in the comments. :)
Past discussion posts: