The selkies price will be to make the tithe to bring the Big Three out of wherever the tithe is happening (deep, deep Faerie somewhere?), but Toby has to make the ride.You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser The Luideag can’t volunteer this information because Eira likes it just fine, since she’s essentially top dog with the Big Three out of the picture.ģ. Toby’s is significantly more fae and less human than anyone (but the Luideag) suspects.Ģ. The hints are there that Amandine has messed with Toby’s blood balances when she was very young. Amandine pulled the human blood leftover from JANET to make Toby more human. Toby’s dad was really Simon Torquill, not just her sister’s. That would be Toby, whose mother has the epithet “The Liar” and whose grandmother is Janet.ġ. Luideag needs someone of Janet’s line to fix it –ģ. All of Faerie has been in some sort of bad stasis since Oberon and Titania went missing.Ģ.
We learned in Night & Silence how and why the Fairy Ride was broken, and it follows that Maeve is paying the tithe to Faerie. My insomnia brain was thinking about the long arc of this series, so bear with me…ġ. Anyone have thoughts on what the debt might be, and how Gillian is going to be involved in repaying it? So now imagine this storyline with both Connor *and* Gillian caught up in this debt of the selkie’s, and Toby being wrapped up in collecting that debt somehow.Īdditionally, it’s been pretty clear that the Luidaeg needs Toby specifically to help her with this–that means it must involve Toby bleeding on something and/or her helping to change the balance of the blood. That means that whatever she has in mind for the selkie’s debt, Connor would have been part of paying that debt too. Toby and Connor would have split up, but he would have survived. Nor can I see Seanan passing over the opportunity of the emotional impact of Toby being obligated to help collect a painful debt from her own daughter, because that was the only way her child even survived.Īlso, based on comments Seanan made at the book release party/book signing, it sounds like she originally never intended to kill Connor. The payment of that debt will not be kind. On the other, this is literally the buildup of *centuries* of debt from the selkies, and she is the Sea Witch. What the hell is going to be the selkie’s payment to the Luidaeg? How is Toby going to handle her obligation to be a part of it, when her own daughter is now a Selkie? On the one hand, I can’t see the Luidaeg doing anything too horrible to Gillian. Okay, so the one that’s getting me is actually Gillian and the selkie skin.
I am, howeveer, very satisfied that Gillian is finally starting to see the truth and realize Toby never, ever abandoned her.Īs always, thank you, Seanan, for opening this world to all of us and inviting us inside! I’m not feeling a great deal of sympathy for Janet – okay, I’m not feeling ANY sympathy for her – but I don’t really want to see her relationship with Gillian totally trashed. I also very much enjoyed getting Gillian’s perspective in the novella. I admit to a strong desire for the ability to reach through the aether and repeatedly slap Miranda/Janet, and an even stronger desire to see Tybalt tasked with ferrying the False Queen to Muir Woods via the Shadow Roads and showing up alone with an apologetic, “Oops, I dropped her,” but I suppose we can’t have everything we want. AWESOME! Okay, maybe I was a little hyper-anticipating – on account of my internet going down just after midnight Tuesday, and me having to stare at the icon for the book in my library but unable to open it – but I’m going to stand by my initial reaction.
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