Feb 02, 2009 22:37
From a WiP:When Cameron returns, it's in the truck, with John and there's a large mass in the back covered by a canvas which Riley assumes is the remains of the T-101, to be destroyed later.
Cameron pulls off Riley's shirt and examines the bullet wound, a couple inches to the right of Riley's navel.
Poll Wound Placement
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As for the second; I'm assuming it's you speaking, so you're not getting my clothes. If Cameron was asking, my reply would be different. Heck, if Arnie were asking my reply would also be different, but not for the same reason. :-)
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And LOL, your logic is impeccable.
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But even looking down at my own stomach, when I think "to the left of my navel" I'm sorely tempted to look to my right, putting myself in the place of some hypothetical observer standing opposite of me. And I think the temptation would be compounded if the observer isn't hypothetical, but a flesh-and-metal cyborg standing over Riley and treating her wound. So even the story would still be in Riley's POV, she'd be thinking of what Cameron is seeing.
But honestly I'm not sure where I've put Riley's wound in having written the above sentences, and apparently neither is anyone else; most people seem to think it's on Riley's right (when I wanted to put it, I think, on her left), but the people who disagree make up over a third of respondents (and even more if you count me, as I haven't voted).
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